K2 to Content Migration

K2 is a popular extension of Joomla. It always tops the list of most loved apps on versions J1.5, 2.5 and 3.

However, they still don't have a roadmap for Joomla 4 which is why you have to go back to Joomla Content, the default built-in extension on Joomla.

This tool makes it possible for you to migrate K2 articles to Joomla Content. Thereby, you can upgrade your website to Joomla 4.

Buy Now ( $19 ) Demo

* To move large number of articles (>7000) , please use Pro version:  Buy Now ( $25 )

It is designed for ease of use. Note because K2 is not available on Joomla 4, so you only use this tool for Joomla 3.

Imported data includes:

  • All K2 Articles + Intro Image
  • All K2 Categories
  • All K2 tags
  • All K2 Extra Fields
  • Attachments (Required plugin installation: File Attachments)

After installing this tool, go to Components > K2 to Content to get started.

K2 to Content UI

Here, the tool will tell you what it will do. Include the number of articles and the number of categories to be imported. Click the "Import Now" button to launch.

Wait for the tool to notify you that the import is finished.

K2 to Content UI

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    yaniv rozenman
    yaniv rozenman · 1 years ago
    Hi,
    I've just installed the component to migrate K2 to articles on a very large site, and I have some problems:

    I have 5000+ tags, and only 1400 were moved to Joomla tags.
    What is the best practice for migrating the K2 items and saving the same IDs that I was using in the K2 items and categories if I already have articles and categories with the same IDs? Do I need to delete them before and check the box to "use the same K2 ID"?
    The custom field type "select" doesn't seem to migrate correctly to Joomla fields. It adds the field but not with the correct type, and it fails to move the corresponding data to it.

    Please let me know if you have any suggestions or solutions to these issues.
    Thank you,
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    Chao Yu-Ming
    Chao Yu-Ming · 1 years ago
    Thank you for the extension. I'm able to convert a portion of my k2 items and categories.

    The log file shows a few messages like this:
    - Item: 台北凱撒大飯店 Caesar Park Hotel Taipei:Duplicate entry '1-1163-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: Mega 50餐飲及宴會．望月樓:Duplicate entry '1-1164-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: 湄公河南洋美食:Duplicate entry '1-1168-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: 鄉園本港海鮮餐廳:Duplicate entry '1-1169-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: Mega 50餐飲及宴會．望月樓:Duplicate entry '1-1172-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: 台北凱達大飯店 Caesar Metro Taipei:Duplicate entry '1-1173-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    - Item: Mega 50餐飲及宴會．望月樓:Duplicate entry '1-1176-53' for key 'uc_ItemnameTagid'

    What would you suggest me to do to get this duplicate entry issue fixed?

    Thank you.
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    Sean Kalinich
    Sean Kalinich · 1 years ago
    This is not importing all identified articles. It says 4175 identified, but only imports about 1290, then just gets stuck.
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      David
      David · 1 years ago
      @Sean Kalinich In some cases, the process is stopped due to the Timeout parameter set on the server.

      Could you send me your site access to my email? (contact@joomhelper.com). Please help me back up your website first.
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    Ivo
    Ivo · 1 years ago
    Hi David,

    The plugin works great, is there a way to hide the extra fields for soms categories?
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    Charles Brockman
    Charles Brockman · 1 years ago
    K2 to Content Migration Version 1.3.7, Joomla 3.10.12, PHP Version 8.1.27
    When run, after just a second or two *K2 to Content Migration* shows:
    It is estimated that **82** articles and **8** categories will be imported into Joomla Content.
    I set *Process K2 Intro Image* to *Both*
    Upon **Import Now**, I see: success: 25, failure: 0
    --- LOG FILE ---

    There is no further indications on the K2 to Content Migration Administration page even if I let it 'run' for 30 minutes.
    Number of K2 Items: 82, Number of K2 categories: 9
    Number of original articles: 15, Number of original categories: 1
    Number of articles after attempted migration: 65, Number of categories after attempted migration: 17
    I ran the extension twice. Apparently the converted articles and categories were duplicated. The log file only has this content: --- LOG FILE ---
    There was no success message or any indication that the process was finished. It dies silently. Can this extension be repaired?
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      Sean Kalinich
      Sean Kalinich · 1 years ago
      @David There should be a log file that is available to see what the error is.
      If there is a log file, where is its located?
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      David
      David · 1 years ago
      @Charles Brockman Could you send me your site access to my email contact@joomhelper.com ? When finished, it will have a notification.I think there was an error that stopped this migration process.
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    Ronald Wegert
    Ronald Wegert · 1 years ago
    in your new version u describe fixed tags issue. How can i migrated now a working j4 site this tags?
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    Boskizzi
    Boskizzi · 1 years ago
    Hi David, I have one doubt that concerns the urls of k2 articles. I do not use any third party components. Would they remain the same?
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      David
      David · 1 years ago
      @Boskizzi I'm not sure about this because it depends on the URL structure of each element. If the structure is the same, the link will be preserved.
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    Gerald Neale
    Gerald Neale · 1 years ago
    I currently have about 179 existing joomla articles, and some of the k2 items that will be migrated have the same ID.

    Based on that, what would you recommend for the "Keep k2 ID" option?
    Thanks!
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    Gerald Neale
    Gerald Neale · 1 years ago
    Hi David, Just downloaded and converted 3200 K2 items to articles. Looks like it worked perfectly. A couple of questions. I could not find these answers in searching past comments, so sorry if they are redundant:

    1. Since the articles now have the same "alias" as the K2 items did, and it seems to be calling up the article (correctly) when entering the SEF URL, what happens/ed to the K2 items' aliases? Is there going to be a conflict at some point?

    2. Although they are converted, for some reason the tags are not working properly (i.e. "clicking" the tag doesn't list the articles with that tag).
    Thank you. This was quick and painless.
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      Jerry Neale
      Jerry Neale · 1 years ago
      @David David,

      Converted the k2 items and categories perfectly. It's a great product and worked flawlessly, except for one thing:

      For some reason, it didn't convert the tags.

      I haven't made changes to any articles since converting/migrating, and I have a copy/staging site in which all the tags are available. It also looks like the content/article ID numbers line up.

      Question: Is it feasible/possible to "drop" the existing content tag table (contentitem_tag_map) and import the tag table from the copy/staging site? If so, are there other tables that should be included?

      Please advise.

      Thank you!
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      Gerald Neale
      Gerald Neale · 1 years ago
      @David It's seems to be working fine when entering the URL of the article into the browser. I know I need to tweak the menus and modules, etc. I guess I"m all set.

      As for the question about the "tags," I believe it's acting up because I had the joomla tags turned off while using K2. I'm sure correcting that will resolve it. If not, I'll reach out.

      Thanks for a great product! It worked very well. I appreciate it.
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      David
      David · 1 years ago
      @Gerald Neale Hi,
      1.The SEF URL will include the menu alias. So if you set Menu to content or k2, it will not conflict.
      2.I remember I fixed this. Could you send your site access to my email contact@joomhelper.com ?
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    Zellie
    Zellie · 2 years ago
    Hi there - I am trying this out, and most of my items are failing with the error message:

    Unknown column 'Array' in 'field list'

    How can I fix this please?
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      Zellie
      Zellie · 1 years ago
      @David To follow up: I have found two places where this extension is failing for me:

      (i) K2 extra field "link"
      This data is saved as an array, and I believe this is what is giving the error message "Unknown column 'Array' in 'field list'". None of the data in the "link" extra field is migrating for me.

      (ii) K2 tags that do not appear in items
      My site contains some terms in the K2 tags list that do not appear in any K2 items. As soon as the migration comes across one of these, it stumbles, and ceases importing tags.

      Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I am on a tight deadline needing to finish my migration this weekend. I sent you an email with my site details, but if you need any further information, please let me know.
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      Zellie
      Zellie · 1 years ago
      @David Thank you. I have just sent you an email.
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      David
      David · 2 years ago
      @Zellie Hi! Could you give me your site access for checking (send to email: contact@joomhelper.com)? Also, please help me backup your site first. I will check it soon.
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    Nicolino Cese
    Nicolino Cese · 2 years ago
    I recently purchased your "K2 to Content Migration" module. Unfortunately, all categories with an indication of the number of linked articles are transferred, but not the articles with the indication "404 Component not found". I'm a beginner, can you help me, thanks
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    Jordi badia
    Jordi badia · 2 years ago
    Hi, this component works fine while you are using j3, but after migration to j4 articles disapear. I can see them in DB but not in articles list. Only categories. Is it a bug?
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    Antonio
    Antonio · 2 years ago
    Hello
    I need to migrate a K2 site with these kinds of extra fields: Textarea, Drop-down selection, Text field, Date

    are all converted to Joomla custom fields with your plugin?
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    Ronald Wegert
    Ronald Wegert · 2 years ago
    After the migration, the images are not displayed in the Images tab of the article. This is necessary in order to use my own templates and design articles. The links would have to be inserted in the intro and full image of the article table. Can you help me with this?
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    Timothy Stephens
    Timothy Stephens · 2 years ago
    After installing the plugin, there is no "K2 to Content" available in the Components menu.
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    Mato
    Mato · 2 years ago
    Hi David, is there a way to also convert attachment files? I see there is a really simple and free plugin that creates a "file" custom field. Maybe it could be used during conversion, if it is installed beforehand: https://it-conserv.de/joomla/downloads/2-plugins/12-field-file.html
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      David
      David · 2 years ago
      @Mato Yes, you need to install both of these products. Then I'll make a few tweaks so they work together.
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      Mato
      Mato · 2 years ago
      @David Hi, this is great news! So what do you suggest the solution should be? Install both, then setup a special template in the migrator before migrating, so it would take the attachment into account? I would be pleased to buy both with a little bit of help doing so. I have almost 2000 articles to migrate, and half of them have an attachment... So I definitely will need an automated way to work this out.
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      David
      David · 2 years ago
      @Mato K2 Attachment is not a K2 custom field, so migrating it is not yet supported on K2 to Content Migrator.

      However, we do provide a file attachment solution for Joomla Content (see more https://joomhelper.com/file-attachments-for-joomla ). If you want to migrate k2 files to Joomla Content, you can use this plugin. Of course, I can help move it in case you need it.
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      Mato
      Mato · 2 years ago
      @Mato Sorry, this plugin is J4-only, so it is unusable is this case :/
      The overall idea is maybe OK, though : I guess a simple Joomla 3 "file field" plugin could be part of your software's package.
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    David
    David · 2 years ago
    Release K2 to Content Migration v1.3.1
    ^ Migrate K2 Category Image
    ^ Log file when importing
    # Fixed Duplicate asset table
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      Antonio
      Antonio · 2 years ago
      @David Hi David
      any chance to see the Simple Image Gallery tag added to the content? I was hoping not to have to do it manually.
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    Mario
    Mario · 2 years ago
    Unfortunately, main photo captions do not migrate. :-(
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    Phil Gailinas
    Phil Gailinas · 2 years ago
    Used your product and it converted over 20,000 K2 items into Joomla articles with images. Everything looks good except trying to display content takes a very long time (with multiple timeouts). Eventually, articles are displayed but it's really not workable. Is this an issue with the number of articles or possibly a database keying issue, sorting, whatever?

    I am working with a cloned version of my live site so I can send admin access credentials to you if you'd like.

    Thanks in advance!
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    Martin
    Martin · 2 years ago
    Hi.
    How look migrate images from k2?
    Migration is original images? or from /media/cachemedia/k2/items/cache/2a14beb1aee2d71c6fecb12f25c690f7_Generic.jpg

    How look migration if using K2 + Simple Image Gallery Pro ?

    Regards.
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      Antonio
      Antonio · 2 years ago
      @David There is no J!4 version of Simple Gallery Pro yet, only the free one and it works with the same tag (anyway you can change it as need), without the extra options of the pro version, but it works.
      It is necessary to change in SIG Pro setting the path to the correct galleries directory. The K2 plugin uploads them into media/k2/galleries, so you can move/clone the files into images/galleries or change the path.
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      David
      David · 2 years ago
      @Michael Adding this structure is not difficult, but you must make sure this plugin works with Joomla Content.
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      Michael
      Michael · 2 years ago
      @Martin This is realy a bummer, 95% of my articles have a gallery. This would mean converting them all by hand. Adding {gallery}K2 itemID{/gallery} to the end of the content could be a fix and easy to do.
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      Antonio
      Antonio · 2 years ago
      @David into {gallery}name-of-gallery{/gallery} tag, name-of-gallery is the k2 article ID.
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      Antonio
      Antonio · 2 years ago
      @David It would be very helpful if you added this possibility. Simple Image Gallery Pro is very often installed along with K2 because of the ease with which it allows you to insert a photo gallery into your content. In the end I think it is a matter of "transferring/copy" the {gallery}name-of-gallery{/gallery} tag into the article content.
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