Migrating from Joomla 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 or 2.5 to Joomla 4 (or Joomla 3)
Moving from older versions of Joomla will involve building a new Joomla 3 website and then migrating, where possible, your old data into your new website. It is not possible to do a simple upgrade. For this reason if you have a small website it is usually easier and cheaper to build a new website. If however you have a large website you may need to migrate that data.
Some reasons for migration
I have extensive experience migrating old Joomla 1.0, 1.5 and other old versions of Joomla websites to both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4. Many projects have included migrating thousands of pages and users and various extensions such as Virtuemart. Although there are migration scripts available to migrate some of the most popular extensions many do not. In most cases we can still help by creating a custom script to bring the data into your new Joomla website. In fact, it is also possible to migrate data from any database driven solution into Joomla.
The process for migrating from an old version of Joomla to Joomla 4 can be complicated and depending on the amount of data and extensions it can often cost as much or more than building a new website. If you would like to find out more about my Joomla Migration Service, please visit the Joomla Upgrade Migration Service page.
