: How can I transfer article content from old Joomla 1.5 site to new 2.5 site I have an existing Joomla 1.5 site and am intending to wipe it and install a brand new 2.5 site. I will pick

@Moriarity557

You may tranfer your data automatedly. I have imported articles, images, user, internal links and other entities. I was recommended online service cms2cms. it made all this job really fast, i've just pressed some buttons)

wish you luck!
Take care of your content))

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@Welton855

While JUpgrade is recommended (and does copy media like images etc) it can often be problematic. We've had much more success with SP Upgrade for full site migrations.

For transferring just the article content you will probably be better served by J2XMLImporter which focuses on the content (ie. articles plus categories, users & weblinks ([all required for articles]). We've used this successfully for sites that don't require anything other than the core content to be moved.

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@Rivera981

No, don't copy the tables - that schema has changed quite a bit. You can install the free JUpgrade extension, which will download and install a 2.5 into a subfolder of your website and populate the new DB with your content, categories, users, etc. It can also handle some 3rd party extensions like Community Builder, Virtuemart and Kunena. That's the official method of doing a migration to 2.5.

More info here: www.cmsbloke.com/migrating-to-joomla-2-5-step-by-step-tutorial/ and here docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_Joomla_1.5_to_Joomla_2.5
Images and media will need to be copied over manually as these extensions only update the DB.

Make sure your php timeouts aren't too short as some of the steps can take a while & make sure you backup first. ;-)

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