TOPIC: will cmigrator work for me?

Hi, I have an existing wordpress site and an existing joomla 2.5.3 site. I'd like for the wordpress site to be a new section of the joomla site.

Is this possible with cmigrator?

If I can't migrate to the existing joomla site, would it help me to migrate to a new joomla site, which I assume (but I could be wrong) wouldn't be too difficult to then move to the existing joomla site.

Thanks for your advice on this.

Hey there!
the problem is -> CMigrator will delete any existing content in the #__content table. This means that if you use it on an existing website -> you will loose your content.

The idea behind CMigrator is: you run a Wordpress/drupal website and you want to move the site to joomla. Then everything should be easy.

But if you are running a joomla website and you want to merge it with another wordpress site - hard thing to do...

You are the second person that asks this actually so maybe we should consider changing the way it works right now, but it is not on the list for now.

Hope that this answers your question!

Cheers,
Daniel

Hi wbrook,

You can actually migrate your Wordpress site to Joomla! site with this component so you wouldn't need your Wordpress anymore! After migration, all of your posts and pages will be added to Joomla! site as articles! The only problem for now is that we delete all previous data (categories, articles and users *) as Daniel already said.

I hope we helped you so far!

Regards, Petar

* Depends on migration selection

HI Peter
I have a WP 3.4 and a Joomla 2.5.8 with K2.
I would like to import the blog from the WP blog to a blog dedicated category in K2. I've read that your component will erase any previous content in com_k2. That is not good! I understand that you where considering to change logic to prevent this from happening. It's possible now? Have you upgraded your system?

In case it's not possible, would it be possible to use some other component such us extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extensi.../k2-extensions/12408
to export previous content from the current K2 installation, import with your tool the WP blog and then reimport the old content? do you think this is feasible? would you suggest any other way to proceed in this case?
Thank you very much.
Regards
Luca

Hi Luca!

Actually we upgraded our system long time ago! You can now keep your previous data without any problems! You just need to uncheck "Clean migration" option and all of your previous data will be there!
However, I am not sure that I understand you completely about "dedicated category"... When you run migration, all of your WP categories will be migrated. If you have some blog post from WordPress with more then one category, CMigrator will add that post only to one of them. If you want to migrate all of your posts and pages from WordPress to one, single category, just uncheck "Migrate Categories" option and all data will be placed in 2 categories, "Uncategorised pages" and "Uncategorised posts". You can than rename those categories or move all data to one single category from K2 component later.
If you want, we can go through migration together. I am always here to help!

Best Regards,
Petar

And as usual - whatever you decide to do - BACKUP first.
The 3 rules of the good administrator
1. Make a backup
2. Make a backup
3. Make a backup

Cheers,
Daniel