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FG Joomla to WordPress

A plugin to migrate categories, posts, tags, images and other medias from Joomla to WordPress

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version4.35.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.5 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Oct 20261mo ago
Active installations7K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 336 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records FG Joomla to WordPress version 4.35.0 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

This plugin migrates sections, categories, posts, images, medias and tags from Joomla to WordPress.

0 and the latest version of WordPress on huge databases. It is compatible with multisite installations.

Major features include:

  • migrates Joomla sections as categories
  • migrates categories as sub-categories
  • migrates Joomla posts (published, unpublished and archived)
  • migrates Joomla web links
  • uploads all the posts media in WP uploads directories (as an option)
  • uploads external media (as an option)
  • modifies the post content to keep the media links
  • resizes images according to the sizes defined in WP
  • defines the featured image to be the first post image
  • keeps the alt image attribute
  • keeps the image caption
  • modifies the internal links
  • migrates meta keywords as tags
  • migrates page breaks
  • can import Joomla articles as posts or pages

No need to subscribe to an external web site.

Premium version

The Premium version includes these extra features:

  • migrates authors and other users with their passwords
  • migrates the navigation menus
  • SEO: migrates the meta description and the meta keywords
  • SEO: keeps the Joomla articles IDs or redirects Joomla URLs to the new WordPress URLs
  • compatible with Joomla 1.0 and Mambo 4.5 and 4.6 (process {mosimages} and {mospagebreak})
  • migrates Joomla 1.0 static articles as pages
  • migrates Joomla 2.5+ featured images
  • migrates Joomla 2.5+ post links
  • migrates Joomla 3.1+ tags
  • migrates Joomla 3.7+ custom fields
  • migrates Mambo data
  • migrates Elxis data (Joomla 1.0 fork)
  • ability to run the import automatically from the cron

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Add-ons

The Premium version allows the use of add-ons that enhance functionality:

  • K2
  • EasyBlog
  • Flexicontent
  • Zoo
  • Kunena forum
  • sh404sef
  • JoomSEF
  • OpenSEF
  • WP-PostViews (keep Joomla hits)
  • JComments
  • JomComment
  • Komento
  • JDownloads
  • Joomlatags
  • Attachments
  • Rokbox
  • RokGallery
  • JoomGallery
  • PhocaDownload
  • PhocaGallery
  • Joom!Fish translations to WPML
  • JEvents events
  • Contact Manager
  • Docman
  • Virtuemart
  • JReviews
  • Mosets Tree
  • User Groups
  • WPML
  • Simple Image Gallery & Simple Image Gallery Pro
  • RSGallery
  • Community Builder
  • RSBlog
  • AllVideos
  • HikaShop
  • Acymailing

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Demo

Translations

  • English (default)
  • Esperanto (eo)
  • French (fr_FR)
  • Spanish (es_ES)
  • Italian (it_IT)
  • German (de_DE)
  • Polish (pl_PL)
  • Bulgarian (bg_BG)
  • Brazilian (pt_BR)
  • Greek (el_EL)
  • Czech (cs_CZ)
  • other can be translated
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • elxis
  • import
  • joomla
  • mambo
  • migration
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.5 · PHP 5.6
Update activity2 Oct 20261mo ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version4.34.14.35.0
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.2
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