Description

This plugin migrates sections, categories, posts, images, medias and tags from Joomla to WordPress.

It has been tested with Joomla versions 1.5 through 3.9 and WordPress 5.9 on huge databases. It is compatible with multisite installations.

Major features include:

migrates Joomla sections as categories
migrates categories as sub-categories
migrates Joomla posts (published, unpublished and archived)
migrates Joomla web links
uploads all the posts media in WP uploads directories (as an option)
uploads external media (as an option)
modifies the post content to keep the media links
resizes images according to the sizes defined in WP
defines the featured image to be the first post image
keeps the alt image attribute
keeps the image caption
modifies the internal links
migrates meta keywords as tags
migrates page breaks
can import Joomla articles as posts or pages

No need to subscribe to an external web site.

Premium version

The Premium version includes these extra features:

migrates authors and other users with their passwords
migrates the navigation menus
SEO: migrates the meta description and the meta keywords
SEO: keeps the Joomla articles IDs or redirects Joomla URLs to the new WordPress URLs
compatible with Joomla 1.0 and Mambo 4.5 and 4.6 (process {mosimages} and {mospagebreak})
migrates Joomla 1.0 static articles as pages
migrates Joomla 2.5+ featured images
migrates Joomla 2.5+ post links
migrates Joomla 3.1+ tags
migrates Mambo data
migrates Elxis data (Joomla 1.0 fork)
ability to run the import automatically from the cron

The Premium version can be purchased on: https://www.fredericgilles.net/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/

Add-ons

The Premium version allows the use of add-ons that enhance functionality:

K2
EasyBlog
Flexicontent
Zoo
Kunena forum
sh404sef
JoomSEF
OpenSEF
WP-PostViews (keep Joomla hits)
JComments
JomComment
JDownloads
Joomlatags
Attachments
Rokbox
RokGallery
JoomGallery
PhocaDownload
PhocaGallery
Joom!Fish translations to WPML
JEvents events
Contact Manager
Docman
Virtuemart
JReviews
Mosets Tree
User Groups
WPML
Simple Image Gallery & Simple Image Gallery Pro
RSGallery
Community Builder
RSBlog
AllVideos
HikaShop
Acymailing

These modules can be purchased on: https://www.fredericgilles.net/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/add-ons/

Demo

Translations

English (default)
French (fr_FR)
Spanish (es_ES)
Italian (it_IT)
German (de_DE)
Russian (ru_RU)
Polish (pl_PL)
Bulgarian (bg_BG)
Brazilian (pt_BR)
Greek (el_EL)
other can be translated

Screenshots

Parameters screen

Installation

Install the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu => Add New => Upload => Select the zip file => Install Now
Activate the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu
Run the importer in Tools > Import > Joomla (FG)
Configure the plugin settings. You can find the Joomla database parameters in the Joomla file configuration.php
Hostname = $host
Port = 3306 (standard MySQL port)
Database = $db
Username = $user
Password = $password
Joomla Table Prefix = $dbprefix

FAQ

I get the message: “[fg-joomla-to-wordpress] Couldn’t connect to the Joomla database. Please check your parameters. And be sure the WordPress server can access the Joomla database. SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ‘xxx’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)”

First verify your login and password to the Joomla database.
If Joomla and WordPress are not installed on the same host:
If you use CPanel on the Joomla server, a solution is to allow a remote MySQL connection.
- go into the Cpanel of the Joomla server
- go down to Database section and click “Remote MySQL”
- There you can add an access host (WordPress host). Enter the access host as the SOME-WEBSITE-DOMAIN-OR-IP-ADDRESS and click add host.
Another solution is to copy the Joomla database on the WordPress database:
- export the Joomla database to a SQL file (with phpMyAdmin for example)
- import this SQL file on the same database as WordPress
- run the migration by using WordPress database credentials (host, user, password, database) instead of the Joomla ones in the plugin settings.

I get this error when testing the connection: “SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused” or “SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory”

This error happens when the host is set like localhost:/tmp/mysql5d.sock
Instead, you must set the host to be localhost;unix_socket=/tmp/mysql5d.sock

The migration stops and I get the message: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of XXXXXX bytes exhausted” or I get the message: “Internal server error”

First, deactivate all the WordPress plugins except the ones used for the migration
You can run the migration again. It will continue where it stopped.
You can add: define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M'); in your wp-config.php file to increase the memory allowed by WordPress
You can also increase the memory limit in php.ini if you have write access to this file (ie: memory_limit = 1G). See the increase memory limit procedure.

I get a blank screen and the import seems to be stopped

Same as above

The media are not imported

Check the URL field that you filled in the plugin settings. It must be your Joomla home page URL and must start with http://

The media are not imported and I get the error message: “Warning: copy() [function.copy]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration”

The PHP directive “Allow URL fopen” must be turned on in php.ini to copy the medias. If your remote host doesn’t allow this directive, you will have to do the migration on localhost.

Nothing is imported at all

Check your Joomla version. The Joomla 1.0 database has got a different structure from the other versions of Joomla. Importing Joomla 1.0 database is a Premium feature.

All the posts are not migrated. Why ?

The posts put in trash are not migrated. But unpublished and archived posts are migrated as drafts.
Some users reported that the Zend Framework causes an incomplete import. So, if all the data is not migrated, consider deactivating the Zend Framework during the migration.

I get the message: “Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not found”

PDO and PDO_MySQL libraries are needed. You must enable them in php.ini on the WordPress host.
Or on Ubuntu:
sudo php5enmod pdo
sudo service apache2 reload

I get this error: PHP Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‘MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND’

You have to enable PDO_MySQL in php.ini on the WordPress host. That means uncomment the line extension=pdo_mysql.so in php.ini

Does the migration process modify the Joomla site it migrates from?

No, it only reads the Joomla database.

I get this error: Erreur !: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1193] Unknown system variable ‘NAMES’

It comes from MySQL 4.0. It will work if you move your database to MySQL 5.0 before running the migration.

I get this error “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM”

You must use at least PHP 5.3 on your WordPress site.

I get this error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

It is a compatibility issue with your version of MySQL.
You can read this post to fix it: http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=8667

None image get transferred into the WordPress uploads folder. I’m using Xampp on Windows.

Xampp puts the htdocs in the applications folder which is write protected. You need to move the htdocs to a writeable folder.

How to import content from one section as posts and another section as pages?

You can use the Convert Post Types plugin after the migration.

Do I need to keep the plugin activated after the migration?

No, you can deactivate or even uninstall the plugin after the migration (for the free version only).

Is there a log file to show the information from the import?

Yes since version 1.45.0. First you must put these lines in wp-config.php:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
And the messages will be logged to wp-content/debug.log.

How does the plugin handle Weblinks?

The plugin imports the Joomla web links to WordPress links managed by the Link Manager plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-manager/

My screen hangs because of a lot of errors in the log window

You can stop the log auto-refresh by unselecting the log auto-refresh checkbox

Don’t hesitate to let a comment on the forum or to report bugs if you found some.

Reviews

erlanic January 14, 2022

Essential software for any migration project. Saves considerable time. Fast and smooth operation. The investment is immediately amortised.

wrapupweb January 11, 2022

Does the job and support is great too.

fefo1983 January 4, 2022

I've used FG Joomla to Wordpress plugin to perform the migration of more than 1.900 articles from a Joomla website to a Wordpress website. The plugin worked perfectly but most of all I've been impressed with the quality of the support given by Frederic and his team. They've helped me with a trouble I had with some articles, and they went well beyond the expected support level. Great job, great plugin, great team.

orionaselite December 22, 2021

Bought this plugin plus some addons. Had an issue with some flexicontent and images not being imported initially. The support was amazing and fixed it for me I would give 10 stars if it were possible

klaggy December 1, 2021

Wow, thank you so much, you saved me hours of work, everything worked as planned, not one bug (hard to believe when doing such an operation!), cheers! 🙂

eliduher November 25, 2021

The plugin does what it says in the description. But I took full advantage of it with their technical support. They are experts, a few words and solutions.

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Contributors & Developers

“FG Joomla to WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Kerfred

“FG Joomla to WordPress” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “FG Joomla to WordPress” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

3.93.0

New: Don’t delete the theme’s customizations (WP 5.9) when removing all WordPress content
Tested with WordPress 5.9

3.92.0

New: Add a function to get the manifest of a Joomla extension
Tested with WordPress 5.8.2

3.89.0

New: Add the hook “fgj2wp_modify_links_in_string”
Tested with WordPress 5.8.1

3.88.0

New: Add a spinner during emptying WordPress content, saving parameters and modifying the internal links

3.87.0

Tweak: refactoring

3.86.0

New: Add a spinner during the import

3.84.0

New: Replace the internal links in the categories description

3.83.0

New: Add post_type parameter in the hook “fgj2wp_post_insert_post”
Fixed: Some variables were not escaped before displaying
Tested with WordPress 5.8

3.80.2

Fixed: Line breaks were removed in formatted text and code

3.80.0

Tweak: Refactor the modify_links() function
Tested with WordPress 5.7.2

3.79.0

Tested with WordPress 5.7

3.78.0

Tweak: Remove the “wp_insert_post” hook that consumes a lot of CPU and memory

3.77.0

New: Option to not import the archived categories
New: Option to not import the unpublished categories

3.76.2

Fixed: [ERROR] Article #: Invalid date.
Tested with WordPress 5.6.2

3.76.1

Fixed: Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null

3.76.0

New: Allow the add-ons to count the number of categories of specific Joomla extensions
Tested with WordPress 5.6.1

3.75.0

New: Check if we need the Acymailing add-on
Fixed: Directory contains “http” when using the FTP or the file system download methods

3.74.2

Fixed: Plugin and add-ons not displayed in the debug informations on Windows
Fixed: Images inserted in the post content with width and height = 0 when the option “Don’t generate the thumbnails” is selected

3.74.1

Tested with WordPress 5.6

3.74.0

New: Add the function wp_table_exists()
New: Add the functions copy_dir(), copy_file() and is_dir() in the download manager
Fixed: Empty files were not transferred

3.73.3

Fixed: JQuery Migrate warning: jQuery.fn.load() is deprecated
Fixed: Import the GMT date instead of the local date

3.73.2

Fixed: Duplicated slash in the FTP and File System path
Fixed: Extra warning if the file to download doesn’t exist
New: Display FTP errors

3.73.1

Fixed: Character ” not displayed in the settings
Fixed: Warning: scandir(): failed to open dir: No such file or directory

3.73.0

New: Ability to change the default import timeout by adding define('IMPORT_TIMEOUT', 7200); in the wp-config.php file

3.72.1

Fixed: Files containing spaces were not downloaded with the file system or FTP protocol

3.72.0

New: Ability to download the media by http, ftp or file system
New: Add MySQL wait_timeout in the Debug Info
New: Display the SQL errors and die if MySQL server has gone away
Optimization: Don’t regenerate the thumbnails if the attachment already exists
Optimization: Don’t import the file if the attachment already exists
Tested with WordPress 5.5.3

3.71.2

Fixed: Images not imported
Fixed: Progress bar at 0% if the site is in https and the WordPress general settings are in http

3.71.1

Fixed: Images not imported (Forbidden user-agent)

3.71.0

New: Check if we need the RokGallery add-on
Tested with WordPress 5.5.1

3.70.0

Compatible with WordPress 5.5
Fixed: Timezone was not the same between the start and the end time in the logs
Fixed: Links pointing to weblinks were wrong after modifying the internal links

3.69.0

New: Add an option to not generate the images thumbnails
New: Make the max_allowed_packet human readable
Change: Set the default media timeout to 20 seconds

3.68.0

New: Check if we need the PhocaDownload add-on

3.67.0

New: Display the PHP errors in the logs
New: Check if the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin is used on Joomla
Tested with WordPress 5.4.2

3.66.2

Tested with WordPress 5.4.1

3.66.0

New: Check if the “Simple Image Gallery” plugin is installed
Fixed: Logs were not displayed
Tested with WordPress 5.4

3.65.1

Fixed: Media links with arguments were not imported

3.65.0

New: Add allow_url_fopen in the Debug Info
Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_SCHEME

3.64.1

Fixed: Prevent WordPress from breaking links containing ‘:’

3.63.1

Fixed: Logs were not displayed due to mod_security

3.63.0

New: Modify internal links which contain –
Tweak: Add $image_description argument in the insert_attachment() method

3.62.0

New: Modify internal links which contain underscores
Fixed: Notice: date_default_timezone_set(): Timezone ID ” is invalid

3.61.5

Fixed: Some internal links containing anchors were badly modified

3.61.4

Tested with WordPress 5.3.2

3.61.3

Fixed: Featured images not imported

3.61.2

Tested with WordPress 5.3

3.61.1

Fixed: Wrong number of imported media displayed
Fixed: Wrong number of imported tags displayed
Tested with WordPress 5.2.4

3.60.0

New: Check if JDownloads is used
Tweak: Refactoring

3.59.1

Fixed: Logs were not displayed if the URL is wrong in the WordPress general settings

3.59.0

New: Download the media even if they are redirected
Fixed: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Fixed: Copying to clipboard wasn’t working if something was already selected

3.58.0

New: Add the max_allowed_packet in the Debug Info tab

3.57.0

New: Add an help tab
New: Add a debug info tab
Tested with WordPress 5.2.3

3.56.0

Fixed: [ERROR] Error:SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘c.state’ in ‘where clause’
Fixed: Update the pt_BR translation

3.55.1

Fixed: Notice: Undefined variable: sql
Fixed: the featured image was not removed from the content on Mambo databases

3.54.3

Tested with WordPress 5.2.2

3.54.1

Tested with WordPress 5.2.1

3.52.2

Fixed: Missing content when the content contains without an href attribute

3.52.1

Tested with WordPress 5.1.1

3.51.1

Tested with WordPress 5.0.3

3.51.0

New: Allow to download media from sites with a non valid SSL certificate
Fixed: Some NGINX servers were blocking the images downloads
Tested with WordPress 5.0.2

3.50.0

New: Cache database results to improve import speed
New: Add hooks
Tested with WordPress 5.0

3.48.1

Fixed: Images with HTML entities in the scr attribute were not imported

3.48.0

Tested with Joomla 3.9

3.47.0

New: Generate the audio and video meta data (ID3 tag, featured image)

3.46.0

Tweak: Rename WPML by Internationalization

3.44.0

Tested with WordPress 4.9.8

3.43.1

Fixed: Images not imported when the “data-src” attribute is used

3.43.0

Tweak: Add the function wc_upload_dir()
Tested with WordPress 4.9.6

3.42.0

New translation: Greek (thanks to Kostas A.)
Fixed: The media containing “+” in their filename were not imported

3.41.1

Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: date

3.41.0

New: Check if Community Builder 2.x is installed
Tested with WordPress 4.9.5

3.40.0

New: Check if we need the HikaShop module
Change the URL of the WP Filesystem SSH2 plugin
Tweak: Change the scope of the upload_dir() method

3.39.0

New: Add the “fgj2wp_pre_modify_link” filter hook

3.38.0

New: Allow the SFTP connection. It requires the plugin “WP Filesystem SSH2”.

3.37.0

New: Check if we need the plugins RSGallery, Simple Image Gallery, Simple Image Gallery Pro, Rokbox, AllVideos
Update the Spanish translations

3.36.0

New: Add the get_params() method (used in the Simple Image Gallery add-on)

3.35.1

Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: date
Tested with WordPress 4.9.4

3.35.0

New: Import the images embedded in the categories description
New: Allow HTML tags in categories description
Fixed: Links modified with wrong value

3.34.0

Tweak: Use WP_IMPORTING
Tested with WordPress 4.9.2

3.33.3

Fixed: Media containing “&” were not imported
Tested with WordPress 4.9.1

3.33.2

Tested with WordPress 4.9

3.33.1

Fixed: The width in the image caption was sometimes missing
Tested with WordPress 4.8.3

3.33.0

Fixed: Sanitize the file names with spaces
Tested with Joomla 3.8
Tested with WordPress 4.8.2

3.32.0

New: Check if we need the RSBlog module

3.31.0

New: Test if Falang is used on Joomla
Fixed: Security cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Ajax importer
Tested with WordPress 4.8.1

3.30.0

New: Import the image caption in the media attachment page

3.28.0

New: Modify internal links in drafts

3.27.0

New: Block the import if the URL field is empty and if the media are not skipped
New: Add error messages and information

3.26.0

New: Add the percentage in the progress bar
New: Display the progress and the log when returning to the import page
Change: Restyling the progress bar
Fixed: Typo – replace “complete” by “completed”
Tested with WordPress 4.8

3.25.0

Compatible with Joomla 3.7
Tested with WordPress 4.7.4

3.23.2

Tested with WordPress 4.7.3

3.23.1

Fixed: Images not imported on some servers
Tested with WordPress 4.7.1

3.23.0

Tweak: Code refactoring

3.22.0

Tweak: Code refactoring

3.21.0

New: Add an option to remove the accents from the medias (useful on Windows)
Tested with WordPress 4.7

3.20.6

Fixed: Existing images attached to imported posts were removed when deleting the imported data
Fixed: Typo in Italian translation

3.20.5

Fixed: Images not imported on HTTPS sites: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to https::80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)

3.20.4

Fixed: Wrong progress bar color

3.20.3

Fixed: The progress bar didn’t move during the first import
Fixed: The log window was empty during the first import

3.20.2

New: Check if the Community Builder module is required
Fixed: The “IMPORT COMPLETE” message was still displayed when the import was run again

3.20.1

Fixed: The images protected by a user agent protection were not imported

3.20.0

Tweak: Code refactoring

3.19.1

Fixed: Database passwords containing “<” were not accepted

3.19.0

New: Modify the tags links in the post content

3.18.0

New: Authorize the connections to Web sites that use invalid SSL certificates
Tweak: If the import is blocked, stop sending AJAX requests

3.17.2

Fixed: Review link broken
Fixed: Imported tags were not removed when removing imported data only

3.17.1

Fixed: Missing link between the post and its featured image
Fixed: Wrong number of comments displayed
Tested with WordPress 4.6.1

3.16.0

New: Display the number of data found in the Joomla database before importing
New: Display the needed modules as warnings before importing
Tested with WordPress 4.6

3.15.3

Tweak: Code optimization

3.15.2

Fixed: the “Modify internal links” function could break some links

3.15.1

Fixed: Internal links like catid=XXX&id=YYY were not modified
Tweak: Speed up and reduce the memory consumed by the modification of the internal links

3.15.0

New translation: Italian

3.14.0

New: Compatible with Joomla 3.6

3.13.3

Fixed: Display an error message when the process hangs
Tweak: Increase the speed of counting the terms

3.13.2

Tested with WordPress 4.5.3

3.13.1

Fixed: Don’t import the introtext in the post content if it is marked as hidden on Joomla

3.13.0

New: Compatibility between the Joom!Fish and Docman add-ons
Fixed: Wrong redirect when an attachment has the same name as a post

3.12.0

Fixed: Rewrite the function to delete only the imported data
Fixed: Categories import can hang if the import counter was resetted and the imported categories were not deleted

3.11.0

New: Option to import the featured images only

3.10.2

Fixed: The message “[ERROR] The import process is still running. Please wait before running it again.” sometimes appears after the process has crashed, and it prevents the import process to resume
FAQ updated

3.10.0

New: Add some hooks
Tweak: Code optimization
FAQ updated

3.9.1

Fixed: Images with line breaks inside the tag were not imported
Tested with WordPress 4.5.2

3.9.0

New: Allow image filenames starting with //

3.8.0

Tweak: Add functions useful for add-ons
Tested with WordPress 4.5.1

3.7.0

New: Ability to stop the log window auto-refresh

3.6.1

Tested with WordPress 4.5

3.6.0

New: Compatible with Joomla 3.5
Fixed: Images without slashes in their path were not imported

3.5.1

Fixed: Import stopped when a post has no title or no content
Fixed: The first image was not removed from the content when used both in the intro text and in the full text

3.5.0

Fixed: Notice: Undefined variable: imported_tags
Fixed: the progress bar was resetted when resuming the import

3.4.0

New: Modify the first image options
Tweak: Code refactoring

3.3.1

Fixed: Error :SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘c.extension’ in ‘where clause’

3.3.0

New: Use the WordPress FTP API instead of the phpseclib library
New: Better handle the progress bar
New: Don’t log the [COUNT] data in the log window
Fixed: Browser tab crashed when too much data was displayed in the log window

3.2.0

New: Modify the Joomla SEF links

3.1.0

New: Brazilian translation added
Fixed: When choosing “Import first image as featured only”, the first image was not removed from content if it was surrounded by a hyperlink

3.0.3

Fixed: Articles got the unassigned category when the category is a duplicate

3.0.2

Fixed: Infinite loop when some categories have duplicate names

3.0.1

Fixed: After a resume, the posts were imported as uncategorized
Tested with WordPress 4.4.2

3.0.0

New: Run the import in AJAX
New: Add a progress bar
New: Add a logger frame to see the logs in real time
New: Ability to stop the import
New: Compatible with PHP 7

2.14.1

Fixed: Medias with relative paths were not uploaded to the right folder when not using month- and year-based folders

2.14.0

New: For the articles and categories whose alias is a date, the imported slug will be the title and not the alias

2.13.0

New: Keep the Joomla media folder tree when the uploads are not organized into month- and year-based folders

2.12.0

Fixed: Featured image issue

2.11.1

Tested with WordPress 4.4.1

2.11.0

Fixed: Categories with null description were not imported

2.10.0

Tweak: Use the WordPress 4.4 term metas: performance improved, nomore need to add a category prefix
Tweak: Optimize code
Fixed: The notices and errors were sometimes displayed before the header is sent
Fixed: Categories with duplicated names were not imported
Fixed: The cache for the taxonomies different from category was not cleaned

2.9.2

Tested with WordPress 4.4

2.9.0

New: Add SFTP protocol
New: Import the {audio} tag
New: Add a link to the FAQ in the connection error message

2.8.0

New: Add an Import link on the plugins list page

2.7.4

Tweak: Code refactoring for unit tests

2.7.3

New: Add the hook ‘fgj2wp_get_wp_post_from_joomla_url’
Tweak: Code refactoring

2.7.1

Fixed: Don’t display the warning about WPML if JoomFish is used
Tweak: Change the range of the get_wp_post_id_from_joomla_id() function to be available for add-ons

2.7.0

New: Add the FTP settings (used for Simple Image Gallery add-on)

2.6.0

New: Make the platform more accessible to more languages
Update all the translations

2.5.2

New: Check if we need the WPML module

2.5.1

Tested with WordPress 4.3.1

2.5.0

Fixed some translations
New add-on: WPML to move the multilingual content

2.4.0

New: Add an anti-duplicate test if the user runs another import process again while one is still running
Fixed: Solve conflicts between FG plugins by limiting the Javascript scope

2.3.3

Fixed: Some medias with accents were not imported
Tested with WordPress 4.3

2.3.2

Tested with WordPress 4.2.4

2.3.1

Tested with WordPress 4.2.3

2.3.0

New: Change the video links {“video”} to WordPress video tags

2.2.2

Fixed: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object

2.2.0

Tested with WordPress 4.2.2

2.1.2

Tested with WordPress 4.2.1

2.1.1

Tested with WordPress 4.2

2.1.0

Tweak: Restructure and optimize the images import functions
Tweak: Move the suspend cache functions into the dispatch method

2.0.0

Restructure the whole code using the BoilerPlate foundation
FAQ updated

1.46.1

Fixed: Remove duplicate hook in weblinks.php
New add-on: User Groups

1.46.0

New: Compatible with Joomla 3.4 (ignore weblinks)

1.45.0

New: Log the messages to wp-content/debug.log
Tweak: Code optimization
FAQ updated

1.44.3

Fixed: Import images even when there are linefeeds in the img tags

1.44.2

Fixed: Don’t import the posts as duplicates if the categories are duplicated on Joomla

1.44.1

Tested with WordPress 4.1.1

1.44.0

Fixed: the joomla_query() function was returning only one row
Update the German translation (thanks to Tobias C.)
Update the Spanish translation (thanks to Jacob R.)

1.43.4

Fixed: Multisite: Links that contain “:” were corrupted
FAQ updated

1.43.2

Tweak: Add hooks in the modify_links functions

1.43.0

FAQ updated
Tested with WordPress 4.1

1.42.0

Tweak: Don’t display the timeout field if the medias are skipped

1.41.0

New: Keep the anchor link when modifying the internal links
Tested with WordPress 4.0.1

1.40.0

Update the German translation (thanks to Tobias C.)

1.39.5

Update the Spanish translation (thanks to Bradis García L.)

1.39.4

Fixed: Allow backslashes in the articles content

1.39.3

Fixed: Remove extra slashes in the media filenames

1.39.1

Tweak: Simplify the posts count function

1.39.0

New: Add a timeout option

1.38.1

Fixed: Some image captions were not imported

1.38.0

Fixed: The media filename was empty on the attachment page
Tested with WordPress 4.0

1.37.0

New: Help screen

1.36.0

New: Functions to get the Joomla imported posts, categories and users
New add-on: JReviews

1.35.0

New: Function to get the Joomla installation language
New add-on: Virtuemart to WooCommerce
Tested with WordPress 3.9.2

1.34.2

Fixed: Define the width and the height of the images only if it isn’t defined yet

1.34.1

New: Modify the internal links for both posts, pages and custom post types

1.34.0

New: Add option to automatically remove the WordPress content before each import

1.32.0

New: Display the number of Joomla articles, categories, users and web links during the database connection test
New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.3

1.31.4

Fixed: Warning: Creating default object from empty value

1.31.3

Fixed: “Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object” for versions of MySQL < 5.0.3

1.31.2

New add-on: Docman
Tested with WordPress 3.9.1

1.31.1

New: Add a parameter to force the external media import

1.31.0

New: Import Web links

1.30.0

Tested with WordPress 3.9

1.29.4

New: Change the visibility of some methods to use them in add-ons
Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: width
Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: height

1.29.3

Fixed: Was displaying the warning “Your version of Joomla (probably 1.0) is not supported by this plugin.” when both the Premium and the free versions were activated
Tested with WordPress 3.8.2

1.29.2

New: Change the visibility of some methods to use them in add-ons

1.29.1

Fixed: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object

1.29.0

New: The required modules are listed when testing the connection to Joomla

1.28.0

New: Nomore need to choose the Joomla version ; it is guessed by the plugin.
New: Add a message when trying to import a Joomla 1.0 database

1.27.0

New: Minor internal changes
FAQ updated

1.24.4

New: Add hooks
Fixed: Notice Undefined offset

1.24.3

Fixed: Don’t add the <!–more–> tag if the introtext is empty
Tested with WordPress 3.8.1

1.24.1

Fixed: Syntax error with parse_ini_string
Fixed: Images containing “%20” were not imported into the post content
FAQ updated

1.24.0

New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.2
New translation: Bulgarian (thanks to Hristo P.)

1.22.6

Fixed: The «Remove only new imported posts» option was not removing anything
Tested with WordPress 3.8

1.22.5

Fixed: Archived posts were always imported as drafts in Joomla 2.5

1.22.4

New: Display error message if PDO is not enabled

1.22.3

New: Display SQL errors in debug mode
Description updated

1.22.2

New: Check if the upload directory is writable
Tested with WordPress 3.7.1

1.22.0

Fixed: Import the categories even when the articles are imported as pages
Tested with WordPress 3.7

1.21.3

Fixed: “Warning: sprintf(): Too few arguments” message for image captions with %

1.21.0

New translation: Spanish (thanks to Bradis García L.)

1.20.1

Fixed: Use the modified post date if the creation date is empty
Fixed: Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object

1.19.3

Fixed: Some spaces were removed (due to the extra newlines removal)
Fixed: Better rule for the convert_post_attribs_to_array function
Fixed: “WordPress database error Field ‘post_content’ doesn’t have a default value”

1.19.0

New: Import the page breaks
New: Option to import the Joomla introtext in the post and in the excerpt
New: Use the show_intro article parameter to import the introtext in the content or not
Tested with WordPress 3.6.1

1.18.0

New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.1
Fixed: Remove extra newlines

1.17.0

New: Add automatically http:// at the beginning of the URL if it is missing
New: Option for the first image import
FAQ updated

1.16.1

Fixed: syntax error, “unexpected ‘<‘” in version 1.16.0

1.16.0

New: Option to import images with duplicate names
New translation: Polish (Thanks to Łukasz Z.)
FAQ updated

1.15.2

Optimize the Joomla connection

1.15.1

New: Option to not import archived posts or to import them as drafts or as published posts

1.15.0

New: Import archived posts as drafts
Tested with WordPress 3.6

1.14.2

Fixed: The HTML classes were lost in the a-href and img tags
Unset by default the checkbox «Import the text above the “read more” to the excerpt»

1.14.1

Fixed: The caption shortcode is imported twice if the image has a link a-href pointing to a different image

1.14.0

New: Import images captions
Improve speed of processing the image links
Update the FAQ

1.13.0

Tested with WordPress 3.5.2
New: Add a button to save the settings
New: Improve the speed of emptying the WordPress content

1.12.1

Fixed: Replaces the publication date by the creation date as Joomla uses the creation date for sorting articles

1.12.0

New: Add a button to remove the categories prefixes
New: Option to not use the first post image as the featured image

1.11.0

New: Import external media (as an option)
New translation: Russian (Thanks to Julia N.)

1.10.6

Fixed: Categories hierarchy lost when parent categories had an id greater than their children

1.10.4

Fixed: Posts were not imported when the skip media option was off

1.10.3

Fixed: Categories hierarchy lost when parent categories had an id greater than their children (Joomla 1.6+)
New: Add hooks for extra images and after saving options

1.10.2

Tested with WordPress 3.5.1
New: Add hooks in the modify_links method

1.10.1

New: Add a hook for extra options
Fixed: Move the fgj2wp_post_empty_database hook
FAQ updated

1.10.0

New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.0
New: Option to delete only new imported posts without deleting the whole database

1.9.1

Fixed: the internal links where not modified on pages

1.9.0

Tested with WordPress 3.5
New: Button to test the database connection
New: Improve the user experience by displaying explanations on the parameters and error messages
New: get_categories hook modified

1.8.5

New: Option to not import already imported medias

1.8.4

FAQ updated

1.8.3

Fixed: Cache flushed after the migration
Fixed: Compatibility issue with WordPress < 3.3

1.8.2

New: Better compatibility for copying media: uses the WordPress HTTP API

1.8.1

New: Better compatibility for copying media: uses the copy function if cURL is not loaded

1.8.0

New: Compatibility with PHP 5.1 (thanks to dmikam)
New: Compatibility with WordPress 3.0 (thanks to dmikam)
New: Better compatibility for copying media (uses cURL) (thanks to dmikam)

1.7.1

FAQ updated

1.7.0

New: Compatibility with Joomla 2.5

1.6.3

New hooks added
Description updated

1.6.2

FAQ updated

1.6.1

Fixed: clean the cache after emptying the database
Fixed: the categories slugs were not imported if they had no alias

1.6.0

New: Compatibility with Joomla 1.6 and 1.7

1.5.0

New: Can import posts as pages (thanks to LWille)
Translation: German (thanks to LWille)

1.4.2

Tested with WordPress 3.4

1.4.1

Add “c” in the category slug to not be in conflict with the Joomla URLs
FAQ and description updated

1.4.0

New: Option to import meta keywords as tags

1.3.1

New: Deactivate the cache during the migration for improving speed

1.3.0

New: Modify posts internal links using WordPress permalinks setup
Fixed: Exhausted memory issue

1.2.2

Fixed: Don’t import HTML links as medias
FAQ updated

1.2.1

New: Get the post creation date when the publication date is empty
Fixed: Accept categories with spaces in alias

1.2.0

New: Import all media
Fixed: Do not reimport already imported categories
Fixed: Update categories cache
Fixed: Issue with media containing spaces
Fixed: Original images sizes are kept in post contents

1.1.1

New: Manage sections and categories duplicates
Fixed: Wrong categorization of posts

1.1.0

Update the FAQ
New: Can restart an import where it left after a crash (for big databases)
New: Display the number of categories, posts and images already imported
Fixed: Issue with categories with alias but no name
Fixed: Now import only post categories, not all categories (ie modules categories, …)

1.0.2

Fixed: The images with absolute links were not imported.
New: Option to skip the images import
New: Skip external images

1.0.1

Fixed: The content was not imported in the post content for the posts without a “Read more” link.
New: Option to choose to import the Joomla introtext in the excerpt or in the post content with a «Read more» tag.

1.0.0

Initial version: Import Joomla 1.5 sections, categories, posts and images