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How to save URL structure after moving from Joomla to Wordpress

After moving your Joomla site to Wordpress platform, you need to edit your posts making them pretty, adding SEO meta tags, aligning pictures etc.
But the biggest concern is your URL structure. Search engines, including Google, do remember your old URLs, have them cached and hardly will index the same content under different URLs or give them significantly less value compared to the original URLs.
Let’s say you had on Joomla www.site.com/content/view/23/45
after moving to Wordpress you have something like www.site.com/contentview2345.
That’s the BIG issue
The solution might be as following:

1. Create HTML site-map of your desired (old Joomla) URLs, put it into footer of WP. Here is a useful plugin for generating HTML sitemaps in Wordpress.
2. Create XML sitemap with old Joomla URLs, here is useful plugin, and submit it via Google Webmaster.
3. Finally do the main thing: download and install Redirection plugin. Then manually, yes manually (are you scared of this word?:) make 301 permanent redirect of each WP URL to the desired (your old Joomla) URL.

Hope it helps.




How to solve problem with displaying Cyrillic characters in WordPress

Well, looks like topic is all researched through and through and closed forever. But, surprisingly, NO:)
The easiest way is to install WP in your language is:
just go to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language, download the package, install it manually (having created database and user in phpMyAdmin before) and have fun.

If you have automatic installation in your language inside your hosting CPanel – then it’s just a matter of few clicks.

But what to do if you have your installation in default English, tons of posts, pictures and medias and just too lazy (as I am) to make backups, uninstalling and installing WP again? And that’s all only for sake of Cyrillic characters displaying as endless ???????????????????????????

To solve problem with Cyrillic characters in WP:
1. Go again to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
What you need is two files in your language with extensions .mo and .po. Actually you may download the full installation package of WP in you language and extract /language folder from /wp-content and then upload the whole folder to your existing installation.
2. Let’s assume you just have got two files let’s say in Ukrainian uk.mo and uk.po
Using FTP client go to your WP installation and enter /wp-content or /wp-includes.
Then create folder /languages
Upload both files into that folder.
3. Download wp-config to your harddrive and open it with Notepad or any other simple text editor (no MS Word allowed).
Find:
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf-8′);
change to:

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘windows-1251′);

4. Upload wp-config back rewriting previous version.
5. That should solve the problem.