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#  If you have to upgrade Joomla, Don't Panick, stay calm!...then freak out!

    Details    Written by: [Gary Barclay](https://www.joomlalondon.co.uk/organisers/gary-barclay)   Category: [News](https://www.joomlalondon.co.uk/jugl-joomla-news)    Published: 22 May 2013    Last Updated: 30 July 2026  I recently migrated a clients site from Joomla1.5 to Joomla2.5 and would like to share with you some of the issues I ran into. Essentially the migration was a success but only after a lot of extra work trying to recover from poor decisions along the way.

As far as I know there are 4 ways you could migrate your site:

1. Manually table by table using the process detailed here: link to [joomla migrate](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_1.5_to_3.x_Step_by_Step_Migration "Joomla Migrate")
2. Using the new [JUpgrade Pro](https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/jupgradepro/ "JUpgrade Pro") Restful methodology (Sounds great)
3. Using the older Jupgrade free utility (doesn't sound too bad)
4. [SP Migrate](https://www.kainotomo.com/store/sp-upgrade "SP Migrate") (Another Commercial App)

During my migration, I used 2 and 3 and a bit of 1.

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