Migration from Joomla to WordPress.com

thibaultrihet · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 9:34 am
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Is it possible to migrate a website from Joomla to WordPress.com? If yes, how?

Based on what I’ve seen here on http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/ it seems that Joomla is not directly supported.

Do you know any easy way to do that migration? The question has been asked a few times here but was never really answered. I guess one way would be to convert the Joomla website into one of the supported format and then try to import it, but being new to CMS, I am not familiar with any of these formats and I was hoping somebody here could help me!

Thanks a lot!
elzrjose · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 4:12 pm
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Hi thibaultrihet,

This question is best asked at the Support Forum of WordPress.org but I think this would answer that. You will need to use a Plugin.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Joomla

Hope this helps. :)
timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 4:17 pm
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@thibaultrihet
There’s no doubt about this. Please read what Staff have said in another forum thread at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-help-switching-from-joomla-to-wordpress?replies=6#post-1847215

Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy way to achieve this since the resources I found requires a special plugin that isn’t available on WordPress.com. You might have better luck moving to a WordPress.org blog instead.

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

A WordPress.org blog allows you to upload your own custom plugins and themes, and gives you full control over your site’s code.
timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 4:18 pm
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WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
lizthefair · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 4:22 pm
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It might be more trouble than it’s worth, but once you imported your site from Joomla to WordPress.org, you could probably import the WordPress.org site over to WordPress.com.
auxclass · Member · Jul 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm
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Since you can’t install Plugin’s on WordPress.COM

Your option given by @elzrjose would be to install WordPress.ORG software on your existing web site – install whatever Plugin needed – convert from Joomla – then export the WordPress.ORG install files and import the files to a WordPress.COM blog here –

Not sure if that meets “easy” or not – the other option would be to hire someone to do the conversion for you

Also the terms of service are different here with many things that can’t be done – so you should review the Terms of service in detail first

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

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