FG Joomla to WordPress
by Kerfred 4.7 (335 reviews)

FG Joomla to WordPress

A plugin to migrate categories, posts, tags, images and other medias from Joomla to WordPress

FG Joomla to WordPress ranks #2,696 among WordPress.org plugins with 7,000+ active installations, is #44 of 753 in the Language Tools category, a 4.7/5 rating from 335 reviews, and was last updated Aug 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1
v4.34.1 Current Version v4.34.1
Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 14 Aug, 2026
Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#44 of 753 in Language Tools Top 5% by installs Downloads +12.6% this week
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Active Installs
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-6.1%
KW Avg Position
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Downloads
949.9K
+58 today
Support Resolved
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Rating
94%
Review 4.7 out of 5
4.7 (335 reviews)

Next Milestone 8K

Total Progress 39.2%
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Reviews & Ratings

4.7
335 reviews
Overall 94%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

4 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 3 days ago

  1. FG Joomla to WordPress [fg-joomla-to-wordpress] < 4.21.0

    CVE-2024-32788 · Fixed in v4.21.0

  2. FG Joomla to WordPress [fg-joomla-to-wordpress] < 4.17.0

    CVE-2024-24837 · Fixed in v4.17.0

  3. FG Joomla to WordPress [fg-joomla-to-wordpress] < 3.31.0

    Fixed in v3.31.0

  4. FG Joomla to WordPress [fg-joomla-to-wordpress] < 3.31.0

    Fixed in v3.31.0

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners migrating content away from a Joomla-based site. It transfers categories, posts, tags, images, and other media from Joomla into WordPress, including sections, web links, and internal link updates.

  • Migrates sections as categories
  • Migrates Joomla posts
  • Migrates Joomla web links
  • Uploads post media to WP uploads
  • Resizes images per WP settings
  • Sets first image as featured
  • Migrates meta keywords as tags
  • Imports articles as posts or pages

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about FG Joomla to WordPress

The posts put in trash are not migrated. But unpublished and archived posts are migrated as drafts. Some users reported that the Zend Framework causes an incomplete import. So, if all the data is not migrated, consider deactivating the Zend Framework during the migration. I get the message: "Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found" PDO and PDO_MySQL libraries are needed. You must enable them in php.ini on the WordPress host. Or on Ubuntu: sudo php5enmod pdo sudo service apache2 reload I get this error: PHP Fatal error: Undefined class constant 'MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND' You have to enable PDO_MySQL in php.ini on the WordPress host. That means uncomment the line extension=pdo_mysql.so in php.ini
No, it only reads the Joomla database. I get this error: Erreur !: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1193] Unknown system variable 'NAMES' It comes from MySQL 4.0. It will work if you move your database to MySQL 5.0 before running the migration. I get this error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" You must use at least PHP 5.3 on your WordPress site. I get this error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client It is a compatibility issue with your version of MySQL. You can read this post to fix it: http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=8667 None image get transferred into the WordPress uploads folder. I'm using Xampp on Windows. Xampp puts the htdocs in the applications folder which is write protected. You need to move the htdocs to a writeable folder.
You can use the Convert Post Types plugin after the migration.
No, you can deactivate or even uninstall the plugin after the migration (for the free version only).
Yes since version 1.45.0. First you must put these lines in wp-config.php: define('WP_DEBUG', true); define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true); And the messages will be logged to wp-content/debug.log.
The plugin imports the Joomla web links to WordPress links managed by the Link Manager plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-manager/ My screen hangs because of a lot of errors in the log window You can stop the log auto-refresh by unselecting the log auto-refresh checkbox

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