Full Site Migration
Content, media, users, menus, metadata and design moved and rebuilt as one project.
Website Migration · Joomla to WordPress
Move your Joomla site to a fast, easy-to-edit WordPress site, with every article, URL and ranking accounted for.
Introduction
EIT Connect's Joomla to WordPress migration service moves your content, users, design and search rankings to WordPress in one planned project. Many teams start looking because their Joomla version is no longer supported: Joomla 3 and 4 have stopped receiving security fixes, and Joomla 5 leaves active bug-fix support in October 2026. Others simply want a site their marketing team can update without a developer. Either way, we rebuild your site properly in WordPress rather than copying it across, so it's faster, cleaner and easier to run than the one you're leaving.
What We Offer
Everything you need to migrate Joomla to WordPress, from the first audit to life after launch.
Content, media, users, menus, metadata and design moved and rebuilt as one project.
Articles, categories, tags, images and files moved with formatting cleaned up along the way.
Joomla's SEF and non-SEF URLs mapped one by one to their new WordPress pages.
We convert Joomla to WordPress as a lightweight block theme, keeping your look or refreshing it.
Each Joomla extension matched to a trusted WordPress plugin, or rebuilt as a custom one.
User accounts, groups and access levels moved to WordPress roles, with a plan for passwords.
Products, categories, customers and orders from VirtueMart or HikaShop to WooCommerce.
Joomla to WordPress migration outsourcing for agencies, delivered under your brand and process.
Versions
We migrate from every Joomla version still in use, including very old ones.
Legacy sites, often with old extensions and non-SEF URLs. Unsupported for many years.
Reached end of life in August 2023 and no longer gets security fixes from the Joomla project.
Security support ended on 14 October 2025.
Still supported. Joomla 5 moves to security-only fixes in October 2026; Joomla 6 is the current release. We migrate these too when WordPress is the better fit.
How It Maps
| In Joomla | In WordPress | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Articles | Posts or pages | Blog-style content becomes posts; static content becomes pages |
| Categories (nested) | Categories or page hierarchy | Structure kept, URLs redirected |
| Menus and menu items | Menus | Rebuilt, with Itemid-based URLs redirected |
| Modules | Blocks, patterns or widgets | Rebuilt as reusable blocks where possible |
| Templates | Block theme | Rebuilt lightweight; not converted file by file |
| Components and extensions (such as K2, forms, galleries) | Plugins or custom code | Each one reviewed and matched or rebuilt |
| VirtueMart / HikaShop | WooCommerce | Products, customers and orders migrated |
| Users, groups and access levels | Users and roles | Roles mapped; password handling planned per version |
| Multilingual content | WPML or Polylang | Language versions and hreflang kept |
| SEF and non-SEF URLs | Clean permalinks | Every old pattern 301-redirected |
Tech Stack
Importers for speed, custom scripts for accuracy, tests for confidence.
Google Search Console 
WP-CLI 
WooCommerce Unsupported Joomla versions get no security fixes. A move puts you on a platform with frequent updates and a huge support community.
Your team updates pages with blocks and patterns instead of modules and menu settings.
Far more plugins, themes, developers and integrations to choose from as you grow.
How We Work
Seven steps, part of the same SEO-safe method behind all our website migration services.
Content, extensions, users, URLs, rankings and traffic recorded as a baseline.
Content model, extension replacements, design approach and a complete redirect map.
WordPress theme and features built on a private staging site.
Content, media, users and store data moved, then checked record by record.
Every redirect, form, page and device tested; staging crawled for errors.
Redirects live, sitemaps submitted, tracking confirmed, Joomla archived safely.
Ranking and crawl monitoring after launch, then ongoing care through our WordPress maintenance services.
Why EIT Connect
A Joomla to WordPress migration agency should know both platforms, not just the one you're moving to.
We also support Joomla sites, so we'll tell you honestly if upgrading Joomla suits you better. See our Joomla development services.
A clean WordPress build performs better than a direct copy of an old Joomla template. Our WordPress development team handles the build.
Joomla's messy URL patterns are mapped and tested before launch.
Metadata, headings, structured data and internal links kept, then monitored after launch with our WordPress SEO services.
One Joomla to WordPress migration solution covering content, design, extensions, users, store data and SEO, with no gaps between suppliers.
The most common reasons are security and ease of use. Joomla 3 and 4 no longer receive security fixes, and many teams find WordPress easier to update day to day, with a larger choice of plugins, themes and developers. If your Joomla site is on a supported version and works well for your team, upgrading Joomla can be a valid alternative.
A small business site usually takes a few weeks, including design rebuild, testing and launch. Sites with many extensions, member areas, multiple languages or an online store take longer. You get a timeline with your migration plan.
Cost depends on the amount of content, the number of extensions to replace, whether the design is kept or refreshed, user and store data, and languages. We share a fixed quote after auditing your Joomla site.
Not if the migration is done properly. We map every old Joomla URL, including non-SEF URLs, to its new WordPress page with 301 redirects, keep metadata and content, and monitor rankings after launch. A short fluctuation while Google re-crawls is normal.
Importer plugins are useful for moving articles, categories and media, and we use them where they help. They don't rebuild your design, replace Joomla extensions, plan redirects for every URL pattern or test the result, which is where most DIY migrations run into problems.
We review each extension and either match it to a well-supported WordPress plugin, rebuild it as a custom plugin, or recommend dropping it if it's no longer needed. Store extensions such as VirtueMart move to WooCommerce.
User accounts, groups and access levels move to WordPress. Whether passwords carry over depends on your Joomla version and setup; where they can't, we arrange a smooth password reset with clear emails to users.
Look for a team that audits your extensions and URLs before quoting, rebuilds the design rather than copying it, shows you a full redirect map, tests on staging, and monitors SEO after launch. Ideally they know Joomla as well as WordPress, so their advice is honest.
Get a free migration plan with an extension review, redirect approach and fixed quote.
