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Joomla to Wordpress Upgrade Options
November 05, 2013, 08:57:19 pm
My organization's website is due for an overhaul and we are going to do a complete redesign of the website moving from Joomla to Wordpress (or maybe Drupal 7/8).  We want to continue using CiviCRM, however, we don't have much data in CiviCRM and have the following questions:

1.) Is it better to go with a fresh install, import (manually re-enter some) data, and recreate the few basic custom data profiles we'd created?

2.) How difficult is it to tie the current CiviCRM database to a fresh WordPress install? (we would have to hire someone to do this)

3.) We want constituents to be able to login and self manage contact information, donation history, membership renewals, event registrations, and t-shirt purchases. Would Drupal be better for this or can Wordpress handle the same functionality?


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Re: Joomla to Wordpress Upgrade Options
November 05, 2013, 09:16:18 pm
1) I'd only do this if you have no data to speak of.
2) It's really not that hard to move a Civi database from one website to another. Civi is pretty self-contained.
3) Drupal is undoubtely better for this because of the flexibility offered by Views and Webforms, but the tradeoff is that WP is easier for non-techie staff to do simple stuff like edit web pages.
You might want to experiment and try setting up your user forms using only built-in Civi functionality. If you can do it without leaning on the features in Drupal Views and Webforms, then you'll be fine in WP.
You could do your experiment in Joomla - its Civi integration is basically at the same level with WP.
Try asking your question on the new CiviCRM help site.

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Re: Joomla to Wordpress Upgrade Options
November 05, 2013, 09:27:23 pm
Thanks Coleman.  We have a test Wordpress site that I will install CiviCRM onto and test the set-up we need and go from there.  Glad to know we don't really need to re-enter the data, even though it's not that much.

I wish Drupal 8 was coming out sooner.....oh well.... :-\

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