All you need to know about Joomla 1.5

After all the prior articles you may be thinking that “Do I still need to know more about Joomla? Well the answer is YES! I have a lot more to tell you about it. Firstly I had written an article earlier telling steps on how to upgrade to Joomla 1.5. Here I will add a little more to it and give you the conditions to upgrade to Joomla 1.5 as well. I didn’t mention them in my older article because I was not sure about it. I did an extensive research and now can state the following with immense surety.

Upgrading to Joomla 1.5 will be an easy job for you only if your website has content only from Joomla extension manager, banners and links etc. Make sure there are no third party components installed as they would all mess up during the upgrade. You can always install them later after you have tested your website.

Another factor to keep in mind is that the template you use must be designed to support both Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla1.5. You will have to devote in a few days in order to migrate to Joomla 1.5 properly. Don’t expect to get done perfectly within a few hours.

Also make sure that there is no custom SMF enabled on your website when you plan to upgrade. This may cause hurdles in proper up gradation of you website.

It is very common for Joomla websites to have at least any one of the above mentioned problems. You thus have to first remove the problem and then only try upgrading or else you couldn’t even imagine what you would be heading for. Joomla 1.5 is undoubtedly very user friendly and very powerful to use, but if mis managed or not handled properly you may end up with a sever migraine.

In order to migrate properly from Joomla 1.0 versions to Joomla 1.5 you may have to start from scratch. There are two popular and tested ways to do so. One is the semi automatic version and the other is the manual version of upgrading. I will discuss both the methods in detail in my coming articles. Don’t forget to keep a look out for my next article which is definitely bound to solve your upgrading problem forever and I will also giving out a few facts about Joomla 1.5. Good Bye for now! Keep doing Joomla!