Why Joomla owners are moving now
Two things changed, and together they turned a preference into a deadline.
Joomla 3 reached end of life in August 2023. Its extended security support then closed in February 2025. So a site still on Joomla 3 gets no security updates at all, from the project or from anyone else. That differs from merely running an old version, because every newly disclosed vulnerability now stays open permanently.
Meanwhile the upgrade path inside Joomla is not one step. You move 3 to 3.10, then 4.4, then 5.4, and on to 6. Extension compatibility needs resolving at each stage. So owners compare that sequence against a single move to WordPress, and many pick the move. Extensions with no maintained Joomla successor make that choice easier still.
What actually transfers, and what does not
Being specific up front separates a quote you can trust from one that gets revised.
Transfers reliably
Articles, categories, section structure, images and media, and registered users. Import tooling handles these well, and they rarely cause trouble.
Has to be rebuilt
Your template, because Joomla templates have no WordPress equivalent. Every extension, because a Joomla extension is not a WordPress plugin. You choose a replacement rather than convert one. Menus and module positions do not map one to one. Contact forms need rebuilding, and so does the route their submissions take.
The part that decides your traffic
Joomla URLs often carry article IDs, category paths and index.php fragments. WordPress will never reproduce those. So every existing address changes, and each one needs a redirect to its closest real equivalent. That map is the highest-value artefact of this work. We build it from a crawl of your live site, never from memory. Google’s site move guidance explains why this step protects what you have earned.
How this Joomla to WordPress migration service is run
Diagnosis comes first, as it does with everything here. Before any quote we establish what your Joomla install actually contains. That means the version, the extension inventory, the address count, and whether anything depends on code nobody can maintain.
That produces a written scope naming the exclusions. Scope matters more on migrations than on repairs. Undiscovered work is exactly what turns a fixed price into an argument. From there we follow the sequence on the migration overview: inventory, structure, content, redirects, rebuilds, then verification while the old site still answers.
Nothing gets switched off until the new site works. Keeping Joomla running costs a little hosting for a few weeks. In return you can check anything you find later, and that trade is worth making every time.
What this costs, and why we will not publish a figure
Joomla migrations vary more than most, because the extension inventory drives the work. No two Joomla sites carry the same one. A brochure site with a handful of articles and no custom extensions is a small job. A site running a membership component, a directory and a bespoke form builder is not. A headline price would only cover one of them, so we would quote a number and then revise it upward.
So we confirm scope and price in writing before implementation begins. The diagnosis has value on its own. In fact, if your site is simple enough to move with an import plugin and an afternoon, we will tell you that, and you should do exactly that. Our pricing approach explains the reasoning in full.
When staying on Joomla is the better answer
There are real cases, and a page selling the migration should still name them.
Maybe you run a current, supported Joomla release. Maybe your team knows Joomla and nobody wants to relearn an editor. Maybe nothing you need is blocked. Then the security argument above does not apply to you, and neither does the deadline. Upgrading inside Joomla is the cheaper move.
Equally, you might be leaving because the site keeps breaking or feels unmaintained. That finding is about maintenance, not platform, so it follows you to WordPress unless somebody owns it afterwards. Our guide on what actually breaks in a migration covers that failure mode and the others worth planning for.
Start with a diagnosis
Send the site address, roughly how many articles it has, and a list of the extensions you rely on. That is enough to scope the work properly rather than guess at it.
You get the address plan, the extension replacements, the risks and the price in writing. Our published scope shows the limits before you commit. Once the site runs on WordPress, the maintenance obligation is continuous, so most people settle ongoing care at the same time rather than after the first incident. To begin, start a diagnosis.