Mastering Joomla: How to Import Wordpress into Your Joomla Website

WordPress is a free, blog publishing platform that enables you to create a weblog on your website. This immensely popular open source blogging application is written in the PHP scripting language and backed by MySQL.

WordPress has evolved from a simple blog management application into a full content management system. Its features include link management, typographic filters, multiple authors, IP address blocking, and the ability to store a list of blog visitors.

While WordPress is a content management system like Joomla, there is a way to incorporate WordPress into your Joomla website so that you can access all of your blogs through Joomla. Importing WordPress onto a Joomla site requires a series of carefully executed steps.

This tutorial will walk you through two methods by which you can import Wordpress into your Joomla website. Here's how:

Step #1
First, you need backup your WordPress site so that you can be able to import it later. Simply use the backup manager included with WordPress.

Step #2
Once you have saved your WordPress site to your hard drive, you need to then install Joomblog. You can download the full Joomblog package from the link: extensions.joomla.org. You need to make sure that the package contains 4 files:

com_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (the main component)
mod_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (the module used for registering and moderating users)
bot_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (a bot that allows comments to blog posts)
plug_cbjoomblogtag 1.0.zip ( the Community Builder plug-in)

Step #3
Now that you have downloaded and installed Joomblog, you need to click Components. On the drop-down menu, click Joomblog.

Step #4
Now all you need to do is select the WordPress file you backed up and click Import WordPress.

You can now view your articles by clicking Content by Section and then WordPress_Joomla.

And you are done!

Import Wordpress into Your Joomla Website using JD-WordPress
An alternate method for importing your WordPress site on Joomla is by using JD-WordPress. This is a Joomla component designed to integrate WordPress into Joomla

Step #1
First, you need backup your WordPress site so that you can be able to import it later. Simply use the backup manager included with WordPress.
Next, download and install JD-WordPress.

Step #2
You will then need to import the WordPress backup file you had saved earlier into the directory being used by Joomla.

Step #3
Once the WordPress backup file has been uploaded, you need to click Components. On the components menu, you need to then click JD-WordPress and then Manage.

Step #4
Once accessed, you can edit each of your posts and put them in categories. Once you have sorted out all of your posts, you will then click Save.

And you are done!

Now that you have imported your WordPress site onto your Joomla site you can now start posting new blogs in addition to the blogs previously posted on your WordPress site.

By incorporating a blog publishing application like WordPress with Joomla, you now have more options available with your blog posts. You can now allow visitors to post comments and replies on your blogs in addition to the numerous features available on Joomla.