Link WordPress website with Joomla website

  • stephen_strydom

    (@stephen_strydom)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I have a client who has a very old & complicated Joomla website. There are numerous products on his website. Each product has a specific enquiry form that (according to him) links that product enquiry to the specific product in his databases.
    Problem is the website is totally mobile unfriendly and he is losing a lot of business due to this from the adwords campaigns we are running.
    He will not have his website converted to wordpress (says it has cost him thousands over the years to build his site and databases)
    He now wants me to build him a separate wordpress website just for mobile campaigns and basically wants me to duplicate all the products & enquiry forms from the joomla site on this wordpress site. Alternatively, he wants the wordpress site to link directly to his Joomla websites databses. I hope this makes sense?
    Is such a thing even possible and if so, how would one go about this?

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  • kjodle

    (@kjodle)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Why not just use a mobile-friendly Joomla template?

    Thread Starter stephen_strydom

    (@stephen_strydom)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @kjodle

    Thanks for your message.

    The existing website cannot be altered or upgraded in any way. I have to build a completely separate mobile site – The issue is simply if and how I can somehow link/send (or integate) the product enquiry forms on the main website with the mobile site.

    Regards,
    Stephen

    Jason King

    (@jasoncharlesstuartking)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Once people have invested a lot of time and money into something they will often stick with it far longer than is sensible, and tend to get entrenched and defensive if given good reasons to change.

    If the existing site cannot be altered in any way, that restricts your options.

    You could import the data from Joomla to WordPress. But if the data changes in Joomla, data in WordPress won’t be updated. That would be ok if you were moving from J to WP but not if both need to be retained.

    You could pull in data from RSS feeds, assuming that Joomla produces them.

    I think you can even get the data directly from the Joomla database, see https://www.fyianlai.com/2012/02/wordpress-boilerplate-custom-database/ – but never tried it so not sure how relevant that is.

    Thread Starter stephen_strydom

    (@stephen_strydom)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Jason,

    Thanks for the feedback & info. Honestly, this seems to be well above my level of expertise. Can you perhaps recommend someone who I could speak to about implementing something like this?

    Regards,
    Stephen Strydom

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