Title: FG Joomla to WordPress Author: Kerfred Published: Февраль 13, 2012-ж. Last modified: Март 31, 2026-ж. --- Плагиндерди издөө ![](https://ps.w.org/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=976000) ![](https://ps.w.org/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=975975) # FG Joomla to WordPress Автору [Kerfred](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/) [Жүктөө](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress.4.34.0.zip) * [Кенен маалымат](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/#description) * [Сын-пикирлер](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/#reviews) * [Орнотуу](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/#installation) * [Development](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/#developers) [Колдоо](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/) ## Сүрөттөө This plugin migrates sections, categories, posts, images, medias and tags from Joomla to WordPress. It has been tested with **Joomla versions 1.5 to 6.0** and the latest version of WordPress 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* migrates Joomla sections as categories * migrates categories as sub-categories * migrates Joomla posts (published, unpublished and archived) * migrates Joomla web links * uploads all the posts media in WP uploads directories (as an option) * uploads external media (as an option) *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 Joomla 3.7+ custom fields * 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/](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 * Komento * 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/](https://www.fredericgilles.net/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/add-ons/) ### Demo ### Translations * English (default) * Esperanto (eo) * French (fr_FR) * Spanish (es_ES) * Italian (it_IT) * German (de_DE) * Polish (pl_PL) * Bulgarian (bg_BG) * Brazilian (pt_BR) * Greek (el_EL) * other can be translated ## Скриншоттор * [[ * Parameters screen ## Орнотуу 1. Install the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu => Add New => Upload => Select the zip file => Install Now 2. Activate the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu 3. Run the importer in Tools > Import > Joomla (FG) 4. 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.KG ### 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](https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/increase-memory-limit/). ### 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](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress) or to report bugs if you found some. ## Сын-пикирлер ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1c037a55ce10dae4da62d1304e15085455f51aa03a513c3ad75a1428871e10e8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Saves ton of time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saves-ton-of-time/)󠁿 [Simply](https://profiles.wordpress.org/simplybrf/) Февраль 5, 2026-ж. I’m using the Pro version and it saves tons of time migrating from Joomla to Wordpress. The support is also good. The plugin is straight forward, although you need to know how to lookup database users, password and sometime whitelist IP-adresses in the hostings firewall to migrate. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7e33213ca423b2cd648bff922f7d72da22f4b5a37f2e45540aacfd096af1e97f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great work and support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-work-and-support-7/)󠁿 [George Angelopoulos](https://profiles.wordpress.org/artupweb/) Январь 12, 2026- ж. Migration of Virtuemart Manufacturers, Categories and products completed successfully. Had a minor issue but talking to support was resolved very quickly. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1987677c05222694e32d1bce77921471399e14e58bff6047d1069d8765051b25? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Awesome support!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-support-951/)󠁿 [lucasnascimento](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lucasnascimento/) Октябрь 8, 2025- ж. For the second time, I had to contact their support, and they’re unstopable. They always respond briefly and investigated the problem, bringing a solution. I recommend them 101%! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d49c6f2c9c97d616e262c19b80ac95ce47ae471ef39684a0bdccdeacd35011c2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Only 3 months of updates and riddled with bugs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-3-months-of-updates-and-riddled-with-bugs/)󠁿 [Boston Tom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tneveu/) Август 20, 2025-ж. UPDATE: Well, I was getting a bunch of errors in my debug log, and all pointed to the FG Joomla to WordPress. I keep it installed because if I turn it off, all my author aliases disappear. So I champed down hard on the bit and plunked down the Euros for the latest version. What a nightmare. First, I tried to create a support account at FG’s support center, but I never got a confirmation email to verify my email. Nothing in Junk/Spam either. This means I can’t create a support ticket. Frederick also doesn’t answer any emails I’ve sent to his support email. When I updated to the latest version of FG Premium, support for author aliases disappeared completely (the ONLY reason I still keep this plugin installed). I had to downgrade back to v3. UPDATE 2: Turns out all my emails were actually getting to FG support, but my email provider Comcast was discarding them without notification. I used the Comcast (Now Xfinity) webmail interface instead of my desktop email client, and there was nothing in the Junk/Spam folders from support. FG then used a different reply-to email that finally came through, with PDFs of their past responses to my earlier support requests. Foot in mouth, anyone? They are helping me with the issue, so let’s hope no more updates. Raising my rating. *********************************** As you can see by the other reviews, people either hate it or love it. I’m a web developer who helps clients transition from Joomla to WP, and if the site is large, this thing stalls and quits constantly. The other bonus? You only get 3 months of updates, and you aren’t notified in the backend when any updates are available! Now I’m stuck with the buggiest version on the planet, and the developer, while giving you a LIFETIME license, only provides 3 months of updates. What’s the use of having a lifetime license if you can’t get updates to fix all the bugs the developer created in the first place? Talk about having the consumer by the short hairs. There is also no discount program for people who have the so-called lifetime license, which would allow them to get updates at a discounted rate. You still have to PAY the full price again after only 3 months. More disturbing, the developer has the temerity to include a DONATE button on the PAID version! Now–and this is important– if you bought the premium version, please note it doesn’t import items generated by popular third-party components. So if you have K2 or Joomfish or EasyBlog or Jcomments (and who doesn’t have JComments or JomComments on a blog) or sh404sef, you have to purchase more plugins. And they ain’t cheap either. A perfect example is Virtuemart, which will set you back another 69 Euros! Worse still, if he does provide an update, you don’t get notified on the backend or even get a courtesy email from the developer to download the latest version before your subscription runs out. I had NO clue he had even updated the buggy plugins until it was too late and my 3 months were up. Sorry, but this is nothing but a greedy developer who provides a much-needed product at an exorbitant price for people transitioning from Joomla to WP. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/26ba66df88c6d9c9179f3a3d8377b66054d97dde29e22e97a2c061d4ff609d52? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Huge timesaver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-timesaver-25/)󠁿 [sactobob](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sactobob/) Август 17, 2025-ж. Converting an old Joomla site to WordPress is so much easier with this plugin. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7eaaa2e7cd734ea5f7cc1ed10fd5f382a98194e44d73a0d53861a0147c2b4d75? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[The plugin works perfectly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-plugin-works-perfectly-6/)󠁿 [ivankop](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ivankop/) Май 28, 2025-ж. The plugin works perfectly. Great support. [ Read all 334 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “FG Joomla to WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Мүчөлөрү * [ Kerfred ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/) “FG Joomla to WordPress” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “FG Joomla to WordPress” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Өзгөртүүлөр #### 4.34.0 * New: Compatible with PHP 8.5 * Tested with Joomla 6.0 * Tested with WordPress 7.0 #### 4.33.1 * Fixed: Some internal category links were not modified #### 4.33.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.9 #### 4.32.0 * New: Display an error if the allow_url_fopen variable is not set to On #### 4.31.1 * Fixed: Images containing line feed in the img tag were not imported * Fixed: Images containing srcset were not displayed #### 4.31.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.8 #### 4.29.4 * Fixed: Warning: Trying to access array offset on false #### 4.29.3 * Tested with WordPress 6.7.1 #### 4.29.2 * Tested with WordPress 6.7 #### 4.29.1 * Fixed: Rollback of last fix that prevents the relationship between the article and its category #### 4.29.0 * Fixed: The term meta key could be incorrect if the imported term is not a regular category * Tested with WordPress 6.6.1 #### 4.28.0 * New: Add the hook “fgj2wp_process_content” * Tested with WordPress 6.6 #### 4.27.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.5.3 #### 4.26.0 * Fixed: Files whose filename is longer than 255 characters were not imported * Fixed: Images were not imported by File System method #### 4.25.1 * Tested with WordPress 6.5.2 #### 4.25.0 * New: Import the PDF files contained in the “iframe” and “object” links #### 4.24.0 * New language: Esperanto * Fixed: Translations missing * Tested with WordPress 6.5 #### 4.23.0 * New: Run the plugin during the hook “plugins_loaded” * Tweak: Replace rand() by wp_rand() * Tweak: Replace file_get_contents() by wp_remote_get() * Tweak: Replace file_get_contents() + json_decode() by wp_json_file_decode() * Tweak: Replace json_encode() by wp_json_encode() * Tweak: Remove the deprecated argument of get_terms() and wp_count_terms() #### 4.22.0 * Fixed: Unsafe SQL calls #### 4.21.0 * Fixed: Rename the log file with a random name to avoid a Sensitive Data Exposure #### 4.20.2 * Fixed: Error:SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘p.featured’ in ‘field list’ #### 4.20.0 * New: Import the featured articles as sticky posts #### 4.19.1 * Tested with WordPress 6.4.3 #### 4.19.0 * New: Add the hook “fgj2wp_import_media_filename” * New: Add the hook “fgj2wp_process_content_media_links_new_link” #### 4.17.1 * Fixed: First image was not imported as the featured image #### 4.17.0 * New: Don’t import the images in duplicate when they have the same filename but a different title * Fixed: Plugin log can be deleted with a CSRF * Fixed: Found 3 elements with non-unique id #fgj2wp_nonce * Tested with WordPress 6.4.2 #### 4.15.0 * New: Sort the files downloaded by FTP or by the file system * Tested with WordPress 6.4.1 #### 4.13.0 * Fixed: Categories with duplicate names and with a parent with a greater ID were not imported * Tested with WordPress 6.4 #### 4.12.0 * New: Import the images description #### 4.11.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.3.1 #### 4.10.2 * Fixed: Warning about the Internationalization add-on even if it is installed and active #### 4.10.1 * Fixed: Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string #### 4.10.0 * New: Add the functions get_wp_post_ids_from_meta and get_wp_term_ids_from_meta * Tested with WordPress 6.3 #### 4.9.2 * Fixed: FTP connection failed with password containing special characters * Fixed: Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: preg_match(): Argument #2 ($subject) must be of type string, array given * Tested with WordPress 6.2.2 #### 4.8.1 * Tested with WordPress 6.2 #### 4.8.0 * New: Compatibility with PHP 8.2 * New: Check if Docman 2.x is used on Joomla #### 4.7.1 * Update from Premium version #### 4.6.1 * Fixed: The option “Import the media with duplicate names” didn’t work anymore( regression from 4.2.0). So wrong images were imported. #### 4.5.1 * Fixed: Images containing a backslash were not imported #### 4.4.1 * Fixed: Images containing the same alt and src, and with alt before src were not displayed in the post #### 4.4.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.1.1 #### 4.3.0 * Tweak: Add the function get_post_meta_like() #### 4.2.1 * Tested with WordPress 6.1 #### 4.2.0 * Tweak: Shorten the filenames if the option “Import the media with duplicate names” is selected * Tested with WordPress 6.0.3 #### 4.0.0 * Tested with WordPress 6.0.2 … #### 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 … #### 2.0.0 * Restructure the whole code using the BoilerPlate foundation * FAQ updated … #### 1.0.0 * Initial version: Import Joomla 1.5 sections, categories, posts and images ## Мета * Нуска **4.34.0** * Акыркы жаңыртуу **3 жума мурун** * Активдүү орнотуулар **7,000+** * WordPress нускасы ** 4.5 же андан жогору ** * Tested up to **7.0** * PHP нускасы ** 5.6 же андан жогору ** * Тилдер * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/) жана .[Greek](https://el.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress) * Тег: * [import](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/import/)[joomla](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/joomla/) [mambo](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mambo/)[migration](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/migration/) * [Advanced View](https://ky.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/advanced/) ## Рейтинг 4.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 306 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 6 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 3 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 2 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 17 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/reviews/) ## Мүчөлөрү * [ Kerfred ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/) ## Колдоо Issues resolved in last two months: 1 out of 3 [Колдоо форумун көрүү](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/) ## Кайрымдуулук Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? 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