Mastering Joomla: How to Import Wordpress into Your Joomla Website

A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Integrating Your Wordpress Database to Your Joomla Site

WordPress is a free, blog publishing platform that enables you to create a weblog on your website. This immensely popular open source blogging application is written in the PHP scripting language and backed by MySQL.

WordPress has evolved from a simple blog management application into a full content management system. Its features include link management, typographic filters, multiple authors, IP address blocking, and the ability to store a list of blog visitors. 

While WordPress is a content management system like Joomla, there is a way to incorporate WordPress into your Joomla website so that you can access all of your blogs through Joomla. Importing WordPress onto a Joomla site requires a series of carefully executed steps.

This tutorial will walk you through two methods by which you can import Wordpress into your Joomla website. Here's how:

Step #1
First, you need backup your WordPress site so that you can be able to import it later. Simply use the backup manager included with WordPress.

Step #2
Once you have saved your WordPress site to your hard drive, you need to then install Joomblog. You can download the full Joomblog package from the link: extensions.joomla.org. You need to make sure that the package contains 4 files:

com_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (the main component)
mod_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (the module used for registering and moderating users)
bot_joomblog_2.2 RC4.zip (a bot that allows comments to blog posts)
plug_cbjoomblogtag 1.0.zip ( the Community Builder plug-in)

Step #3
Now that you have downloaded and installed Joomblog, you need to click Components. On the drop-down menu, click Joomblog.

Step #4
Now all you need to do is select the WordPress file you backed up and click Import WordPress.

You can now view your articles by clicking Content by Section and then WordPress_Joomla.

And you are done!

Import Wordpress into Your Joomla Website using JD-WordPress
An alternate method for importing your WordPress site on Joomla is by using JD-WordPress. This is a Joomla component designed to integrate WordPress into Joomla