I recently switched from Joomla! over to WordPress. One major step which was preventing me from making the move for so long was the export process.

Then I found a post on azeemkhan.info which had a wizard which would allow you to move the content over. But there was a problem. It did not support UTF-8 sites like Joomla! 1.5 So I decided to take this script and change it to a working script with UTF-8 support.

First things first ! Make backups of your old site !!!!!

1. Unzip Joomla2WordPress.zip
2. Edit config.php and enter all missing values
3. Upload files to /export on your server
4. Add Categories in wordpress which you want to import into
5. Open www.yoursite.com/export/index.php on a browser
6. Select either a Joomla Section, Category or Links Category
7. Select a WordPress Category to import into
8. Repeat Steps 5-7 till all of your articles have been imported
9. Enjoy and Spread the word!

If you have any problems with this tool, just drop me a mail.

Joomla2Wordpress Wizard (hits: 356)

This application is created for a wordpress installation not in the root but in /root/wordpress on your server. If your wordpress installation is in the root or in another directory (eg: /root/blog, /root/posts) you have to adjust the following lines to this :
Line 11: if (!file_exists(‘../wordpress/wp-config.php’))
Line 17: require_once(‘../wordpress/wp-config.php’);
Line 21: $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?step=2′, ”, ‘
http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) );
Line 312:     require_once (“../wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php”);
Line 441:     require_once (“../wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php”);

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Theo van der Sluijs Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Lead Developer at Unitrust BV. He is also creator of "I Am Bored So I blog" / Gebruikmaar.nl / vanderSluijs.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net. With his quote "Never Give Up, Never Surrender" (Actually stolen from Galaxy Quest) he fights his way through the day. Connect with him on Twitter.

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  • [...] You can read more about this Joomla2Wordpress migration tool in another post. [...]

  • [...] sem našel rešitev za UTF-8 kodiranje, a žal ni delovala. Iskal sem še naprej in našel skripto Joomla2Wordpress import wizard with UTF-8 support, a tudi ta ni delovala. Obupan sem odnehal, a se kasneje spomnil še ene rešitve. Podatkovno bazo [...]

  • Chien HOang:

    I have a same problem when migrate Joomla to WordPress with Vietnamese. It have ???? in word. I don’t know why.
    Here is sample:
    Trong các n??c ? châu Á

    And expected words:
    Trong các nước châu Á

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  • Hoi Theo,
    Ik kwam op jouw site toen het script van Zeem Khan niet werkte. Jouw script heb ik aangepast voor de locatie van de WordPress installatie (geen /wordpress, maar in de root folder). Connectie naar de database gaat prima, maar de export breekt af bij elke willekeurige sectie/categorie. Foutmeldingen als Step Three Query failed getting content from section ontstaan. Heb je een oplossing, want dit soort ongein houdt de overstap van Joomla naar WordPress inderdaad tegen.

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  • Hi, i have imported my website but it seems some articles haven;t completely transfered and the part after read more is missing can you please explain how they can be retrieved

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  • Please look into my problem if you intend to give paid support thats fine with me i have given my email id here

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