Migrating WordPress 2.2 to Joomla

Posted on May 18, 2007
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Joomla and SEF Advanced to replace WordPress 2.2

Yep, I’ve mentioned it before and this weekend this site will be migrated to a Joomla site and the blog will be moved to the /blog directory as I prepare to start publishing dozens and dozens of templates and other resources for download.

WordPress is certainly up to the task especially when considering using the WordPress Loop as a mini CMS system. I am a real fan of WordPress more so than ever before as I delve into it for some personal projects I’ve had tucked away for a long time. But WordPress as versatile an effective as it may be does not have a feature I most like about Joomla, the ability to designate menu positions on a page by page basis.

Joomla will give my new design and site some critical features specific to my long planned objective. I’ve wanted to publish tutorials, videos, templates and other resources for download to members where I can change the theme or template ever so slightly to reflect a unique look depending on the area of my site you are in. If for instance you will be visiting the tutorials area the tutorials template is what will be displayed and I can organize the menu’s a lot quicker than using WordPress, which also has the capability of individualized menu structures per “page” not “post” .

So I’m back to work to finish the WordPress projects I’ve started for clients and then over to complete the Forum design on TBE and then back here.

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to the URL’s. I’m going to use it as an example of how to preserve links and page rank while switching systems and I’ll provide a quick link list page in Joomla to demonstrate how it all works. So often people tell me they don’t want to migrate their site to Joomla for fear of losing their much valued and established indexing of existing links. Well I’m happy to tell you its very possible to preserve every single link regardless if its ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, or some other flavor of file extension.

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  1. Erjati June 7, 2007 8:54 pm

    I have been debating whether to begin my problogging career on wordpress or joomla, and have been leaning to the former, having found little on pro blogging on joomla. I have built a number of joomla sites. What are your thoughts?


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