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#22025 Migration of a Wordpress site to Joomla

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 06 February 2015 02:36 CST

Thursday, 05 February 2015 09:28 CST

Nick_Q
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Description of my issue:
HI Nicholas,
I trust all is well with you - I have a question regarding Wordpress and Joomla: I have client who is looking to migrate his site from Wordpress to Joomla. He has a recent backup taken with Akeeba Backup (Wordpress) and I was wondering about using it to assist in the migration.

I realise that file structures will be different etc. but if I could use it to restore say just the database there are a number of migration extensions about e.g. JConverter but they seem to require that the databases are on the same server which I may (or may not) be able to achieve via a simple Db backup and restore.

Is my thinking well off track here? Your thoughts would be appreciated...

Thursday, 05 February 2015 11:25 CST

nicholas
Akeeba Backup takes a backup of a site for you to restore it somewhere else. It cannot move your data between Joomla! versions, WordPress versions or from WordPress to Joomla! and vice versa.

That said: You can use Akeeba Backup for WordPress to backup your site and restore it on a local server. Then you can install Joomla! and JConverter (or any similar extension) to convert your site to Joomla!. Now you can use Akeeba Backup for Joomla! to back it up and restore it on a live server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thursday, 05 February 2015 12:19 CST

Nick_Q
HI Nicholas,

Excellent - thank you for your clarity! That's is exactly what I thought but it is invaluable to have your confirmation.

One final question - I hold a "deluxe" subscription with you - does this include the Wordpress version of the akeeba backup or would I need another subscription?

Friday, 06 February 2015 02:36 CST

nicholas
No, Deluxe only includes our Joomla! software. You need a BACKUPWP subscription to get access to Akeeba Backup for WordPress. Since you are already a DELUXE subscriber you will get a 40% discount automatically when you try purchasing a BACKUPWP subscription.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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