Sorry for the late response ; I was on holidays.
The differences between the free and Premium versions are:
– imports the users
– works with Joomla 1.0, 2.5, 3.0 and Mambo
– enables the use of the add-ons
– redirects the standard Joomla URLs to the WordPress URLs
In your case, you are using a SEF plugin for the SEO and you are not using the standard Joomla URLs. That’s why you didn’t see the difference.
I’m very sorry if you had a bad experience.
In your case, you are using a SEF plugin for the SEO and you are not using the standard Joomla URLs.
Please, specify for the next customers this particular behaviour. After 300 tests, I’ve gave up and started to correct internal urls manually.
It’s enough disable shsef404 and run the script.
Nothing works still properly, but with 1000 articles and 200.000 internal urls (the function to correct them don’t work) to sections/categories/url believe me, it’s not a joke.
Im wondering why you (liquidarea) still gave this plugin a 5 stars? In your opinion is this worth it? I have a client the wants to move from joomla to WordPress, I was going to buy this but then I saw your review about bad customer service, which stops me cold until I get more information. Please let me know.
My 5 stars went out of my fingers without my control, and I couldn’t change it back.
About what I’ve said, my experience was a nightmare, either with the site, or with the manual remake of the all internal/external links. I’ve used after the import process a tool for WP, search ans replace, so I’ve been able to correct the 35% of the issue.
But with 1000 articles, and 10,000 internal links to correct, and with a customer that paid me in advance because of no time to work….sorry but this was not neither the good tool (the free version is the same), nor the good assistance. It’s my experience. As he stated, if you have some SEO 3rdy part disable it and run the tool.
I say to myself: WHY DON’T YOU WRITE IT IN A READ ME FILE?
My real stars are -1
Rob, as you can see in the reviews and in the forum, everyone is very satisfied about the plugin and about my support, except liquidarea just because I was on holidays at the time he used the plugin.
Liquidarea, following your advice, I pointed out on the Premium page that the plugin redirects only the standard URLs. And I repeat that I’m very sorry if you had a bad experience with it. But the free and the Premium versions are definitely not the same.
Rob, feel free to try the free version before buying.
Yes, this is only my experience, due the shsef404 generated url.
I cannot write that your script is bad for everyone, I don’t know.
I assume one has to write about experience that personally faces. And this was my thread with my experience.
If you clearly stated what you’ve said, it’s perfect.
Unfortunately I wasn’t so lucky.
BTW kerfred is a good and gentle boy. This is clear, and this is a value added to the script.
