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Sometimes, you hang on to the old stuff as long as possible. One of my clients had an joomla 1.0.15 site, which didn't change that much over time, so we hadn't taken the time to migrate to 1.5. Time to make a change...

The remaining step for my migration to Joomla 2.5.1 was to install my extensions and ckeck if all is working.

Installed the most recent version of Easyblog and ArtBook. ArtBook is using Joomla content for display, so no additionel steps were needed besides checking the module parms. For Easyblog I had to export the easyblog tables from my old database, change the prefix to my new database's prefix and import it in the new database. Installing Easyblog's modules and chekcing the module settings and that was all there was to it. Really. Found another twitter module (again from RocketTheme) and published that and for now... I'm done.

Now that I got my templte working it is time to start fixing things in my joomla 2.5.1 installation. Following the guide / log from the SP upgrade extension, we'll see how far we get with the basic stuff and then it's time to start replacing the not upgraded stuff like editors, extensions and plugins.

Well. A RocketTheme template with the Gantry framework proves too much for the SP upgrade migrate-template option so it is time for plan B.

Plan B is: install the original RocketTheme template in the joomla 1.6+ compatible version, then replace images, css files and settings back to my changed layout.

So I migrated my site from joomla 1.5.25 to joomla 2.5.1 with SP upgrade. This extension also made a template migration. Let's see if we can install it and get my layout back.

Plan A, migrating from Joomla 1.5.25 to Joomla 2.5.1 did sort of work, but not good enough that I was happy with the results.

Time for plan B.

Plan B is simply migrating NOT with jUpgrade, but with SP upgrade, a commercial migration tool, which hopefully, - they promised on their website- will leave all article ID's and such intact, therefor less to fix after migrating.

Today, I started with my first trial migration from Joomla 1.5.25 to Joomla 2.5.1.

Used my own site for this, I kind of want to be on Jomla 2.5 asap.

I've got a few sites left that need to be migrated to 1.5.22 (or higher) and now it is time to do one I have been not too fond of starting, with docman, jevents and more.