How to Migrate Joomla K2 to WordPress

Without Skipping a Beat [Tutorial] It’s known fact the prosperous website management requires the mixture of advanced functionality and your creativity. At

the same time, how to turn them into reality with the minimum efforts investments? Basically, everything depends on the

choice of your CMS platform. Distinguishing the source features of the optimal CMS solution, they are ease of use,

flexibility, and great website performance.

However, when you start running your site on the one CMS software, it doesn’t mean that it will meet your demands and

requirements in the future. Usually, when the progress is not visible any more, you have to give a try to another CMS

platform.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to migrate Joomla K2 to WordPress without your website data and traffic losses.

Take Over a Business

Before you have started transferring your site content to WordPress, look through the “to do” list and make sure everything is in its proper

place:

1. Install your new WordPress site, set a new theme, and install the necessary plugins.

2. Inform your site users about your migration. However, the site will be under maintenance, if you migrate your content with CMS2CMS.

3. Get ready to your migration process – make you some coffee or tea and sit cosily.

Step-by-Step Guide to Move Joomla K2 to WordPress

Stage 1. To proceed with the straightforward and fast import from Joomla K2 to WordPress (not to make your coffee cold), register CMS2CMS account or use

your Google+ or Facebook account.

Stage 2. Specify the URLs of your Joomla K2 and WordPress websites in the provided fields in your migration wizard.

In case you haven’t installed your new WordPress site yet, you may still see how the service works. Just check the corresponding box and choose your CMS

platform type, in this case select WordPress.

Stage 3. Now, you have to upload the bridge file to your local computer. It will be saved as ’cms2cms.zip’, extract it to the folder and remember its location. Also,

there are a few steps you should proceed with via FTP client software (any type).

To connect to your websites, you should know your FTP host, username, and password.

Then, transfer ’cms2cms’ folder that you’ve extracted from the zip to the root folder of your Joomla K2 and WordPress sites. This means both your website are

connected with each other.

Stage 4. Now, go back to your wizard and verify the connection bridge between your sites. After that you’ll be able to choose the additional options to make your

Joomla K2 to WordPress migration even more completed:

Migrate your Media Files

Import your internal links in accordance to the rewrite rules of your WordPress site

301 redirect from your Previous URLs to the New URLs to preserve your SEO juice.

Clear your tested data on WordPress CMS platform.

Stage 5. After that, you may proceed with your migration. Press ‘Start Free Demo’ of 10 pages and related entities of your Joomla K2 to check the service in

action and then, you may start your Full Migration to get the new website with all your content.

Are you ready to move your Joomla K2 to WordPress right away? Register your account and try the free Demo Migration to check for yourself – it couldn’t be

easier.

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