By Di White on Tuesday, 24 June 2014
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Hi there,
We are currently updating and rebuilding our website from a Joomla 2.5 site to a Joomla 3.2 site, but I have a few blogs on the old site that have quite good hits etc. and I was wondering if it's possible to move those blog posts over to the new site and still keep the comments and hit rates of those posts?
Your advice would be greatly appreciated, and if it is a possibility, could you please tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Dianne
Hello There,

Ideally, it's best that you create an export dump through phpmyadmin and export the tables over. Here's the general guideline that you could use and it is also what we used previously when we migrated from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.x.

*Backup your data first before perform migration

1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. Make a sql dump for all the tables that has the prefix of #__easyblog_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses the same prefix , then you can skip this part. However, if you are using a different database prefix, you'll need to edit the .sql file that you've just downloaded, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.
5. Open your PHPMyAdmin and this time, open up your new site's database.
6. You should see an import link at the top. Click on that, and click on browse. Select the .sql file and click the run import button.
Note : 7. Install the latest EasyBlog on your new site Joomla 3.3

**migrate additional - if your blog post have including the image file, you have to do this step as well.
That was to copy over the image and media files associated with EasyBlog (e.g. the "/images/easyblog_avatar", "/images/easyblog_images", "/images/easyblog_shared", and the "/media/com_easyblog" folders and all of their contents).

Regards
Kheng Wei
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:03
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Hi Kheng,
thank you so very much for your very detailed and informative answer.
I'll do it tomorrow and see how I go, will let you know if I come across any problems...
Thanks again and have a lovely evening
Regards,
Di
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:09
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Hello Diana,

Do update us on the migration status.

Regards
Kheng Wei
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:14
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