In 2000, the CMS system Mambo began development. Five years later, the CMS system was renamed Joomla version 1.0. At the beginning of 2008, Joomla 1.5 was released. From the start, the CMS system did not meet user requirements in terms of articles and categories, leading many developers to install the K2 component into Joomla. In Joomla 1.5, the K2 component was an excellent tool for enhancing articles and categories beyond what the basic version of Joomla offered. The K2 component continues to develop to this day. With the advent of Joomla 2.5 at the beginning of 2012, the need for the K2 component diminished, as Joomla articles now matched the quality of the K2 component. A common reason users want to remove the K2 component from their system is the incompatibility between K2 and other components, modules, and plugins.
So, how do you transfer articles from the K2 component to Joomla core articles?
Users might think that the K2 component would allow conversion back to Joomla. However, this is not the case. Despite online claims that exporting from K2 is impossible, there are ways to do it:
- Manually move articles from K2 to Joomla articles.
- Use the paid CMS2CMS service.
- Export articles directly from the database. This method is free but will require you to reset all menus in Joomla.
Converting Articles via PhpMyAdmin Query:
insert into jos_content (title, alias, introtext, `fulltext`, state, sectionid, catid, created_by, metakey, metadesc, ordering)
select title, alias, introtext, `fulltext`, published, '2', catid, '69', metakey, metadesc, ordering from jos_k2_items
*Note: jos is the prefix of your database.