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Brandon
@bmoore.me

A national news org came to me with a problem. Their site was on Joomla 1.0 — past end of life, never redesigned for mobile, slow, and fragile. And they published original journalism every day.

wearespeak.comMigrating a Legacy News Archive to Wordpress - Speak - Wordpress website design and development, management, troubleshooting, and migration servicesHow a multi-phase CMS migration preserved 15 years of online journalism, solved platform security issues, and delivered a faster, more modern publishing experience for a national news organization.…
Brandon
@bmoore.me

There is no direct migration path from Joomla 1.0 to WordPress. The content had to move through Joomla 1.5 first. Three platforms. Two migration phases. Nearly 7,000 articles and 8,000 media items dating back to 2004. Manual MySQL work. A third-party publishing plugin that stored content

wearespeak.comMigrating a Legacy News Archive to Wordpress - Speak - Wordpress website design and development, management, troubleshooting, and migration servicesHow a multi-phase CMS migration preserved 15 years of online journalism, solved platform security issues, and delivered a faster, more modern publishing experience for a national news organization.…
Brandon
@bmoore.me

differently than Joomla's native architecture. A full redirect plan to protect years of search equity. Content freezes at critical points so the editorial team could keep publishing throughout. Six months from planning to launch. The site went live in January 2019 and is still running today — now

wearespeak.comMigrating a Legacy News Archive to Wordpress - Speak - Wordpress website design and development, management, troubleshooting, and migration servicesHow a multi-phase CMS migration preserved 15 years of online journalism, solved platform security issues, and delivered a faster, more modern publishing experience for a national news organization.…

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Brandon
@bmoore.me

home to 10,500+ articles and 12,000+ media items. Full case study here - wearespeak.com/2026/04/09/m... #WordPress #CMS #WebMigration #ContentStrategy

wearespeak.comMigrating a Legacy News Archive to Wordpress - Speak - Wordpress website design and development, management, troubleshooting, and migration servicesHow a multi-phase CMS migration preserved 15 years of online journalism, solved platform security issues, and delivered a faster, more modern publishing experience for a national news organization.…