Why Switch from b2evolution to Wordpress?
WordPress and b2evolution take their respectful places among the most popular and “loved” blogging softwares available on the Web. Despite the fact that both of the platforms are free and open source - they do have significant differences in many aspects. Currently WordPress enjoys the fame being the most popular blogging tool, serving over 60 million websites all over the world, including personal blogs, forums, corporate websites, portals, and what not. Alternatively, b2evolution also includes all the features of traditional blog tools, but is known mostly for its the multi-lingual, multi-user and multi-blog features. In terms of ease-of-use - WordPress certainly takes the cake, being famous for its simplicity and efficiency at the same time. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface makes it the tool №1 for newbies and non-techie persons.
By contrast, b2evolution is a little bit more complicated requiring some programming background to master it and some time to get comfortable with how it works. Its admin interface basically has no context-sensitive help and is fairly incomprehensive that makes it be more preferable for developers. A huge library of different themes and plugins allows WordPress users to add any additional functionality they lack and to refresh the visual look of the website as often as needed. What it more, the platform’s community is a pretty welcoming place to go in case you got stuck. By contrast, b2evolution support team is relatively limited in terms of extensions availability. There are only about 100 skins and less than 200 plugins at b2evolution.net. The installing process of these themes and plugins is quite simple, but some extensions require further configuration. In case you have little experience with coding, you will not be able to do much customization work.
Conclusion: WordPress Recommended
No matter for newbies or webmasters, WordPress is certainly the platform of choice. This rich in features platform with a wide range themes and plugins makes it possible not only to set up and run blogs, but also enterprise websites, eCommerce and what not.
Once you’ve made the right choice migrate from b2evolution to WordPress - a number of points should be considered about the content. It would be a great mistake to leave the content behind and to rebuild your website from the scratch. If you want to avoid hours of copy/pasting the content and are not eager to spend a fortune on experienced programmer - CMS2CMS automated migration service will save you from all the migration hassles and risks of data losses. There is no need in special knowledge and experience. All you need is to follow the next instructions one-by-one:
Create your account. Visit www.cms2cms.com and register your CMS2CMS account there. It can also be done via Facebook or Google.
Set up your Source and Target sites. Select your existing and new CMS types. Type in the URL addresses of your b2evolution and WordPress websites.
Connect your sites by means of Connection Bridge file, that you should have previously downloaded and saved as zip to your PC. After that extract “cms2cms” folder from the zip and connect to your b2evolution website via FTP. Do the same with your WordPress website. When finished, go back to migration wizard and click “Verify connections to your Sites”.
Select migration preferences by activating the following migration options: migrate media, make URLs SEO friendly, clear Target website data, get design suggestion.
Start Demo Migration which is completely free to see how the CMS2CMS service works.
Start Full Migration. After that click, your b2evolution website content will be converted to WordPress.
In some minutes, after the migration will be completed - you’ll have a working WordPress website ready to be used. Test your new website in different browsers in order to see that everything is working correctly. Now you can enjoy your new website and make use of all possibilities that WordPress provides.