Comments on: Export To WordPress: Joomla Plugin

By: Logan

Logan — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:56:18 +0000

Hey guys, There is a lot of extra white space in the generated XML file. If you open it in Dreamweaver, Copy one of the areas of whitespace in one of the posts/pages, do a find and replace and paste that whitespace into the Find, and place a simple “Space” in the Replace field, this will eliminated all of the whitespace. Save the file and then import it into WordPress. This stopped WordPress from truncating all of my pages from Joomla and made everything work perfectly.

Thanks for the plugin.

By: Web Designer Weston

Web Designer Weston — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:30:21 +0000

I have triued numerous times but the content fails each and every time? Frustrating to say the least, shall pop back in few weeks to see if resolved…hopefully.

By: Felix

Felix — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:06:56 +0000

Nah… didn’t work for me. Still just titles, no actual content. Close, but no cigar, binny & rob.

By: Billo

Billo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:37:14 +0000

Hi, compliments for this work! but all the posts are cutted (intro and complete text)! In the original xml file exported all was fine, Intro in the excerpt and complete in content, but i don’t know why, the posts uploaded are incomplete and arbitrary trimmed. Got a fix?

By: rob

rob — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:27:53 +0000

Hi Binny,

The excerpt and the content tags should be swapped with each other.

So what I did:
1. replace all “excerpt:encoded” with “temp:encoded” – the latter can be anything
2. replace all “content:encoded” with “excerpt:encoded
3. replace all “temp:encoded” with “content:encoded”

It should be done in 3 steps, you can’t replace the excerpt in the first step with content (then all will become excerpt in the 2nd step).

This works, although some articles aren’t completly imported, but mostly it went well.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:40:52 +0000

I’m not sure what you did. Swap all the excerpt:encoded tags and the content:encoded with what?

By: rob

rob — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:23:39 +0000

Found the solution: in the xlm file you need to swap all the excerpt:encoded tags and the content:encoded and you are set. Use a simple editor, replace all is the simpelst solution. I got it to work!

By: rob

rob — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:31:11 +0000

first of all great initiative! I’m also migrating from Joomla to WordPress. I like Joomla, but WordPress is just a bit easier to use.

When I import articles I’ve the same as the above, the article content is not migrated into content, but into the excerpt part of the post. Would be nice to know if there a solution!

By: Mirko

Mirko — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:35:18 +0000

Same Problem, only titles, there any upgrade version?

By: Twopo

Twopo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:36:24 +0000

Only titles no articles