SP Upgrade

Introduction

Migration & Conversion, Data Import & Export, Joomla Migration

Migrate your old Joomla! sites with the best, most popular, used on thousands of sites already, by thousands of satisfied users, component and keep your Google Rank safe.

SP Upgrade supports transferring between the various Joomla! versions as below:

1.5 -> 2.5
1.5 -> 3.x
1.5 -> 4.x
1.6 -> 2.5
1.6 -> 3.x
1.6 -> 4.x
1.7 -> 2.5
1.7 -> 3.x
1.7 -> 4.x
2.5 -> 3.x
2.5 -> 4.x
3.x -> 3.x
3.x -> 4.x
4.x -> 4.x

Joomla version 3.x and 4.x supported, refers to all releases of Joomla 3 and 4

The simple process

Install a new version of Joomla anywhere, (your live server, or a remote server, or even on your PC)
Install SP Upgrade,
Connect to the source database,
Click the transfer button,
Enjoy your new site.

Migrate everything with with no exceptions.

Core Data:
- Users
- Articles (along with their Sections and Categories)
- Contacts
- Web Links
- News Feeds
- Banners
- Menus ability to transfer all menu items, and not - only of the core components
- Modules ability to transfer all modules, and not only the core
- Tags
- All other extensions data!

Extensions:
- K2
- Kunena
- AcyMailing
- VirtueMart
- BreezingForms
- sh404sef
- JComments
- JEvents
- Community Builder
- ARTIO JoomSEF
- Phoca Download
- Phoca Gallery
- Phoca Guestbook
- Phoca Maps
- jNews

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An Excellent extension

rhymeroyal (9).
Posted on 20 June 2012

With several or one Domain to upgrade this component is a must

The component is Excellent

The layout is Excellent

The support is even more Excellent

Buy the SP upgrade start the migration to an easy site

Questions to the support are answered almost instantly

It does want it says on the tin

Excellent

Good bargain

Klaus Gebhardt (2).
Posted on 26 May 2012

I have several Domains to upgrade from 1.5 to 2.5 .

The first 4 migrations worked well with the recommende migrator, but the 5th was really a pain. I costs me over a month until I decided to buy SP upgrade.

With this, after an hour everything was finished. It seems, that the hoster of the 5th domain is very strict, which results in plenty of time-outs. But the great advantage of SP upgrade is, that after a time-out you just hit the "back"-button of your browser and start the migration again. SP remembers where it has been and continues.

One hint: When you have restarted after a timeout, there is usually a DUPLICATE KEY error. Write down these Ids. About 25% of these records are not properly transferred. In my case 4 defect records of 30,000. Really not a big deal.

Some questions to the support even on a saturday have been answered within an hour.

I wish I have bought it before the first migration. SP would have saved me plenty of time.

Thumbs up for this excellent extension.

Works like a dream

DJBenz (5).
Posted on 25 May 2012

I had previously tried a free extension to migrate my Joomla site from 1.5.26 to 2.5.4 and run into tons of problems - way more than any extension should give. I've never been a fan of paying for extensions for an open source system, but SPUpgrade is definitely worth the money. The first attempt didn't go perfectly, but fortunately I was working on a copy of my live site, so not a problem. After a quick response from SPUpgrade's support I tried a second time. It upgraded my site in a couple of minutes and was clean as a whistle. Everything in place as it should be and all working correctly.

Fantastic extension and well worth the price.

Migration Made Easy

James Borders (1).
Posted on 13 May 2012

This product makes migration from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 extremely easy. The support extended was outstanding. On a few occasions, I wanted to re-migrate just parts of my Joomla 1.5 installation and the support staff guided me through the steps that I needed to perform in order to accomplish them. This is an extemely Good product which I would recomend to anyone wishing to migrate from 1.5 to 2.5

Saves so much time when migrating!

Neil Robertson (47).
Posted on 13 May 2012

It's not hard to justify the small fee for this excellent extension as it saves so much time when migrating websites. I have used it on a few websites including one where I needed the userIDs to be consistent so that Kunena, JoomGallery and JEvents data was attributed to the correct user account on the new Joomla 2.5 website. It works the first time without any hassles. Thanks, I have quite a few more migrations to do and will be using SP Upgrade from now on!

Works as intended...

RebelSoldier (4).
Posted on 06 May 2012

... and does so in a pleasing way. I've searched for a possibility to migrate my Joomla 1.5 site to Joomla 2.5 without loosing the article-id's.

Nothing I tried so far was able to do that. SP Upgrade does this and so far without any problems.

In a matter of seconds, my articles, categories, etc. were online on Joomla 2.5 - with the same IDs and without any errors.

Thumbs-Up for this Extension! :)

An excellent component !

Vianney (5).
Posted on 04 May 2012

A component that every webmaster should have, we migrated over 200 customer sites without problems.

Great job!

The Best Migration Tool

Dax Edwards (1).
Posted on 04 May 2012

I have worked hard on upgrading from Joomla 1.0 tonight, but upgrading from 1.5 was quite a bit more challenging--mostly since jUpgrade was not working. I couldn't find any answers. Tried many solutions people said worked for them but after about 4 hours, I finally found SP Upgrade. Even with jUpgrade people were still claiming issues. SP Upgrade was so easy and did most of the work for me. I'm very thankful I found it. I had to pay about $35 dollars (vs. jUpgrade for free), but it was well worth it. Quick and easy. When I had a question for SP CYEND, they responded quickly and were very professional, helpful, and courteous. Thanks, SP CYEND, for doing such an excellent job! Couldn't have done it with out you. It truthfully made my day!

Stick with JUpgrade

Paul Masson (5).
Posted on 25 April 2012

Tried both JUpgrade and SPUpgrade on a large site from 1.5 to 2.5. SP was a waste of time and money.

On the positive side the purchase price allows a 'subscription' to other components that may have value.

Owner's reply: First time to have issue with large site. Component is able to migrate sites with 100k+ articles. If a timeout occur for any reason just rerun and process will continue from where it stopped. Contact with us and we can assist you.

Migration from joomla 1.5.26 to 2.5.4

Michael (1).
Posted on 23 April 2012

Paid for this component, and then had to confirm with support that it's ok to migrate from MySQL database (Joomla 1.5.26) to MySQLi database (Joomla 2.5.4), which it is (changed in 2.5.4 global configuration > server settings > database type > MySQLi).

Took minutes for the migration to happen!!!

Asked a few questions to make sure settings were correct, support answered within an hour or 2. Has saved me endless hours copying and pasting!!!

Had a few issues with menu items, artisteer templates and acymailing transfers, but managed it all eventually, since Joomla 2.5.4 needed configuring / tweaking.

Thanks for a great component and service guys.

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SP Upgrade

Version:: 5.3.1
Developer:: KAINOTOMO PH LTD
Last updated:: Jul 29 2025
1 week ago
Date added:: Nov 18 2014
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Paid download
Includes:: c
Compatibility:: J3 J4

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