Migrating Joomla! 1.5 to 3.x is a major migration. Major changes in features and database tables between these two versions makes content migration a pretty challenging task. We take care of this challenging task for you, efficienty and cost effectively.

We offer:

Joomla Core data and third-party extension data migration. Joomla Core data (components) are:

• Categories
• Articles
• Menus
• Modules (core modules – not third-party)
• Banners
• Contacts
• Messaging
• Newsfeeds
• Redirect
• Search
• Smart Search
• Weblinks

Third-party extension migration: needs to be researched to determine if it’s ready for Joomla 3.x and has a migration path or not.

Services include:

Prepare a Location for Joomla 3:
Make sure your server environment meets the technical specifications for Joomla! 3 before proceeding. Note: If your host does not meet the technical requirements, you will need to change hosts.

Set up a Development Location:
• Create a testing site or build area to work in with one of the following:
• A subdomain
• A subdirectory
• A local device via WAMP , MAMP , LAMP , XAMPP .
• A new hosting account on a temporary domain in the root (if you would like to change hosts in the process of migration)
• Restoring a site on a local device. See Installing Joomla locally and Setting up your workstation for Joomla development.
• Restoring a site with Akeeba Backup (read the developer documentation or videos for how to restore a backup of an Akeeba Backup file).

 

Content Migration Process

We follow a 26 Point migration process:

• Migrate all core data you want to move to Joomla 3.x. Move Sections and Categories. 

• Run the Database Fix

• Install your new template or converted template so that you can see your content. 

• Add new menus if the migration tools didn’t bring over menus. 

• Add modules if the migration tools didn’t bring over modules. Change the module positions to the positions in your new template if required so that your modules show up correctly.

• Check for duplicate alias issues and fix them.

• Check internal links. If any are broken, fix them.

• Take a backup.

• Install other third-party extensions and configure them (like editors, Akeeba backup, slideshows, or plugins).

• Take a backup.

• If your website has large extensions with data to migrate, do each one according to the developer documentation and then take a backup after each one.

• If our migration tool didn’t move the images, we will move your images from the 1.5 site to the 3.x site. 

• Fix asset issues. 

• If you are going to add anything to your site or use new core features like Tags, get them set up and configured at this time.

• Check your URLs on the Joomla 3 site and compare to the Joomla 1.5 site. 

 

• Migration SEO Tips Series – Part 1 – Planning Your Link Migration Strategy ; and

• Migration SEO Tips Series – Part 2 – Monitoring Your Migrated Site’s Health .

• Take a backup.

• Check everything.

• Clean up more.

• Test everything.

• Take a backup.

• Move or change or add updated data from the 1.5 site to the Joomla 3 site.

• Add google analytics to the template or use a third-party plugin.

• Check Global Configuration and make sure all is as it should be.

• Take a final backup of the Joomla 3.x site.

• Take a final backup of the 1.5 site.

• Move your 1.5 site from the root to another subdomain or subdirectory or simply delete it (this is so that you have it again for a brief time if you need to refer to it).

• Backup and restore or simply move files to restore your 3.x site to the root of your hosting.

• Enable .htaccess if necessary for SEF URLs.

• Create a sitemap and submit to Google Webmaster Tools or any other search engine you would like.

• Do all your redirects from the spreadsheet you created earlier for URLs that changed in the migration process.

• Make any other changes that needed to wait until the 3.x site was live.

• Test again.

• Take another backup.

• Kill any instance(s) of the 1.5 site as soon as possible.

• Remove all other dev sites you may have been working with or keep them up-to-date if they are running a current version in order to ward off hack attempts on your server.

• Project delivered!