Joomla! to WordPress

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 20 Apr 2009 in Joomla!, Wordpress | 0 comments

Before you go from joomla! to WordPress you have to reconsider really doing this.

It took me about 2 days (2x 8 hours) and a big headache.

I only had around 50 articles in Joomla! but it was enough to drive me crazy.

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.

   

Joomla2WordPress import wizard with UTF-8 support

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 20 Apr 2009 in Joomla!, Wordpress | 12 comments

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.

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.

   

Bye Bye Joomla!, Hello WordPress

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 19 Apr 2009 in Joomla!, Wordpress | 1 comment

Well, today is a big day for me. I finally moved this site from Joomla! to WordPress.

Joomla! is a full blown great Content Management System.

It is very strong at many points. It’s professional, has many many plug-ins, is fast, robust and secure.

You probably wonder why.

Well I Will tell you that in this blog.

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.