Plugin / FG Joomla to WordPress

Changelog

3.61.2

• Tested with WordPress 5.3

3.61.1

• Fixed: Wrong number of imported media displayed
• Fixed: Wrong number of imported tags displayed
• Tested with WordPress 5.2.4

3.60.0

• New: Check if JDownloads is used
• Tweak: Refactoring

3.59.1

• Fixed: Logs were not displayed if the URL is wrong in the WordPress general settings

3.59.0

• New: Download the media even if they are redirected
• Fixed: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
• Fixed: Copying to clipboard wasn’t working if something was already selected

3.58.0

• New: Add the max_allowed_packet in the Debug Info tab

3.57.0

• New: Add an help tab
• New: Add a debug info tab
• Tested with WordPress 5.2.3

3.56.0

• Fixed: [ERROR] Error:SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘c.state’ in ‘where clause’
• Fixed: Update the pt_BR translation

3.55.1

• Fixed: Notice: Undefined variable: sql
• Fixed: the featured image was not removed from the content on Mambo databases

3.54.3

• Tested with WordPress 5.2.2

3.54.1

• Tested with WordPress 5.2.1

3.52.2

• Fixed: Missing content when the content contains without an href attribute

3.52.1

• Tested with WordPress 5.1.1

3.51.1

• Tested with WordPress 5.0.3

3.51.0

• New: Allow to download media from sites with a non valid SSL certificate
• Fixed: Some NGINX servers were blocking the images downloads
• Tested with WordPress 5.0.2

3.50.0

• New: Cache database results to improve import speed
• New: Add hooks
• Tested with WordPress 5.0

3.48.1

• Fixed: Images with HTML entities in the scr attribute were not imported

3.48.0

• Tested with Joomla 3.9

3.47.0

• New: Generate the audio and video meta data (ID3 tag, featured image)

3.46.0

• Tweak: Rename WPML by Internationalization

3.44.0

• Tested with WordPress 4.9.8

3.43.1

• Fixed: Images not imported when the “data-src” attribute is used

3.43.0

• Tweak: Add the function wc_upload_dir()
• Tested with WordPress 4.9.6

3.42.0

• New translation: Greek (thanks to Kostas A.)
• Fixed: The media containing “+” in their filename were not imported

3.41.1

• Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: date

3.41.0

• New: Check if Community Builder 2.x is installed
• Tested with WordPress 4.9.5

3.40.0

• New: Check if we need the HikaShop module
• Change the URL of the WP Filesystem SSH2 plugin
• Tweak: Change the scope of the upload_dir() method

3.39.0

• New: Add the “fgj2wp_pre_modify_link” filter hook

3.38.0

• New: Allow the SFTP connection. It requires the plugin “WP Filesystem SSH2”.

3.37.0

• New: Check if we need the plugins RSGallery, Simple Image Gallery, Simple Image Gallery Pro, Rokbox, AllVideos
• Update the Spanish translations

3.36.0

• New: Add the get_params() method (used in the Simple Image Gallery add-on)

3.35.1

• Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: date
• Tested with WordPress 4.9.4

3.35.0

• New: Import the images embedded in the categories description
• New: Allow HTML tags in categories description
• Fixed: Links modified with wrong value

3.34.0

• Tweak: Use WP_IMPORTING
• Tested with WordPress 4.9.2

3.33.3

• Fixed: Media containing “&” were not imported
• Tested with WordPress 4.9.1

3.33.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.9

3.33.1

• Fixed: The width in the image caption was sometimes missing
• Tested with WordPress 4.8.3

3.33.0

• Fixed: Sanitize the file names with spaces
• Tested with Joomla 3.8
• Tested with WordPress 4.8.2

3.32.0

• New: Check if we need the RSBlog module

3.31.0

• New: Test if Falang is used on Joomla
• Fixed: Security cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Ajax importer
• Tested with WordPress 4.8.1

3.30.0

• New: Import the image caption in the media attachment page

3.28.0

• New: Modify internal links in drafts

3.27.0

• New: Block the import if the URL field is empty and if the media are not skipped
• New: Add error messages and information

3.26.0

• New: Add the percentage in the progress bar
• New: Display the progress and the log when returning to the import page
• Change: Restyling the progress bar
• Fixed: Typo – replace “complete” by “completed”
• Tested with WordPress 4.8

3.25.0

• Compatible with Joomla 3.7
• Tested with WordPress 4.7.4

3.23.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.7.3

3.23.1

• Fixed: Images not imported on some servers
• Tested with WordPress 4.7.1

3.23.0

• Tweak: Code refactoring

3.22.0

• Tweak: Code refactoring

3.21.0

• New: Add an option to remove the accents from the medias (useful on Windows)
• Tested with WordPress 4.7

3.20.6

• Fixed: Existing images attached to imported posts were removed when deleting the imported data
• Fixed: Typo in Italian translation

3.20.5

• Fixed: Images not imported on HTTPS sites: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to https::80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)

3.20.4

• Fixed: Wrong progress bar color

3.20.3

• Fixed: The progress bar didn’t move during the first import
• Fixed: The log window was empty during the first import

3.20.2

• New: Check if the Community Builder module is required
• Fixed: The “IMPORT COMPLETE” message was still displayed when the import was run again

3.20.1

• Fixed: The images protected by a user agent protection were not imported

3.20.0

• Tweak: Code refactoring

3.19.1

• Fixed: Database passwords containing “<” were not accepted

3.19.0

• New: Modify the tags links in the post content

3.18.0

• New: Authorize the connections to Web sites that use invalid SSL certificates
• Tweak: If the import is blocked, stop sending AJAX requests

3.17.2

• Fixed: Review link broken
• Fixed: Imported tags were not removed when removing imported data only

3.17.1

• Fixed: Missing link between the post and its featured image
• Fixed: Wrong number of comments displayed
• Tested with WordPress 4.6.1

3.16.0

• New: Display the number of data found in the Joomla database before importing
• New: Display the needed modules as warnings before importing
• Tested with WordPress 4.6

3.15.3

• Tweak: Code optimization

3.15.2

• Fixed: the “Modify internal links” function could break some links

3.15.1

• Fixed: Internal links like catid=XXX&id=YYY were not modified
• Tweak: Speed up and reduce the memory consumed by the modification of the internal links

3.15.0

• New translation: Italian

3.14.0

• New: Compatible with Joomla 3.6

3.13.3

• Fixed: Display an error message when the process hangs
• Tweak: Increase the speed of counting the terms

3.13.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.5.3

3.13.1

• Fixed: Don’t import the introtext in the post content if it is marked as hidden on Joomla

3.13.0

• New: Compatibility between the Joom!Fish and Docman add-ons
• Fixed: Wrong redirect when an attachment has the same name as a post

3.12.0

• Fixed: Rewrite the function to delete only the imported data
• Fixed: Categories import can hang if the import counter was resetted and the imported categories were not deleted

3.11.0

• New: Option to import the featured images only

3.10.2

• Fixed: The message “[ERROR] The import process is still running. Please wait before running it again.” sometimes appears after the process has crashed, and it prevents the import process to resume
• FAQ updated

3.10.0

• New: Add some hooks
• Tweak: Code optimization
• FAQ updated

3.9.1

• Fixed: Images with line breaks inside the tag were not imported
• Tested with WordPress 4.5.2

3.9.0

• New: Allow image filenames starting with //

3.8.0

• Tweak: Add functions useful for add-ons
• Tested with WordPress 4.5.1

3.7.0

• New: Ability to stop the log window auto-refresh

3.6.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.5

3.6.0

• New: Compatible with Joomla 3.5
• Fixed: Images without slashes in their path were not imported

3.5.1

• Fixed: Import stopped when a post has no title or no content
• Fixed: The first image was not removed from the content when used both in the intro text and in the full text

3.5.0

• Fixed: Notice: Undefined variable: imported_tags
• Fixed: the progress bar was resetted when resuming the import

3.4.0

• New: Modify the first image options
• Tweak: Code refactoring

3.3.1

• Fixed: Error :SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘c.extension’ in ‘where clause’

3.3.0

• New: Use the WordPress FTP API instead of the phpseclib library
• New: Better handle the progress bar
• New: Don’t log the [COUNT] data in the log window
• Fixed: Browser tab crashed when too much data was displayed in the log window

3.2.0

• New: Modify the Joomla SEF links

3.1.0

• New: Brazilian translation added
• Fixed: When choosing “Import first image as featured only”, the first image was not removed from content if it was surrounded by a hyperlink

3.0.3

• Fixed: Articles got the unassigned category when the category is a duplicate

3.0.2

• Fixed: Infinite loop when some categories have duplicate names

3.0.1

• Fixed: After a resume, the posts were imported as uncategorized
• Tested with WordPress 4.4.2

3.0.0

• New: Run the import in AJAX
• New: Add a progress bar
• New: Add a logger frame to see the logs in real time
• New: Ability to stop the import
• New: Compatible with PHP 7

2.14.1

• Fixed: Medias with relative paths were not uploaded to the right folder when not using month- and year-based folders

2.14.0

• New: For the articles and categories whose alias is a date, the imported slug will be the title and not the alias

2.13.0

• New: Keep the Joomla media folder tree when the uploads are not organized into month- and year-based folders

2.12.0

• Fixed: Featured image issue

2.11.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.4.1

2.11.0

• Fixed: Categories with null description were not imported

2.10.0

• Tweak: Use the WordPress 4.4 term metas: performance improved, nomore need to add a category prefix
• Tweak: Optimize code
• Fixed: The notices and errors were sometimes displayed before the header is sent
• Fixed: Categories with duplicated names were not imported
• Fixed: The cache for the taxonomies different from category was not cleaned

2.9.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.4

2.9.0

• New: Add SFTP protocol
• New: Import the {audio} tag
• New: Add a link to the FAQ in the connection error message

2.8.0

• New: Add an Import link on the plugins list page

2.7.4

• Tweak: Code refactoring for unit tests

2.7.3

• New: Add the hook ‘fgj2wp_get_wp_post_from_joomla_url’
• Tweak: Code refactoring

2.7.1

• Fixed: Don’t display the warning about WPML if JoomFish is used
• Tweak: Change the range of the get_wp_post_id_from_joomla_id() function to be available for add-ons

2.7.0

• New: Add the FTP settings (used for Simple Image Gallery add-on)

2.6.0

• New: Make the platform more accessible to more languages
• Update all the translations

2.5.2

• New: Check if we need the WPML module

2.5.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.3.1

2.5.0

• Fixed some translations
• New add-on: WPML to move the multilingual content

2.4.0

• New: Add an anti-duplicate test if the user runs another import process again while one is still running
• Fixed: Solve conflicts between FG plugins by limiting the Javascript scope

2.3.3

• Fixed: Some medias with accents were not imported
• Tested with WordPress 4.3

2.3.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.2.4

2.3.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.2.3

2.3.0

• New: Change the video links {“video”} to WordPress video tags

2.2.2

• Fixed: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object

2.2.0

• Tested with WordPress 4.2.2

2.1.2

• Tested with WordPress 4.2.1

2.1.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.2

2.1.0

• Tweak: Restructure and optimize the images import functions
• Tweak: Move the suspend cache functions into the dispatch method

2.0.0

• Restructure the whole code using the BoilerPlate foundation
• FAQ updated

1.46.1

• Fixed: Remove duplicate hook in weblinks.php
• New add-on: User Groups

1.46.0

• New: Compatible with Joomla 3.4 (ignore weblinks)

1.45.0

• New: Log the messages to wp-content/debug.log
• Tweak: Code optimization
• FAQ updated

1.44.3

• Fixed: Import images even when there are linefeeds in the img tags

1.44.2

• Fixed: Don’t import the posts as duplicates if the categories are duplicated on Joomla

1.44.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.1.1

1.44.0

• Fixed: the joomla_query() function was returning only one row
• Update the German translation (thanks to Tobias C.)
• Update the Spanish translation (thanks to Jacob R.)

1.43.4

• Fixed: Multisite: Links that contain “:” were corrupted
• FAQ updated

1.43.2

• Tweak: Add hooks in the modify_links functions

1.43.0

• FAQ updated
• Tested with WordPress 4.1

1.42.0

• Tweak: Don’t display the timeout field if the medias are skipped

1.41.0

• New: Keep the anchor link when modifying the internal links
• Tested with WordPress 4.0.1

1.40.0

• Update the German translation (thanks to Tobias C.)

1.39.5

• Update the Spanish translation (thanks to Bradis García L.)

1.39.4

• Fixed: Allow backslashes in the articles content

1.39.3

• Fixed: Remove extra slashes in the media filenames

1.39.1

• Tweak: Simplify the posts count function

1.39.0

• New: Add a timeout option

1.38.1

• Fixed: Some image captions were not imported

1.38.0

• Fixed: The media filename was empty on the attachment page
• Tested with WordPress 4.0

1.37.0

• New: Help screen

1.36.0

• New: Functions to get the Joomla imported posts, categories and users
• New add-on: JReviews

1.35.0

• New: Function to get the Joomla installation language
• New add-on: Virtuemart to WooCommerce
• Tested with WordPress 3.9.2

1.34.2

• Fixed: Define the width and the height of the images only if it isn’t defined yet

1.34.1

• New: Modify the internal links for both posts, pages and custom post types

1.34.0

• New: Add option to automatically remove the WordPress content before each import

1.32.0

• New: Display the number of Joomla articles, categories, users and web links during the database connection test
• New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.3

1.31.4

• Fixed: Warning: Creating default object from empty value

1.31.3

• Fixed: “Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object” for versions of MySQL < 5.0.3

1.31.2

• New add-on: Docman
• Tested with WordPress 3.9.1

1.31.1

• New: Add a parameter to force the external media import

1.31.0

• New: Import Web links

1.30.0

• Tested with WordPress 3.9

1.29.4

• New: Change the visibility of some methods to use them in add-ons
• Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: width
• Fixed: Notice: Undefined index: height

1.29.3

• Fixed: Was displaying the warning “Your version of Joomla (probably 1.0) is not supported by this plugin.” when both the Premium and the free versions were activated
• Tested with WordPress 3.8.2

1.29.2

• New: Change the visibility of some methods to use them in add-ons

1.29.1

• Fixed: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object

1.29.0

• New: The required modules are listed when testing the connection to Joomla

1.28.0

• New: Nomore need to choose the Joomla version ; it is guessed by the plugin.
• New: Add a message when trying to import a Joomla 1.0 database

1.27.0

• New: Minor internal changes
• FAQ updated

1.24.4

• New: Add hooks
• Fixed: Notice Undefined offset

1.24.3

• Fixed: Don’t add the <!–more–> tag if the introtext is empty
• Tested with WordPress 3.8.1

1.24.1

• Fixed: Syntax error with parse_ini_string
• Fixed: Images containing “%20” were not imported into the post content
• FAQ updated

1.24.0

• New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.2
• New translation: Bulgarian (thanks to Hristo P.)

1.22.6

• Fixed: The «Remove only new imported posts» option was not removing anything
• Tested with WordPress 3.8

1.22.5

• Fixed: Archived posts were always imported as drafts in Joomla 2.5

1.22.4

• New: Display error message if PDO is not enabled

1.22.3

• New: Display SQL errors in debug mode
• Description updated

1.22.2

• New: Check if the upload directory is writable
• Tested with WordPress 3.7.1

1.22.0

• Fixed: Import the categories even when the articles are imported as pages
• Tested with WordPress 3.7

1.21.3

• Fixed: “Warning: sprintf(): Too few arguments” message for image captions with %

1.21.0

• New translation: Spanish (thanks to Bradis García L.)

1.20.1

• Fixed: Use the modified post date if the creation date is empty
• Fixed: Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object

1.19.3

• Fixed: Some spaces were removed (due to the extra newlines removal)
• Fixed: Better rule for the convert_post_attribs_to_array function
• Fixed: “WordPress database error Field ‘post_content’ doesn’t have a default value”

1.19.0

• New: Import the page breaks
• New: Option to import the Joomla introtext in the post and in the excerpt
• New: Use the show_intro article parameter to import the introtext in the content or not
• Tested with WordPress 3.6.1

1.18.0

• New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.1
• Fixed: Remove extra newlines

1.17.0

• New: Add automatically http:// at the beginning of the URL if it is missing
• New: Option for the first image import
• FAQ updated

1.16.1

• Fixed: syntax error, “unexpected ‘<‘” in version 1.16.0

1.16.0

• New: Option to import images with duplicate names
• New translation: Polish (Thanks to Łukasz Z.)
• FAQ updated

1.15.2

• Optimize the Joomla connection

1.15.1

• New: Option to not import archived posts or to import them as drafts or as published posts

1.15.0

• New: Import archived posts as drafts
• Tested with WordPress 3.6

1.14.2

• Fixed: The HTML classes were lost in the a-href and img tags
• Unset by default the checkbox «Import the text above the “read more” to the excerpt»

1.14.1

• Fixed: The caption shortcode is imported twice if the image has a link a-href pointing to a different image

1.14.0

• New: Import images captions
• Improve speed of processing the image links
• Update the FAQ

1.13.0

• Tested with WordPress 3.5.2
• New: Add a button to save the settings
• New: Improve the speed of emptying the WordPress content

1.12.1

• Fixed: Replaces the publication date by the creation date as Joomla uses the creation date for sorting articles

1.12.0

• New: Add a button to remove the categories prefixes
• New: Option to not use the first post image as the featured image

1.11.0

• New: Import external media (as an option)
• New translation: Russian (Thanks to Julia N.)

1.10.6

• Fixed: Categories hierarchy lost when parent categories had an id greater than their children

1.10.4

• Fixed: Posts were not imported when the skip media option was off

1.10.3

• Fixed: Categories hierarchy lost when parent categories had an id greater than their children (Joomla 1.6+)
• New: Add hooks for extra images and after saving options

1.10.2

• Tested with WordPress 3.5.1
• New: Add hooks in the modify_links method

1.10.1

• New: Add a hook for extra options
• Fixed: Move the fgj2wp_post_empty_database hook
• FAQ updated

1.10.0

• New: Compatibility with Joomla 3.0
• New: Option to delete only new imported posts without deleting the whole database

1.9.1

• Fixed: the internal links where not modified on pages

1.9.0

• Tested with WordPress 3.5
• New: Button to test the database connection
• New: Improve the user experience by displaying explanations on the parameters and error messages
• New: get_categories hook modified

1.8.5

• New: Option to not import already imported medias

1.8.4

• FAQ updated

1.8.3

• Fixed: Cache flushed after the migration
• Fixed: Compatibility issue with WordPress < 3.3

1.8.2

• New: Better compatibility for copying media: uses the WordPress HTTP API

1.8.1

• New: Better compatibility for copying media: uses the copy function if cURL is not loaded

1.8.0

• New: Compatibility with PHP 5.1 (thanks to dmikam)
• New: Compatibility with WordPress 3.0 (thanks to dmikam)
• New: Better compatibility for copying media (uses cURL) (thanks to dmikam)

1.7.1

• FAQ updated

1.7.0

• New: Compatibility with Joomla 2.5

1.6.3

• New hooks added
• Description updated

1.6.2

• FAQ updated

1.6.1

• Fixed: clean the cache after emptying the database
• Fixed: the categories slugs were not imported if they had no alias

1.6.0

• New: Compatibility with Joomla 1.6 and 1.7

1.5.0

• New: Can import posts as pages (thanks to LWille)
• Translation: German (thanks to LWille)

1.4.2

• Tested with WordPress 3.4

1.4.1

• Add “c” in the category slug to not be in conflict with the Joomla URLs
• FAQ and description updated

1.4.0

• New: Option to import meta keywords as tags

1.3.1

• New: Deactivate the cache during the migration for improving speed

1.3.0

• New: Modify posts internal links using WordPress permalinks setup
• Fixed: Exhausted memory issue

1.2.2

• Fixed: Don’t import HTML links as medias
• FAQ updated

1.2.1

• New: Get the post creation date when the publication date is empty
• Fixed: Accept categories with spaces in alias

1.2.0

• New: Import all media
• Fixed: Do not reimport already imported categories
• Fixed: Update categories cache
• Fixed: Issue with media containing spaces
• Fixed: Original images sizes are kept in post contents

1.1.1

• New: Manage sections and categories duplicates
• Fixed: Wrong categorization of posts

1.1.0

• Update the FAQ
• New: Can restart an import where it left after a crash (for big databases)
• New: Display the number of categories, posts and images already imported
• Fixed: Issue with categories with alias but no name
• Fixed: Now import only post categories, not all categories (ie modules categories, …)

1.0.2

• Fixed: The images with absolute links were not imported.
• New: Option to skip the images import
• New: Skip external images

1.0.1

• Fixed: The content was not imported in the post content for the posts without a “Read more” link.
• New: Option to choose to import the Joomla introtext in the excerpt or in the post content with a «Read more» tag.

1.0.0

• Initial version: Import Joomla 1.5 sections, categories, posts and images