Do you have a Joomla website that you’d like to migrate to WordPress? Joomla is a solid CMS with a number of features, but it’s nowhere near as good as self-hosted WordPress (imho). If you’re looking to move your site from Joomla to WordPress for whatever reason, this guide will help you.
With WordPress, you will have a much wider variety of both themes and plugins, as well as the ability to add pretty much any kind of website functionality you’d like.
WordPress can be used to create nearly any kind of site you can imagine, and the development possibilities are pretty much endless.
Table of Contents
Post-migration steps
Choosing a theme
Creating menus
Setting up contact forms
Adding widgets
Adding image galleries
Installing must-have plugins
Updating your permalinks
Moving from development to live site
Redirecting old URLs
Checking and fixing your internal links
Making sure everything works
Pre-migration steps
Before you start the migration process, you’ll need to take care of a few things.
Web hosting
You obviously already have hosting for your Joomla site, but you may want to switch to a new web host that specializes in WordPress. If your current service
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17489/joomla-to-wordpress-migration-in-depth-guide-to-transfer-your-site
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