By chris on Tuesday, 13 February 2018
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Hello - we were using older version of easyblog in Joomla 2.5, we have upgraded to Joomla 3 and am not sure how to migrate all of our blog posts. I tried doing this through PHPMyadmin, but it seems the table structure has changed for easyblog_post table.

Thank you for the help
Hi chris,

May I know what version is the older version of your EasyBlog? Also, are you migrating from a different domain or in the same site?

We do have documentations here on how to upgrade EasyBlog from a lower version.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2018 16:07
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Hello - I am migrating from a different domain. The old site is Joomla 2.5 and uses EasyBlog 3.8. The new site is Joomla 3 and uses EasyBlog 5.1. I am not sure how to copy the blog entries from the old site and import them into the new site since the database table structure is different for EasyBlog 3 and EasyBlog 5
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Monday, 19 February 2018 16:42
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Hi Chris,

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 old site to new site.

NOTE:*Backup your data first before perform migration
NOTE:*Migrate all the old site user to new site first using 3rd party extension (make sure all the user id is same as old site)


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.
7. Install the latest EasyBlog on your new site (when install EasyBlog it will undergo maintenance scripts to update table structure)

**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.
images/easyblog_tavatar/
images/easyblog_cavatar/
images/easyblog_avatar/
images/easyblog_shared/
images/easyblog_images/
images/easyblog_articles/
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Monday, 19 February 2018 17:07
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