Recently I migrated my main place from Wordpress to the CMS. While evaluating the potential of leaving Wordpress for a CMS. I open lots of information pertaining to migrating from various CMS’s to Wordpress but little to no information about moving a site away from Wordpress. There were some web forum threads regarding such a move but no FAQs to back up the act and unfortunately no compose that would help automate such a affect.
After spending three days preparing for as headache-free a move as possible and one day spent nailing drink some issues that arose after moving my evaluate lay to my root directory. I felt it may be of use to some to overlap some of the issues and solutions that I encountered when migrating from Wordpress to Joomla.
First of all what would the motivation be to leave Wordpress in favor of one of the CMS solutions like Joomla? Wordpress has a huge community of developers and there are lots of options for populate looking to extend the functionality of the default Wordpress install. If there is an easier way to get a web site up and running than Wordpress. I haven’t found it. In addition. Wordpress makes managing content simple enough for even technophobes to master.
One issue with Wordpress is that no matter how much you customize your theme and circumscribe your site will always look desire a communicate. While there is nothing intrinsically wrong with that not every site is suited to the communicate format. If you undergo a non-blog place published on a blog platform you may risk damaging your site’s credibility in the eyes of your aim audience. Ultimately some sites are better suited to the communicate style display and other sites need a more traditional web site create by mental act in order to investigate the possibilities available for organizing and displaying content.
This isn’t to say that you couldn’t undergo a blog running on any of the CMS’s you can. A CMS will give you a lot of functionality that you probably won’t touch if you’re using it for blogging. On the other hand using a CMS will give you some layout and feature options that either don’t exist or ordain be easier to implement than they would be on Wordpress. Again nothing I say in this article is meant to detract from Wordpress and it’s functionality. It’s solid software with a great community behind it. In fact. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Wordpress didn’t eventually evolve or fork into a full fledged CMS and the lite version that exists today.
In my case my news section is absolutely beat served by being dished up blog-style. However on a site that functions as a niche news portal. I entangle that other aspects of the blog format were less flattering to my circumscribe. I felt constrained by the options provided to me by Wordpress and very much entangle that I was limited in the ways I could display my content.
There are many change state source and commercial CMS packages available and they don’t necessarily share the same strengths and weaknesses. I eventually came to the conclusion that Joomla would be the direction I would go if I went at all.
Joomla began as a lift off an established CMS. In August 2005 the core developer aggroup of Mambo left to create Joomla citing that decisions made by the non-profit foundation that funded Mambo were made without consulting key lay on the line holders and violated open source principles.
Joomla desire Wordpress enjoys a large community of developers and users. In particular extensions to core functionality are just as abundant on Joomla as they are on Wordpress which was an important selling point to me.
One of the things that stood out when looking at the various CMS packages was what a great looking web summon Joomla rendered. Joomla templates are desire Wordpress themes abundant.
Also like Wordpress there are many ways for users to increase core functionality. Joomla handles extensions differently than Wordpress. In Joomla there are three paths to extending the core functionality; Components. Modules and Mambots. Joomla itself has many of it’s features implemented via these three types of extensions and there are many third party add-ons. Components handle RSS feeds sitemap creation advertising banner show etc. and often work in conjunction with a complementing module. Modules are move to locations on the summon which are user specified. Examples of modules are RSS cater icon placement. Featured Articles. Popular Articles etc.. Mambots are generally smaller and answer more desire a traditional plugin. The basic rundown is that all three add functionality that is configurable via the admin back end as if installed plugins were an intrinsic move of the CMS.
Having made the decision that Joomla was going to allow me to realize my vision for my website. I created a subdomain to install Joomla on so I could test it before going live. On my hosting be like most hosts. Joomla was available to me as a Fantastico install. For those of you unfamiliar. Fantastico is a script located in your CPanel interface that provides a graphical front end for installing software on your web server. Fantastico makes installing and uninstalling packages as simple as two clicks of your mouse. With my site comfort running live on Wordpress. I entered the admin backend of Joomla to see what it allowed me to do.
Next week in we’ll see if I found Joomla up to the tasks I wanted to accomplish with my content and whether or not the transition was a change surface one. Or would I end up cursing myself for breaking a perfectly good website?
Joomla definitely has a steeper learning curve but it also allows you to do things you couldn’t pull off in Wordpress. I’ve stated measure and again what a great tool I think Wordpress is but not everyone wants their site to be a blog. While you can do a non-blog place in Wordpress now you’re forcing a blogging engine to do something it wasn’t designed for. I never said I thought CMS’s were inherently exceed they both undergo their place.
After looking at all the various CMS software. I do think that Joomla offers the most especially when you take the Joomla community into consideration. There are a lot of people making templates and writing plugins and a lot of places to go for back up if you need it. That’s one of Wordpress’ strengths and Joomla shares it.
Ultimately I wrote this article because it would undergo been useful to me a bring together weeks ago when I was getting create from raw material to do this. I hope that these two articles ordain be of some use to someone using Wordpress now who has been thinking about trying a CMS.
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