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WPBeginner» Blog» Tutorials» How to Easily Move Your Site from Joomla to WordPress (Step by Step)

How to Easily Move Your Site from Joomla to WordPress (Step by Step)

Last updated on October 10th, 2018 by Editorial Staff
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How to Easily Move Your Site from Joomla to WordPress (Step by Step)

Do you want to move your website from Joomla to WordPress? While Joomla is a good content management system, it is NOT as powerful, flexible, and user-friendly as WordPress. Often users might start with Joomla, but they eventually switch to WordPress. In this article, we will show you how to easily migrate your website from Joomla to WordPress.

Moving your website from Joomla to WordPress

Why Switch From Joomla to WordPress?

Both Joomla and WordPress are open source software. They are both written in PHP programming language, use the MySQL database, and have similar hosting requirements.

However, Joomla is more complicated to use and there are fewer extensions and designs available for you. On the other hand, WordPress is the most popular website builder in the world, easier to use, with tons of extensions and design choices. See our comparison of Joomla vs WordPress for more details.

Now when we say WordPress, we are talking about the self-hosted WordPress.org platform and not WordPress.com. Yes, they’re two very different platforms.

WordPress.com is a hosted solution that offers limited features of WordPress whereas WordPress.org is the popular platform that everyone has come to love and use. You can see our full comparison of WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to see the main differences, but in short: you want to use WordPress.org.

Now that being said, let’s take a look at what you would need to move a Joomla website to WordPress.

Step 0. Getting Started

The requirements for both Joomla and self-hosted WordPress are quite similar. You’ll need a domain name and a WordPress hosting account to start with WordPress.

Chances are that you already have a domain name and website hosting account for your Joomla website. You can use them for your WordPress website as well.

If you want to move to a different hosting provider, then we recommend using Bluehost. They are one of the top hosting companies in the world and an officially recommended WordPress hosting provider.

Step 1. Install and Set up WordPress

WordPress is famous for its 5-minute install. Many good WordPress hosting companies will automatically install WordPress for you. You will also find 1-click WordPress installers inside your hosting account dashboard.

Need more instructions? Follow our complete WordPress installation tutorial for step by step instructions.

Once you have installed WordPress, you will be able to login to your WordPress dashboard which would look like this:

WordPress dashboard

Step 2. Import Your Joomla Website to WordPress

Now that you have installed WordPress, you are ready to import content from your Joomla website.

First, you need to install and activate the FG Joomla to WordPress plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, go to Tools » Import page. You will see a list of import tools available for your WordPress installation. Click on ‘Run Importer’ link below the Joomla (FG) importer tool.

Run Joomla importer

This will launch the Joomla (FG) importer script, and you will be asked to provide your Joomla website information. First, you need to enter your Joomla website URL and then its database settings.

Provide your Joomla website information

You can find your database information from your Joomla website’s admin area. Simply go to System » Global Configuration page and click on the server tab.

Gather your Joomla database information

This page will show you all the database information you will need except for the database password. If you don’t remember your Joomla database password, then you can find it inside the configuration.php file in your Joomla website’s root folder. You can access this file by connecting to your website using an FTP client and opening it in a text editor like notepad.

After entering your database information in the Joomla importer, click on the ‘Test database connection’ button. If everything is entered correctly, then you will see a success message.

Connection successful

Below that you will find some additional options to control what you want to import. If you are unsure, then leave these options as they are.

Go ahead and click on the ‘Start / Resume Importer’ button to continue.

Start Importing

The importer will now start fetching content from your Joomla website. This may take a while depending on how much content you have.

Once done, you will see a success message.

Succesful import

Now that you have imported content to your WordPress site, the next step is to check for internal links that might be pointing to your old website. The Joomla FG importer will also fix that for you.

You need to scroll down to the bottom and click on the ‘Modify Internal Links’ button.

Modify internal links

You can now visit your WordPress site to see the imported content in action.

Things to Do After Moving Joomla to WordPress

After moving your website from Joomla to WordPress, you will need to perform a few tweaks to finish the migration and setting up your new platform.

Step 3. Setting up Redirects and Permalinks

Your old Joomla website may have a different URL structure than your WordPress site. This means that people finding your articles in search engines will now see a 404 error.

To fix this, you need to set up permalinks and properly redirect users and search engines to the new URLs.

First, you need to visit Settings » Permalinks page in WordPress. Under common settings click on the post name option and then click on the save changes button.

Changing WordPress permalinks structure

Next, you will need to install and activate the Redirection plugin on your WordPress site. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Tools » Redirection page. In the source URL field you will enter http://example.com/index.php/(.*) and in the target URL field http://example.com/$1 as shown in the screenshot below.

Setting up redirects

Click on the ‘Add redirect’ button to save your changes.

WordPress will now redirect old Joomla website URLs to your new WordPress permalink structure.

Step 4. Setting up WordPress Theme

WordPress gives you access to an enormous collection of themes that you can use. Themes control the appearance and design of your WordPress website.

There are thousands of free and paid WordPress themes available that you can install on your website. However, not all themes are suitable for all kind of websites and this abundance of choices can make beginners feel a bit confused.

We have made this easy by doing the research and hand-picking the best WordPress themes. Here are some of our theme showcases that you can visit to find the perfect theme for your website.

  • Best free WordPress themes
  • Best WordPress business themes
  • Best WordPress themes for bloggers and writers
  • Best magazine style WordPress themes
  • Best WordPress themes for photographers

Need help installing your new theme? See our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress theme.

Step 5. Install Essential WordPress Plugins

Plugins are the best part about using WordPress. WordPress plugins allow you to add new features to your website.

You can use WordPress plugins for backup, improving security, set up caching, start online store, and more. If you can think of a feature, chances are that there is already a WordPress plugin for that.

There are thousands of free and paid WordPress plugins that you can use. Since it’s easy to get overwhelmed with choices, we have created an ultimate guide on how to pick the best plugins for your website.

We have also hand-picked the essential WordPress plugins that you should install on all your WordPress websites.

Step 6. Learning WordPress

WordPress is fairly easy to use. However, from time to time you may come across new things to learn. This is where WPBeginner can help.

WPBeginner is the largest WordPress resource site for beginners. We have lots of helpful content which is created specifically for beginners, business owners, and bloggers.

Following are few of the helpful resources you will find on WPBeginner (all of them are completely free).

  • WPBeginner Blog – The central place for all our WordPress tutorials and guides.
  • WPBeginner Dictionary – Our WordPress glossary is the best place to familiarize yourself with the WordPress lingo
  • WPBeginner Videos – New WordPress users can start with these 23 videos to master WordPress.
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Many of our users use Google to find answers on WPBeginner by simply adding ‘wpbeginner’ at the end of their search term.

We hope this article helped you move your site from Joomla to WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on the most useful tools to manage and grow your WordPress site.

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  1. Pantelis says:
    Jan 21, 2021 at 10:20 am

    Great info! What I do not understand is: As we need to pick a theme after the import is complete why migrate the website and not built it from scratch in the selected WordPress theme. What do we win from the migration? Thank you

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 22, 2021 at 9:56 am

      It would depend on how much content is on your site, the export attempts to move the content while the theme styles your content.

      Reply
  2. Laura says:
    Nov 26, 2020 at 10:09 am

    Hi,
    this article is definitely what I was looking for given that I was asked to update an old Joomla website and I decided to convert it into a WordPress website.
    I have a question: the Joomla website is very old (Joomla version running is 1.5.25). Would this technique work even with such an old version of Joomla?
    Thank you very much for your useful articles!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 27, 2020 at 10:22 am

      We have not tested with older versions at this time but it should work.

      Reply
  3. Shahidul Islam says:
    Sep 1, 2020 at 1:56 pm

    Thanks for share this helpful article.
    If I migrate my Joomla site to WordPress then my all products will transfer from Joomla to WordPress or only the content & media will transfer on WordPress

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 2, 2020 at 11:07 am

      It would depend on how the products were added. If you reach out to the plugin’s support they can let you know if those products are transferred

      Reply
  4. Igor says:
    May 12, 2020 at 8:41 am

    hi, can i deactivate and delete plugin after finishing?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 12, 2020 at 11:13 am

      You should be able to remove the importer once you have completed your transfer.

      Reply
  5. Mustafa Kamal says:
    Mar 28, 2020 at 9:30 am

    is there any way to migrate the template too?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 30, 2020 at 9:07 am

      Not at the moment

      Reply
  6. Yash says:
    Oct 26, 2019 at 7:32 am

    I have a question, can i migrate my joomla site to wp locally?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 28, 2019 at 11:36 am

      You can certainly move your content from Joomla to a local WordPress site if you wanted.

      Reply
  7. Klyde says:
    Aug 19, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    Can we use this conversion process if the website has more than one version of Joomla on it? It looks like ours (I am new) has mostly 2.5.0 but some components, modules, etc. are lower or higher.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 20, 2019 at 9:56 am

      Unless we hear otherwise, it should still work. You can always test using a local installation on your computer: https://www.wpbeginner.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#installlocal

      Reply
  8. Caroline says:
    Jun 25, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    Our current website was built in Joomla years ago and we want to revamp it in WordPress.
    We want to keep the current domain name but we don’t want to keep the old Joomla content; instead we prefer to start fresh since most of the content is outdated, anyway. That said, I’d like to keep the old website “live” until the new website is ready to publish.
    Do I still need to technically “move” the site from Joomla to WordPress or can I just change the platform from Joomla to WordPress without importing the content?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jun 26, 2019 at 10:56 am

      If you don’t want to keep the content then you could create your WordPress site from scratch without worrying about your content. You would just point the domain name to your host once you are ready for the new site to be live.

      Reply
  9. uysy says:
    May 15, 2019 at 2:27 am

    Hi WPB Team,
    I want to migrate my joomla site to WP. But I don’t have option to backup my Joomla site before i start migration to WP.
    Does WP plugin change anything on Joomla site during migration? Or this is only straight copy > to WP site?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 15, 2019 at 11:34 am

      It should only be copying your content from Joomla

      Reply
  10. Javier Eraso says:
    May 7, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    Your guide is very useful for those who decided to migrate from one CMS to another. However, it is not accurate to say that Joomla is not as powerful or flexible as WordPress. I’ve been working with both for many years now and I can say that you are wrong. The fact is that WordPress is simply more popular and perhaps slightly easier to setup for very novice user with very basic functionality. It is like the Windows vs. Linux discussion.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 8, 2019 at 10:26 am

      Thanks for sharing your opinion on the difference between the two

      Reply
  11. Brad says:
    Apr 6, 2019 at 8:18 am

    Joomla was the platform we originally built upon, yet the difficulty with imbedding a customizable favicon became a real issue as the website looked incomplete, amateurish, with the seemingly unchangeable default favicon (a Joomla logo). Other WordPress websites of ours easily customize favicon images, thus we have elected to go all WordPress at this time.

    Your post is a tremendous resource. Thank you!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 8, 2019 at 11:43 am

      Thank you, glad our content was helpful :)

      Reply
  12. Vinny Hebert says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 12:49 am

    How can you tell people that Joomla is not powerful or flexible? At Joomla’s core, it is more powerful and flexible than WordPress and more secure.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 29, 2019 at 11:26 am

      We do not say that it is not flexible or powerful, it is our opinion that WordPress is MORE powerful, flexible, and user-friendly

      Reply
  13. Ronny Fretel says:
    Oct 11, 2018 at 8:08 pm

    How about a multilingual joomla site?? will WordPress support this?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 12, 2018 at 1:22 pm

      Hey Ronny,

      WordPress can be multilingual using third-party plugins. We are not sure if those plugins would be able to recognize and sort multilingual content from another platform.

      We would suggest that you import your Joomla site to a WordPress installed on local server first.

      Reply
  14. Giulio says:
    Apr 9, 2018 at 4:58 am

    Hello! Thank you for the great article.
    I have a Joomla website that I want to migrate to WP. I have no subdomains available and I want to install WP on a subdirectory of the website, then install the plugin, import all the Joomla data into WordPress and finally change WP installation from the subdirectory to the principal root.

    Do you think it’s a good way to do it?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 9, 2018 at 4:39 pm

      Hi Giulio,

      It will work. You can also import your Joomla website to a local install set everything up and then move it to live server.

      Reply
  15. Gjergji Kokushta says:
    Nov 8, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    Thank you for the article, but I do have a question: MySite has Joomla installed. As I understood, I need to have another domain+hosting where WordPress is intalled, so I can migrate from MySite.com to MyNewSite?

    Is there a way to do it within the same hosting account?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 8, 2017 at 5:46 pm

      Hi Gjergji Kokushta,

      Please contact your hosting provider. Many Joomla hosting providers also support WordPress. In fact, your account may already be fully ready to install WordPress. However, if it is not, then you will need to move but you still wouldn’t need to change domain names as you can point your existing domain to your new WordPress website.

      Reply
  16. Faust says:
    May 11, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    you have to test these migration settings on a staging server if there is issues involved.

    Reply
  17. Sarah Clarke says:
    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:52 am

    I successfully moved my site from Joomla to WordPress. Thanks for sharing this important piece of information.

    Reply
  18. monu says:
    Jul 23, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    I am very new to this field. I want to transfer my joomla website to wordpress. I have 3 domains parked on 1 hosting. When I installed wordpress for one of my domain which was working on joomla already, other website started working strangely.
    Can anyone assist me what should I do to use wordpress in place of joomla.

    Reply
  19. clare says:
    Jul 7, 2016 at 8:54 am

    Converting a hacked joomla site. Will this bring over the nasty that infected it?

    Reply
  20. Helene says:
    Jul 4, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    How is the current existing WordPress site affected by the import of Joomla data? Do photos transfer over without premium?
    Does having a copy of the imported data live on another domain affect SEO?

    Thanks so much WPBegginner you guys have been so great!!

    Helene, WPnewbie

    Reply
  21. xain says:
    Jun 6, 2016 at 8:25 am

    i have a lot of products in my joomla website and i want to move them to my wordpress site and i want to keep links for seo…
    How can i move the products not articles?
    kindly help with it
    Thanks

    Reply
  22. Amin says:
    May 28, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    Hi
    I have question, i have a lot of products in my joomla website and i want to move them to my wordpress site and i want to keep links for seo…
    How can i move the products not articles?

    Reply
  23. Faisal says:
    May 23, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    Hello All,

    I am completely new in this field. I find one classified template on Joomla. and its almost related to my requirement. they using plugins for DJ-monster.

    I am new on this. I want to start my classified web business on wordpress using woocommerece. can I use joomla classified template offline in my laptop and then transfer it in to wordpress or not. with DJ-monster plugins.

    this is the joomla template which i want to use.

    please your answer and guidelines will make life easier. as I am only the one person who investing limited budget on this business.

    many thanks in advance

    regards
    faisal

    Reply
  24. Alen says:
    Apr 27, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    Hello,

    great stuff shown here.

    I have a question. Is it possible to somehow “migrate” from joomla to wordpress if the joomla version is no longer online? I have everything stored locally.

    Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 28, 2016 at 6:22 pm

      Yes, there might be a few hiccups but its possible. Try to import your old joomla site into a WordPress installed locally first.

      Reply
  25. Josh says:
    Nov 26, 2015 at 3:36 am

    Hey WPBeginner thanks for a great article!

    I plan on moving my site from Joomla to WP but most pages on the Joomla site has a .html extension on the end of the URL.

    From my research it seems that it’s hard or not possible for WordPress pages to have .html extensions, only posts.

    Is there a way around this or should I just migrate the content and create the pages without the .html extension on the URL? I’m scared this will effect rankings and will take some time to get indexed by Google.

    Regards
    Josh

    Reply
    • Abhi says:
      Feb 22, 2016 at 8:59 am

      Hi you can use wordpress plugins to have .html extension of page and posts
      like the below one :

      Add HTML Extension to Specific Pages

      this may solve your problem
      Cheers… (y)

      Reply
  26. Moshe says:
    Aug 25, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    I want to migrate a decent size online magazine that’s on Joomla to WP,

    Can you recommend someone that can do the actual migration for me?

    Moshe

    Reply
  27. John Loty says:
    Jul 26, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    thanks for the article…I have, on the Joomla site, a customized theme/template…(home page)…Not sure of the correct term…I am assuming that I have to select or create a WP theme on the fresh WP site and that the import process will fit what it can and that I will have to make “adjustments” to get it all into WP?
    Is there a particular step to prepare for receiving content that was in the customized theme on Joomla? Ta

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 27, 2015 at 4:22 pm

      WordPress comes with a couple default themes pre-installed. The latest of the default themes will be automatically activated on your site when you install WordPress. You can import content from your Joomla site and then adjust or change your WordPress theme.

      Reply
    • FAD says:
      Feb 26, 2016 at 9:05 am

      Hi John,

      There is a way. you must need to implement and activate the theme and installed.
      Post that, you can see the latest imported content and with new layout.

      Let me know, if any help required.

      Reply
  28. Chad says:
    Jul 16, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Hi There, will this plugin allow me to import my members list from Joomla to WordPress?

    Reply
    • Michael says:
      Oct 26, 2015 at 4:21 pm

      Any answer here? Can I import the member list from Joomla to WordPress if I use this plug-in?

      Reply
      • FAD says:
        Feb 26, 2016 at 9:07 am

        Hi MICHAEL,

        Yes, you can import members. Might need to go for premium plugin.
        Let me know, if any doubts.

        Regards,
        FAD.,

        Reply
  29. Arbel Martin says:
    Jun 4, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    This looks great!

    Was wondering if by importing the Joomla site, if it erases all the data from the Joomla site.

    For instance,

    I would like to create a copy of the joomla site on a test WordPress domain and edit it. Once the site is ready to replace the original Joomla site, then I would point it to the WordPress site.

    Would this be possible with this method?

    Thank you!
    -Arbel

    Reply
    • Helene says:
      Jul 4, 2016 at 4:57 pm

      Did you get an answer?
      Thanks!! ☺
      Helene

      Reply
  30. Riska Glenn says:
    Mar 25, 2015 at 12:17 am

    Thanks for sharing, this article help me to migrating

    I was install wordpress on mydomain/dir and completely import content from Joomla using FG joomla to wordpress plugin. My question, how to move all content and database to public directory?
    Did you have article about it?
    Thanks before

    Reply
  31. Lyle says:
    Mar 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    Thank you so much for the link to the FG Joomla! to WordPress plugin!

    Worked like a charm to import my 292 J! articles into my WP posts. Easy, quick and perfect!

    Reply
  32. jyoti says:
    Feb 23, 2015 at 5:34 am

    which version are you talking about?

    Reply
  33. Abdo says:
    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:50 am

    my is Joomla 2.5 and the import required a password..where i can find

    Reply
  34. Laureleye says:
    Nov 17, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Do modules transfer with the other content? If not, do you have any recommendations on how to transfer modules from Joomla to a WordPress page?

    Reply
    • Scott says:
      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:03 am

      I don’t think this is possible.

      Reply
  35. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Nov 2, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    Yes, once you have imported your content from you can delete the importer plugin.

    Reply
  36. hummble says:
    Nov 2, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Again, might be a silly question but I am new-ish to WP. I have my site all migrated and set up with content (mostly) as I want it for now. Moved my old joomla site to a protected folder on the same server just in case I should ever need to refer to it again.

    Now my plugin manager keeps bugging me that there is a new version of the Joomla to WordPress available. But I shouldn’t need that, right? I’m all done with it. Can I delete the plugin without messing with the data it migrated for me?

    Reply
  37. sushant says:
    Oct 1, 2014 at 6:43 am

    can i migrate database from joomla to wordpress? If so, how?

    Reply
  38. Ru says:
    Jul 8, 2014 at 3:11 am

    if i import my website from Joomla to WordPress, the Joomla site will exist or will be automatically deleted?

    Reply
    • prabin04 says:
      Jan 1, 2015 at 2:59 am

      well, import doesn’t mean move .. so your site will exist

      Reply
  39. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Jun 16, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    You will need access to either phpMyAdmin on the server, or FTP access to modify configuration file.

    Reply
  40. Johny says:
    Jun 16, 2014 at 11:31 am

    May be dumb question but I only have access to Joomla Admin panel, not the installation directory. Is there a way to find DB password from admin panel without having access to configuration file?

    Reply
    • Perry Mensah says:
      Jul 25, 2014 at 8:42 am

      You can install an extension for joomla file system. com_extplorer can do it for you.

      Reply
  41. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Apr 24, 2014 at 10:54 am

    Linda at the end of the import process you can fix your internal links by clicking on the modify internal links button.

    Reply
  42. linda says:
    Apr 23, 2014 at 3:57 am

    maybe a dumb question, but how do I make the url go to my new wp-site instead of my old-joomla one? I guess I have to change that somewhere in my webhosting. But where?

    Reply
  43. Karen says:
    Apr 11, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Are there any issues with moving a Joomla site to WordPress on my local server to do development and then moving the new site back to replace the old site?

    Reply
  44. Kuba says:
    Mar 30, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Only 1 item imported but joomla site contain many articles. My Joomla version is 3.2.1

    Reply
  45. H. Olden says:
    Mar 21, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    This is a great add to your articles and it worked like a charm. In fact, imported 5 years of data off my old Joomla 1.5 install and brought the site back up on WP. Thanks for posting…

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 21, 2014 at 3:45 pm

      We are glad that you found it useful. Thanks for the feedback.

      Reply
  46. Dani M says:
    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Do you know if there is a way of exporting the look and feel of the site not just the info?

    Reply
  47. chrys says:
    Feb 19, 2014 at 11:11 am

    Hi,

    I read in the previous comments that it’s better to have a new database when migrating on the same server. But what does it mean? If my host only provide me with one database, I’ll buy another and when I install wordpress in a new directory I give the details of the new database and when migrating joomla I give the joomla database code in the plugin. Thoses database are completely independent aren’t they? Then I move up the wordpress directory at the root and I’m done? All my content will have gone on my new database won’t it?

    By doing that, assuming I have kept the same domain name, I guess only my wordpress site will be live, but what about the old links that are still visible on google? Don’t I risk a duplicate content and be blacklisted? i’m a bit confused..
    Thanks !

    Reply
  48. crooso says:
    Feb 7, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    i have joomla site, i need convert all them to wordpress.
    can i do export ALL THE THINGS into wordpress without deleting joomla site,

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 9, 2014 at 10:13 pm

      Yes you can and you should first import everything in WordPress. If you deleted your Joomla site before starting then you will not be able to import anything.

      Reply
  49. babu says:
    Jan 24, 2014 at 5:53 am

    hi iam nagababu i want to Migrate my existing Joomla website (1.5) to WordPress and i have one question can you please help me

    First what i have to do
    may i need to uninstall Joomla and fresh installation Of wordpress in existing domain

    Can you please clarify this

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 24, 2014 at 3:39 pm

      If you have joomla installed on the location where you would want to install WordPress then the best way to go is to create a new directory and then install WordPress in that directory. Once you have successfully migrated your Joomla site you can change your Domain’s settings to point to to the directory where WordPress is installed.

      Reply
      • Kannan says:
        Dec 3, 2015 at 9:52 am

        Hi there,

        When you say a new directory, do you mean a new folder under public_html? Thank you.

        Reply
        • WPBeginner Support says:
          Dec 4, 2015 at 8:36 am

          Yes.

  50. Anoo says:
    Jan 18, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    Thanks for this article ! Great Job !!

    I have little different issue here,I’m facing a technical confusion !

    Problem
    One of our client want to purchase a WordPress theme and do a fresh installation on server ! (This can be done easliy)
    but the old website is working with joomla and it has around 8 other websites running on its “subfolder”
    eg : http://www.example.com ( main web) , http://www.example.com/abcd, http://www.example.com/1234 etc
    all web is working on joomla.

    This is sort of redirection done !

    My task
    I have to install and develop the main web ,and connect the other webs as it is

    how to reconnect the sub installations on WordPress ?

    eg : http://www.example.com ( will run on wordpress ) but can’t change the subdomains which is running on joomla

    it should work as http://www.example.com/abcd even after the installation

    What hosting people told me
    They said, i can’t do this because different platforms , but there should be a solution right ?

    Could you help me ?

    Thanks in advance !

    Links : (http://www.nispana.com) has to install wordpress , Sub domain, can’t change any installation (http://www.nispana.com/buildindiasummit/)

    Reply
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