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Sunday, May 8th, 2011 at 1:35 pm

Moving from Joomla to WordPress

Originally our website has been developed using the content management system, Joomla. Joomla is very powerful. Fits almost any design. The problem with Joomla is that it was built with SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) and all its complexities in mind. In addition, customizing the functionality of a website running on Joomla can be very difficult. There are few resources on how to modify Joomla! system files. Even fewer focus Joomla developers for help. Unfortunately, the CMS (Content Management System) has not experienced widespread adoption rate of WordPress.

Joomla! original installation is not SEO friendly. Should be put in place a set modules for the static keyword-based URL, and an option to add titles and meta information on each page. Navigation and options of staff are limited and complicated. You really need to master Joomla for optimizations, and benefit from jQuery and HTML5.

Admin Panel Joomla is easy to use if you work as a team that require multiple contributors, content in the same place. Access levels are not as defined as WordPress and many other CMS out there. That creates a big problem in terms of management.

Challenges and obstacles of the project

Our site has been optimized and stable and when we decided to make this move. We were ranking for many competitive terms in Google and other popular search engines and I did not want to lose any of those results. Also, do not want to deal with any 301 redirects as it would take time for Google to re-index the pages. Basically, you want to absorb the opportunity costs of moving from one CMS to another.

It was essential to maintain the exact layout and look and functionality CMS in the new statistics confirm the commitment to high conversions with this design, one of the main reasons why we need this change was needed Live a dynamic map at all times with the "Update" field. (Exactly how Google wants it)

Narrative of the solution and the process

The migration process began by creating backup copies of everything and a "test" folder in the root directory of the Web server. By default the WordPress Installation files have been uploaded in the 'test' folder. Once installation is complete, proceeded to install our theme and plugin framework.

Website interface images were duplicated and moved our WordPress themes folder. Duplicate the CSS originally designed for the version of Joomla site and moved to the version of WordPress as well. We changed the names of the CSS code unique identification and class to match the names in the WordPress site. At this point, almost all design and layout automatically fell into place. There were some minor adjustments to correct errors CSS is not automatically set when you first implemented the CSS file.

We find some difficulties with our javascripts because we use the jQuery JavaScript library. WordPress also depends on jQuery for administrative functions. So when installing WordPress, including a version of jQuery - which can cause conflicts. To avoid this you insert a snippet of PHP code that makes the jQuery library in the way of "No conflict. "

All site content is doubled with the utmost attention to detail. It was vital for the good of our SEO efforts and PageRank the labels of the hierarchy, meta tags, page title, page content and h1 were identical. I repeat - must be identical.

Once we have taken care all duplicate pages and check each one individually, we were ready to begin testing the browser. Inevitably, minor corrections and modifications must be addressed.

Satisfied with the website, registered in the WordPress settings / options page and updated address to reflect the new location of the WordPress installation. Then we put a temporary page that notifies the user that the website will be for a while. Then remove all files from the Joomla system and replaced it with the WordPress files. It then deletes the temporary file that you just configured HTML. It also eliminates the base Data Joomla.

The new version of WordPress should live and work.

Expected and actual results

Not expected to have some free time or for any error 404. The fact that re-creates a URL in Joomla just as WordPress allows us to avoid making any redirects 301. We have not lost any range and organic Google due to the dynamic site map, our pages are tracked more accurately and frequently.

Conclusion

WordPress is a better solution than a CMS Joomla. The ease of use, support, software updates, security SEO features and many more features make this the clear choice for active Web site development, while maintaining optimal results SEO.

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