Is your outdated Joomla website costing you customers, credibility, and search visibility? We can migrate your old Joomla 2.5, Joomla 3, or Joomla 4 to Joomla 6.0 while preserving your accumulated data. We also preserve your existing SEO-friendly URLs wherever possible to maintain Google Search ranking.
We spent time learning Joomla core architecture and how all features work together. We understand its extension system, routing, template framework, and core database structure. This knowledge allows us to migrate complex websites with custom components, modules, plugins, and large databases.
We perform all migration work on a local or staging server, so your existing website keeps running without any problem. You can continue business operations as usual.
Migration becomes harder as your website gets older. However, it is still doable.
We also provide Custom Joomla website development services and Joomla website modernization services.
Our legacy Joomla website migration consists of the following steps:
1. Assessment – Identify features that may break after the migration.
2. Website backup – Take a complete website backup with files, database, source code, scheduled jobs, and more.
3. Third-party extensions audit – Find all third-party extensions. And see if they are Joomla 6 compatible.
4. Existing template review – Understand the existing template and its layout, styling, JavaScript assets, and other resources.
5. Local or staging migration – Set up the website on a local or staging server with the existing backup taken in step 2.
6. Database migration – Import the existing database to the local or staging server before upgrading it to Joomla 6.
7. PHP/server upgrade – Start by upgrading the PHP version and servers.
8. Joomla core upgrade – Upgrade the Joomla core and migrate your website to Joomla 6.
9. Validating migration – Validate migration with end-to-end automated tests.
10. Production deployment – Push all changes to a live site or point your domain to the new staging server.
11. SEO verification – Verify that all old SEO URLs point to the correct URLs on the new site. Add 301 redirects, if required.
12. Monitoring after launch – Monitor the production server for any errors.
During the migration work, we aim to keep your business running with minimal downtime.
Also, we create end-to-end automated Playwright tests. We use them to validate your website functionality throughout the migration.
What we can migrate.
All Joomla websites have different resources due to the business owners' requirements. However, some common migration artifacts include:
- Articles and categories.
- Media library with all files.
- Menus and custom fields.
- User accounts and their permissions.
- Third-party extensions (components, modules, plugins).
- Templates.
- SEO URLs, metadata, and sitemap.
- Various verification files used for third-party integration.
The list may include other artifacts depending on custom features on your website.
Migrate Joomla 2.5 website to Joomla 6
Problems with Joomla 2.5:
- Old architecture.
- Requires PHP 5.x.
- Obsolete and discontinued third-party extensions.
- Unsupported modern features.
- Security problems.
- Performance problems.
Depending on the amount of data and installed custom extensions, we change our migration.
Often for older Joomla websites, rebuilding the application with Joomla 6 is safer, more secure, and more reliable while migrating all datasets, files, and other resources.
Migrate Joomla 3 website to Joomla 6
Joomla 3 was architecturally improved over Joomla 2.5. But it has the same challenges of obsolete extensions, older PHP, and security problems.
Once again, we could rebuild your website on Joomla 6 if it has a large amount of data. It makes no sense to waste your time migrating data from version to version.
Migrate Joomla 4 website to Joomla 6
Joomla 4 was the first version to include proper backward compatibility plugins. This migration requires an extensive audit of third-party extensions.
We need to verify:
- Installed components have compatible versions.
- Installed modules have compatible versions.
- Installed plugins are still supported.
- Template compatibility.
However, the Joomla 4 migration is easier compared to older versions.
Migrate Joomla 5 website to Joomla 6
Your website normally doesn’t require a rewrite or any hard migration. It is straightforward to upgrade to Joomla 6 if your website does not install many third-party extensions.
However, we still perform our assessment and an audit of third-party extensions before upgrading your website.
Not sure which Joomla version your website is running? You can order your website migration or book a technical audit for a full report.