Joomla to WordPress Migration
Joomla to WordPress migration is incredibly easy with LitExtension. You can transfer important data such as products, product catalogs, customers, orders, and more from Joomla to WordPress in just three simple steps. If you’re unsure how to retrieve, review, and test the data after migration, you can completely entrust the work to us. With many years of experience in website migration, our WordPress Migration experts are confident in providing you with the fastest and most accurate migration experience. Discover how it works now!
Why Should You Choose WordPress?
While both Joomla and WordPress are powerful CMS platforms, WordPress has consistently outpaced Joomla in terms of popularity, user-friendliness, and community support. Here’s a breakdown of key factors that highlight why migrating from Joomla to WordPress is a strategic decision:
Ease of Use
WordPress is known for its intuitive interface and simple learning curve. The platform is designed to be user-friendly, even for beginners. The dashboard layout is clean and logical, making it easy to navigate and manage content. In contrast, while Joomla has improved its user interface over the years, it still requires a steeper learning curve compared to WordPress. Its more complex backend can be daunting for those new to CMS platforms, often requiring more technical expertise to accomplish basic tasks.
eCommerce Features
WordPress takes the lead with WooCommerce, offering a robust and flexible eCommerce platform. As the most popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce powers millions of online stores and provides extensive features for selling both physical and digital products. Joomla, while capable of eCommerce through various extensions, doesn’t offer solutions as widely used or feature-rich as WooCommerce. The available options often lack the seamless integration and comprehensive functionality that WordPress users enjoy.
Community Support
WordPress boasts a massive and active community of developers, designers, and users. This translates to a wealth of resources, including tutorials, forums, and plugins. When you encounter an issue, solutions are typically just a quick search away. While Joomla has a dedicated community, it’s significantly smaller than WordPress’s. This can sometimes lead to fewer resources and slower support response times, making problem-solving more challenging.
Plugin Ecosystem
WordPress offers a vast repository of over 58,000 free and premium plugins, allowing you to extend your website’s functionality with ease. Whether you need e-commerce, SEO, security, or social media integration, there’s a plugin for it. Each plugin is well-documented and regularly updated. Joomla, while having a decent plugin library, cannot match WordPress’s extensive ecosystem. You may find fewer options for specific functionalities, especially niche ones, limiting your website’s potential expansion.
SEO
WordPress provides strong SEO capabilities out of the box and integrates seamlessly with popular SEO plugins like Yoast SEO. It’s highly customizable, allowing you to optimize your website for search engines effectively. Every aspect of SEO can be fine-tuned, from meta descriptions to XML sitemaps. While Joomla can be optimized for SEO, it may require more technical expertise and configuration. The available SEO extensions aren’t as comprehensive or user-friendly as those found in WordPress.
Security
WordPress benefits from a large community that constantly monitors for vulnerabilities and releases security updates promptly. Regular updates and strong security practices are essential to protect your website, and WordPress makes this process straightforward. While Joomla has a dedicated security team, it may not always be as proactive as the WordPress community in addressing security threats. The smaller developer community can sometimes mean slower responses to emerging security issues.
Content Management
WordPress offers intuitive content management tools, making it easy to create and edit posts, pages, and other content. The platform excels at organizing content with categories, tags, and custom taxonomies. It’s particularly well-suited for bloggers and content creators who need to manage large amounts of content efficiently. While Joomla provides robust content management features, its interface can be more complex, especially for beginners. The learning curve for managing content effectively in Joomla is steeper, potentially slowing down your content creation process.
What Data Can Be Migrated From Joomla to WordPress
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- Title.
- Created Date.
- Description.
- Categories.
- Thumbnail Image.
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- Title.
- Created Date.
- Description.
- Categories.
- Thumbnail Image.
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Products
- Name, SKU, Short Description, Full Description, Status.
- Manufacturer.
- Tax Class.
- Price, Special Price.
- Quantity, Manage Stock.
- Meta Title, Meta Description.
- Weight, Width, Height, Depth.
- Product Tags.
- Up-sells, Cross-sells.
- Attributes: Name, Values.
- Downloadable Products: Files, Max Downloads, Expiration Date.
- Grouped Products: Associated Products.
- Variants: Name, SKU, Weight, Quantity, Manage Stock, Image, Price, Special Price.
- Thumbnail Image, Additional Images.
Product Categories
- Name, Description.
- Sort Order.
- Image.
- Meta Title, Meta Description.
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- First Name, Last Name, Email.
- Billing Address: First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone.
- Shipping Address: First Name, Last NameCompany, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone.
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- Order ID.
- Order Date.
- Order Status.
- Order Items (Name, SKU, Option), Product Price, Quantity.
- Sub Price, Discount Price, Tax Price, Shipping Price, Total Price.
- Order Comments.
- Customer Name, Email.
- Billing Address (First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone).
- Shipping Address (First Name , Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone)
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- Name.
- Image.
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- Tax Class (Name).
- Tax rate (Country, Rate).
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- Name.
- Description.
- Coupon Code.
- Coupon Date.
- Customer Groups.
- Uses Per Coupon, Uses Per Customer.
- Discount Amount/Percent.
- Coupon from date, Coupon to date.
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- Created Date.
- Status.
- Rate.
- User Name, User Email.
- Comment.
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- Products (Name, Description, Attribute)
- Categories (Name, Description)
- CMS Page (Name, Description)
- Blogs (Name, Description)
Note: Additional fee may apply
(*) Please note that if you want to import store data other than CMS/Blogs, plugins may need to be installed before migration.
Additional Options
Clear Sample Data On WordPress Before Migration
You can delete the sample data on WordPress in accordance with selected entities for migration… More Details →
Preserve Order IDs on WordPress Store
This option helps keep your order ID the same during your store migration… More Details →
Create 301 Redirects on WordPress Store
Automatically redirect your old store’s URLs to the new ones during the migration… More Details →
Migrate Images from Products, Categories, Blog Descriptions
This option helps you to migrate images in descriptions of products, categories, and blog posts… Mre Details →
Strip HTML Tags from Category and Product Names
Strip HTML tags from category and product names automatically when migrating your store … More Details →
How to Perform Joomla to WordPress Migration
LitExtension offers Joomla to WordPress migration services that efficiently transfer your critical data, including products, customer details, orders, and blogs. The Joomla to WordPress migration process is designed to be automatic, secure, and precise, completed in only three simple steps.
LitExtension WordPress Migration Experts
Our WordPress specialists will take into account your distinct requirements, offering necessary guidance to fully prepare for the Joomla to WordPress migration.
Prior to migration, establish your WordPress store, install the necessary apps, and configure the environment accordingly.
Begin the Joomla WordPress migration, and once it’s in motion, it will keep running continuously, regardless of your browser status.
Both Joomla and WordPress are CMSs, meaning that they are mostly designed for blogging purposes.
With Joomla, its built-in eCommerce features enable you to manage your content and your online store in the same place. WordPress, on the other hand, requires you to install an eCommerce-specific plugin such as WooCommerce to start selling online.
Therefore, if you’re purely using Joomla as a blogging platform, then you should turn to the FG Joomla to WordPress plugin to transfer all your posts, pages, media and tags to the new WordPress site.
If you’re currently operating an eCommerce store on Joomla, then keep scrolling down to know how to convert Joomla to WordPress seamlessly and painlessly.
Create WooCommerce store
First thing first, you need to install WordPress. Once WordPress is available, let’s move to installing your WooCommerce store.
From the WordPress dashboard, follow these below steps:
- Go to Plugins > Add new
- Search for WooCommerce
- Click Install now > Activate
After activating the plugin, you will be directed shortly to the WooCommerce Setup Wizard. There, fill in some required information to configure your store.
Here is a quick tutorial video to help you set up your WooCommerce store from scratch, check it out!
Set Up Source & Target Carts
After logging in to the LitExtension website, click on Create new migration and you will be directed to a setup wizard.
Set up Source Cart and Target Cart
Here, select Joomla as Source Cart Type and provide the source cart URL into the blank space. Then, click LitExtension Connector to download the connector, extract the zip file and upload the file to Source Store’s root folder.
Next, repeat the same process to set up your Target Cart.
Configure Migration
With LitExtension – the world#1 Shopping Cart Migration Expert, you can transfer almost every important data including customers, products, orders, reviews and so on.
In addition, you can take advantage of additional options to further extend migration capabilities. For instance, if you tick “Create the 301 redirects on your target store after migration” option, it will automatically create 301 redirects from your Joomla store to your WooCommerce store.
Migration Option
Migrate Joomla to WordPress with LitExtension
With LitExtension, you can try out the demo version first to get a better idea of the migration process. But you can always skip the demo and jump straight to full migration.
Once the process starts, it will constantly run on the server. There’s no need for you to turn your computer on while the migration is running. You’ll receive an automated email from LitExtension after the process has been complete.
Post-migration Activities
Now, it’s time to take some extra steps to touch up your new WooCommerce home. We recommend that you go over this list of post-migration activities as the data transfer completes.
Check result
Firstly, you ought to perform a thorough check both in your WooCommerce frontend and backend to make sure nothing goes wrong. Don’t hesitate to contact LitExtension’s technical support team in case any problem arises.
Choose a theme for your new WooCommerce store
Your eCommerce store can have so much value to offer but without that initial hook, customers might quickly lose interest. Hence, you should take your time to determine the suitable theme for your new WooCommerce store (see detail about 10+ best WooCommerce themes in 2024).
In most cases, you can select any WordPress template and still make it work with WooCommerce. This means you will have access to a myriad of WordPress themes.
You can find an appealing array of templates on Storefront – WooCommerce default store design or explore more premium options on ThemeForest. These themes are generally tidy and elegant yet feature-rich and mobile-responsive.
Elementor lives up to its reputation for being one of the best WordPress add-ons providing templates, widgets and a cleaner interface to speed up the creation process. Read detailed Elementor review here.
Add extensions & plugins
Then, the following step is adding extensions to help you boost your leads. It is possible to add payment gateways, SEO, inventory management, marketing and almost any features you can think of.
And the best part is if you have a good command of coding, you can create an extension that suits your personal business needs on your own.
Perform recent data migration
Throughout the data transfer process with LitExtension, your previous Joomla store still receives new purchases, customers and new products normally. Thus, so as not to miss any data, it’s highly recommended that you run the Recent Data Migration or Smart Update service.
The former allows you to transfer all the new data to your WooCommerce store. Whereas, with the latter, you can update data that has been edited and, at the same time, transfer those that newly appear in your Joomla store during/after the migration.
Switch domain
Another must-do task in the check-list migration is to switch domain to WooCommerce. Please refer to this document for detailed instruction on how to switch domain to your new store.
Migration Pricing
Automated Migration
With the Automated Migration Package, you can run a seamless store migration automatically and accurately using the LitExtension app in only 3 simple steps.
Automated Migration includes:
- Pre-migration
- Data Migration
- Perform Migration
- Additional Migration Options are available
- Data Security
- Post-migration
- Customer Support
Extensive data can be challenging to migrate accurately. Please connect with our experts through the ChatBox at the bottom-right or book a call for the best consultancy for your data migration.
All-in-One Migration Service
All-in-One Migration is a all-inclusive service. LitExtension experts will handle the migration from start to finish to ensure the best results of your project.
All-in-One Migration Service includes:
- Pre-migration Support
- Data Migration
- Full Migration Implementation
- Free All Additional Migration Options
- Data Security
- Migration Results Testing
- Post-migration
- Customer Support
Extensive data can be challenging to migrate accurately. Please connect with our experts through the ChatBox at the bottom-right or book a call for the best consultancy for your data migration.
Popular Questions About Joomla to WordPress Migration
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How Does Joomla to WordPress Migration Cost?
Joomla to WordPress Migration costs will vary depending on the number of entities to be transferred and the source cart type. Click here to estimate your migration price.
Why should I use WooCommerce when migrating Joomla stores to WordPress?
WooCommerce enables your WordPress website to become a fully operational e-commerce store. Although WordPress supports sales, it doesn’t offer the extensive features and customization that WooCommerce does.
Can I migrate categories and subcategories of products from Joomla to WordPress?
Yes, transitioning from Joomla to WordPress enables the smooth transfer of both categories and their associated subcategories.
How long does a Joomla to WordPress migration take?
The duration of migrating from Joomla WordPress site is chiefly dependent on the amount of content being transferred. A larger number of entities will prolong the process.
What are other WordPress Migration at LitExtension?
Here are list of Popular WordPress Migration Services at LitExtension:
Will my customer passwords be migrated from Joomla to WordPress?
Upon switching from Joomla to WordPress, your old passwords won’t be valid anymore due to different encoding standards. To keep using your old password, install the Customer Password Plugin.
Can I continue to take orders during the Joomla to WordPress Migration?
While migrating from Joomla to WordPress with LitExtension, you can keep taking orders on your existing store. It will function as usual, giving you time to set up your WooCommerce store.
Will my website’s SEO be affected by migrating from Joomla to WordPress?
Using LitExtension to move from Joomla to WordPress won’t harm your site’s SEO.
Can create URLs Redirects when migrating from Joomla to WordPress?
You can establish URL redirects for your store while migrating from Joomla to WordPress, so your old URLs will function normally afterward.
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Precise and Reliable Migration
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From initial consultation to post-migration, our Personal Asisstant is always your go-to resource for timely guidance, troubleshooting, and expert advice.
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