Bin-BlogExport To WordPress: Joomla Plugin
By Binny V A • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Scripts, WordPress
After covering WordPress and Drupal, its time for me to set my eyes on Joomla – the next major CMS software in the OSS field. Today, I’ll release my first ever Joomla plugin – the Export to WordPress plugin. This ‘component’(as Joomla users calls it), will create a XML dump of your sites contents. This XML file is readable and importable by wordpress. This plugin is important if you want to migrate from Joomla to WordPress. The XML dump will include all your posts, with categories and with all its comments.
Note: This is my first Joomla Plugin – so expect bugs. I am sure that my code is pretty horrific by professional Joomla plugin writers standards. So if you are migrating a site using this, please test the results thoroughly.
Download Export to WordPress Joomla Plugin
Installation
- Log into the Admin interface of Joomla.
- Go to Extensions > Install/Uninstall
- Enter this URL into the ‘Install URL’ field: ‘http://www.bin-co.com/tools/joomla/plugins/com_wordpressexport/com_wordpressexport.zip’
- Now go to Components > Export to WordPress to create a XML dump.
- You can import the created file into WordPress.
Plugin Week 2
This plugin is part of the Plugin Week 2 series. Plugin Week is a week when I publish a new plugin each day for an entire week. I have already one this one time – so this is Plugin Week 2. The plugins released so far…
- Weather Man
- MiniCart WordPress Plugin
- Gallifrey WordPress Plugin
- GIMP Plugin – Web 2.0 Shadows
- Drupal Plugin: Page Ad
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Hi! First congratulations for the initiative! Well, I have a website done in Joomla 1.5 and am migrating to wordpress, so I would like to migrate my posts too … (my site http://www.ociberativista.com) downloaded and installed your plugin on my joomla but when I click “Export to WordPress Dump” get a “500 internal server error” with the following message: “Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@ociberativista.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request ”
How can I fix? Thank you and congratulations once again!
p.s: Excuse my English, I’m brazilian;)
Do you know of any current way to go from Wordpress to Joomla? Every solution I’ve found either doesn’t exist anymore or the tools have been abandoned and can’t be downloaded.
Does this script require PHP5? It installs fine for me, but trying to run gives an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /administrator/components/com_wordpressexport/Sql.php on line 13same problem:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/user/public_html/joomla/administrator/components/com_wordpressexport/Sql.php on line 13
I have been looking and you are the best thing I have found to do the job, I got installed and exported, however when importing to wp, it imports cats. and titles only no article content. ANYhelp would be great, really want to do away with joomla
I had the same problem, just titles no content.
Terrific idea, hope to see improvements in future versions.
Can you write a post a small introduction on Joomla in one of your upcoming posts
This plugin rocked and worked exactly as advertised. Thanks!
Only titles no articles
Same Problem, only titles, there any upgrade version?