How to Move Your Site from Joomla to WordPress

Step 1: Install WordPress

Before you can transfer your site, you will need to install WordPress. For instructions on how to do so, please see the following article:

• How to Install WordPress

Step 2: Install FG Joomla to WordPress Plugin

To install the FG Joomla to WordPress plugin:

1. Log into WordPress Dashboard via http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin.php or http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php (replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name).
2. From the left navigation menu, click Plugins > Add New.
3. Search for FG Joomla to WordPress and click Search Plugins.
4. Click Install Now, and then click Ok.
5. Click Activate Plugin.

Step 3: Connect Joomla to WordPress

From the left navigation menu in the WordPress Dashboard, click Tools > Import > Joomla (FG). This page is where the Joomla database settings  need to be added to begin the import.

1. Input Joomla database settings into their respective boxes.
2. In the URL (beginning with http://) field, enter the URL where the Joomla to WordPress import will reside.
3. Click the Test the connection button.

If the connection was successful, the following confirmation message will appear:

[fgj2wp] Connected with success to the Joomla database.

If you do not receive a success message, please double-check the settings and repeat the above steps.

How to Find the Joomla Database Settings

1. Log into cPanel.
2. In the Files section, click the File Manager icon.
3. In the pop-up box, select open Web Root and check off the box for Show Hidden Files; then click Go.

   If you don’t see the pop-up box. You may have selected the Skip this question, and always open this directory in the future when opening File Manager option.

   To make the pop-up reappear, simply click reset all interface settings at the very bottom of your cPanel.

4. From the left navigation menu in File Manager, click the + sign to the left of the public_html folder to expand the menu.
5. Click the folder containing the Joomla installation.
6. In the Joomla installation folder, locate the configuration.php file.
7. Right click on the file and select Code Edit.
8. When the file opens, look for the following information:
   public $host = ‘localhost’;
   public $user = ‘cPanelusername_jmln1’;
   public $password = ‘GVCIuBIj71UUBa’;
   public $db = ‘cPanelusername_jmln1’;
   public $dbprefix = ‘joom_’;

   (The above code is just an example of what you will see in the configuration.php file. The actual values will differ as they will match those of your database settings and not those of the example above.)

9. Copy the database settings from the configuration.php file and complete the steps above to connect Joomla to WordPress .

Step 4: Import Joomla

Once you have connected Joomla to your WordPress site, the last step is to select the content you wish to import.

1. From the WordPress Import Joomla (FG) screen, in the Behavior section, check off the boxes for which content you wish to import.
2. Click Import content from Joomla to WordPress. Once the import completes, there should be yellow sections on the page that show a confirmation of what was imported.
3. Visit your WordPress site and refresh the page to see your Joomla content on your WordPress site.