Introduction

Migration & Conversion, Data Import & Export, Joomla Migration

Migrate your old Joomla! sites with the best, most popular, used on thousands of sites already, by thousands of satisfied users, component and keep your Google Rank safe.


SP Upgrade supports transferring between the various Joomla! versions as below:

1.5 -> 2.5
1.5 -> 3.x
1.5 -> 4.x
1.5 -> 5.x
1.5 -> 6.x
1.6 -> 2.5
1.6 -> 3.x
1.6 -> 4.x
1.6 -> 5.x
1.6 -> 6.x
1.7 -> 2.5
1.7 -> 3.x
1.7 -> 4.x
1.7 -> 5.x
1.7 -> 6.x
2.5 -> 3.x
2.5 -> 4.x
2.5 -> 5.x
2.5 -> 6.x
3.x -> 3.x
3.x -> 4.x
4.x -> 4.x
4.x -> 5.x
4.x -> 6.x
5.x -> 5.x
5.x -> 6.x
6.x -> 6.x

  • Joomla version 3.x and 4.x supported, refers to all releases of Joomla 3 and 4

The simple process

  • Install a new version of Joomla anywhere, (your live server, or a remote server, or even on your PC)
  • Install SP Upgrade,
  • Connect to the source database,
  • Click the transfer button,
  • Enjoy your new site.

Migrate everything with with no exceptions.

Core Data:
- Users
- Articles (along with their Sections and Categories)
- Contacts
- Web Links
- News Feeds
- Banners
- Menus ability to transfer all menu items, and not - only of the core components
- Modules ability to transfer all modules, and not only the core
- Tags
- All other extensions data!

Extensions:
- K2
- Kunena
- AcyMailing
- VirtueMart
- BreezingForms
- sh404sef
- JComments
- JEvents
- Community Builder
- ARTIO JoomSEF
- Phoca Download
- Phoca Gallery
- Phoca Guestbook
- Phoca Maps
- jNews

Excellent



Posted on 02 January 2013
This plugin did exactly what is was suppose to.



I had a site going from v1.5 to v2.5



Some issues, but the developer was very helpful and even went into my site to find the issue!



Articles converted are clean.



I Could not rate the developer more highly and 100% recommend this plugin .
Compared to my previous attempts with another well documented component SP Upgrade came up trumps with no real issues. Okay, some of my modules and templates didn't transfer over but I knew that because they were not 2.5 items. However I don't think that's an issue as I can install the latest (2.5) versions and rebuild that. I was more concerned with getting all my articles and members database transferred, hey presto! Job done. Forget the one with zero support, spend the cash on this and you won't look back. I'm told the component support is very good but I didn't need to ask them, neither should you if you read the user guide and many tutorials out there.

One thing, the images file doesn't (didn't) transfer. but it's a simple matter of copying the contents over in cPanel.

Just going through the process of re positioning my modules to fit the new template I have and pointing the menu items to my new top menu then it should be ready to launch.

Excellent Component



Posted on 18 December 2012
Migrating from 1.5 to 2.5 is a serious undertaking, especially if you have a lot of components. I tried jupgrade with no success and so went this route. With components especially (CB, JComments, etc...) you will need to upgrade to the latest version on your 1.5 installation and then export the dbase fields to your new 2.5 installation. But that said, the developers were very helpful and extremely prompt with followups to my questions and technical difficulties. They went above and beyond to help me track down issues that were cropping up in the migration that wasn't directly connected to their component. The money spent on this product and the support is well worth every dime!

Useful Migration Tool



Posted on 02 December 2012
Used to transfer 1.5 to 2.5 and worked with few problems.



Documentation is pretty useful and the extension seems designed to catch most problems that are likely to be encountered and actually offers choices as to how to deal with these problems. (Main problem encountered: issues with items with identical aliases).



Templates need to be migrated one at a time. And definitely a hit or miss (about 70% success rate).



Even though it is a paid product it works out less expensive than the free migration tools because it is quicker and a lot more reliable than the other tools I've tried.

Super



Posted on 01 December 2012
Great component, and very important for a novice like me : great support anh thanks for the patience they had with me ;-)
Worked perfect except images didn't all transfer, which turned out to be because there are so many it timed out. Simple solution provided promptly was to copy the images within my control panel. Well worth the small cost.

Another happy customer



Posted on 25 October 2012
Like others wrote: this is a bargain. I had some issues which were server-related. The support was great and the 2.5 site runs fine.

I wish I had found this component before, it is much better than the free jupgrade.

perfect



Posted on 08 October 2012
perfect match for my migration from 1.5 to 2.5



sunny regards



KurtSteiner
I have to say that this extensions is one of the best I found, after spending hours looking through forums for help regarding "Migration Undefined" for a certain other Upgrade component, I found this.. for €30 its nothing compared to the time that it saved.



Make sure to read the documentation first as it works in a different way to another Upgrade component. Great support too when I had a couple of questions at the start, finished upgrading dozens of sites that were 1.5.26 and now all are 2.5.7 with this and then i'm done



Keep up the good work!

Worth the small cost.



Posted on 16 September 2012
I have upgraded two sites with no issues. I had a lot of articles with the same alias but in different sections, so unfortunately it had to put a prefix on the URLs, but apart from that I am very happy. Perhaps a wizard would make the process a bit simpler.



The small cost was well worth the hours of headaches saved which I had experienced using another migration tool.
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Version:
6.1.0
Developer:
KAINOTOMO PH LTD
Last updated:
Oct 30 2025
7 months ago
Date added:
Nov 18 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
Includes:
c
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 J6
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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