The release of Joomla 2.5 Stable version is a few days ago, Do you really need to migrate to Joomla 2.5 now? Yes, new features in Joomla core definitely excite us, but pondering over existing functionalities on your site. Because the changes from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 are so large and because of the massive effort put into getting Joomla 2.5 to where it is today, there is no core upgrade path, this is indeed a migration.

Joomla 1.6 took three years to develop, and lasted for six months before 1.7 was launched for second six-month period. The numbering system has been changed and now the stable release starts with 2.5 to match Joomla 1.5.

This guide will take you many 3rd party Joomla extension on the JED, through the general procedure of how to migrate to Joomla 2.5.

1, jUpgrade (Free)
jUpgrade allows you to migrate from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5. the most curent version is jUpgrade v1.2.4.

2, J2XML Importer (Free)
J2XML Importer is the easy way to migrate contents from Joomla!® 1.5 to 1.6/1.7/.

You have to export the contents from Joomla!® 1.5 using J2XML and then import into Joomla!® 1.6 web site using J2XML Importer.

3, SP Upgrade (Commercial, €24.95)
Migrate your old sites from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 with one-click and keep safe your Google Rank. All 2.5, 1.7 and 1.6 releases are supported. Support to Migrate Joomla 1.5 template to Joomla 2.5.

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