Two years ago I was doing a lot of work with Joomla, most of the website Chris Robak and I developed under Web Butter were almost all Joomla backed, and we were pretty happy with that. So when I started working on Radar Redux I installed a copy of Joomla to run behind the scenes. For the most part it ran fine, but the non-programmers contributing there were lots of problems and fussy little features that hardly seemed worth the result.

Now it’s a year later and WordPress has definitely sped off into some great directions, I’m using wordpress for this site and a few others and it’s fantastic, and light weight. Far superior to Joomla now, for both small and larger sites. It has a great community developing addons and backing the software, and tons of great helpful documentation, where as for Joomla resources are few and far between.

While searching I came across a decent resource for pushing Joomla articles over to WordPress. You need to have a basic understanding of PHP and how your MySQL database is set up, ie access to usernames and passwords, i just made a new user for both the joomla and wordpress db with full privileges, and then give this a try. Keep in mind though, you are likely to loose all locally hosted image links as well as read more breaks, as this is a regular expression tactic, which joomla and wordpress handle differently.