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1. Geet Jacobs
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hello there,

   I am about to move a site over from joomla and I read about keeping SEO rankings and using htaccess to rewrite as below.

   Joomla URL
   site.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=29

   WordPress URL
   site.com/?p=68

   Does the plugin insert the post/page from joomla to the same ID as wordpress posts?

   Thanks!

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/joomla-to-wordpress-migrator/

2. christian_gnoth
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   no!!!

   you have to create redirects. actually it is better to use the permailnk structure from wordpress - then the urls have the title inside, not the post id.

3. Geet Jacobs
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thank you for the reply.

   I always use permalinks, but sadly the joomla coder didnt active them on his build, so the search engines have indexed the whole site with that ugly url above.

   I was planning to use redirects to route the bad URL and regex it to a wordpress url, which let me not loose any rankings and wordpress would rewrite site.com/?p=68 to site.com/page-name.

   This will only work if the joomla article ID and wordpress post ID are the same though.

   Unless you know how to handle it better?

   Thanks again!

4. miladk
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi, i have the same problem.
   Our joomla links have all the post ID in the URL.
   It should be a way to keep the post ID's after migrating to WP.

5. Kerfred
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   If many people are interested of keeping SEO by redirecting the old Joomla URLs to the new WordPress URLs, I can take some time to develop such a feature in my plugin fg-joomla-to-wordpress. But this will be a premium version (not free) as it requires some extra work.
   Please tell me if you are interested.
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/

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