Can some one help me up with this please :((

I have a site based and running on Joomla

i want to migrate to wordpress but the joomla site is well indexed with search engines

so i want to keep the same links as the joomla site had

Now the two problems are :-

Any tool available for converting joomla database into wordpress
and
What abt the links and the corresponding changes in the new site with wordpress CMS

Please help

 

Wordpress is not a CMS, it is a blogging software/platform. There exists a plugin for Joomla that allows a "fully functional" Wordpress integration with Joomla. If you are interested, check it out : LINK

I do not know of a migration tool to take your Joomla database over to a Wordpress installation. It is a step down in usefulness.

 

thanks for the reply blue star

i understood what u said the difference abt wordpress and joomla

thanks for the link

i will see to that

 

I think the link matching is possible, but if you have a lot of pages to do, it may not be worth your time.

 

I don't know of anything that converts one to the other. You may have to rebuild. If you can export your content into an XML file, it is a step in the right direction. You can import into Wordpress with XML.

Well now...this is new information. Care to elaborate on why now all of a sudden Wordpress is not a CMS? And how if that is true, how Joomla is anything different?
Edited:
You know what, scratch that. I don't even care.

 

Wordpress is most certainly a cms and blows Joomla out of the water.

Nigel

 

ok so bottom line is....i cant convert a joomla website into wordpress with same links correct?

 

No, how many pages is it?

You would need to use htaccess to 301 your old urls to your new ones.

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

I'm just curious. Would you need to rewrite each URL or is there a way to redirect them all at once?

 

yaa

i have over 200 links that too all indexed so cant take a risk

 

@techmafia

No worries, I can help you out in it.

Wordpress allows a URL structure Option. We can change it to whatever we want, add .html, or Give style like home.com/category/post name which is currently your site structure.

You got that?You can contact me now or whenever you want a help from me.

Thanks.

 

yaa i am aware of the custom permalinks on wordpress

thanks man u really awakened me

will definately consider moving into WP from Joomla

 

Set up Wordpress ,re-create all pages , then immediately do a 301 permanent redirect for each page to its new url , i think that should be ok , Google will be fine with that if you do it properly