What do you recomend to do, to export the information or to start like a new website?, if I export it, do I have to insert every item for sale one by one again?.

And If I have the same server, do I have to loose my domain and have my name after his name (like facebook does, facebook/something)?

Now I undestand better how to work with Joomla, but I have had a lot of clients saying that they can’t close the purchase process, always for different reason, my servers said that Joomla has having problems working with all systems, is that right?

I’m not familiar with all the

@scottmadden, thanks Scott I have Joomla 1.5, I will check it with your information.

@hildaalanisgonzalez Greetings Hilda – before going that far to switch from Joomla to WP or any CMS you will definetely want to make sure that WP you can setup the same technical environment on WP i.e. building a webshop.

The next thing is – if you have server problems or if you receive server errors with your Joomla site you will probably run into the exact same problems with WP. At least the three big CMS WP, Drupal and Joomla need an up-to-date php version on your server, all of them do not really like to sit on shared hosting servers etc. Are you running on your own server, do you house your servers, do you run within a hosting subscription? Those questions are important to be answered prior to switching.

And last but not least: If your clients have problems checking out on your shop site this can be a problem with some security extensions within Joomla blocking certain ports (but again, same thing true for WP or Drupal).

@ecumenix, thanks Thomas, It will help me to find the real problem. I have a hosting suscription, so I have to verify if the problem is just with me or with more clientes of them that are using something different than Joomla.

 @chrisloeser, if it’s going to make me belong on the ”cool kids” group, then, it will be a good reason to do it   !!

@amyhallbiz , thanks Amy, I’m still working on it, my Joomla is not working because doesn’t let my clients sign in, or register or finish the sale process. So the WordPress version is ready, it took everything from Joomla, but because I have more than 300 items and the import-export process didn’t take the information on every item to find the shipping cost, I’m doing it one by one. It takes a lot of time. If you think I’m not on the right way, please let me know.

I’m not familiar with all the technological part, I belong to the old Marketing Managment teams (I said old, because it has changed a lot in the last few years) and I love and enjoy to do what I’m doing.

I hope I can finish with it during this week!

@heathercompton, thank you Heather, yes, I already checked it, and it says: “VirtueMart, your last sesion is outdated, last is 2.0.2 and you are using 1.1.5.”

So, I will call tomorrow morning to ask for an update version  The 1.1.5 is since 2010 when I started with my website, WOW, it was never updated.

@hildaalanisgonzalez  Just a caution … calculating shipping is sometimes challenging. I don’t think it’s WordPress. I think it’s the shipping companies whose plugins don’t always bring up the correct shipping amounts.

@heathercompton I asked for a new version, but they didn’t do it, they prefere that I change everything to wordpress, so I’m still working on with the input of the items.

It’s hard for me to understand all this, it takes time, and when finaly I feel good with something, it’s time to change for the new options.

The Changes on technology are working faster than me

I would just like to say, it is a good move to go to wordpress.  Joomla is very bad.  Setup the new site in parallel if you can (i.e. in a subfolder) so you can test its working good before flicking the switch.

@hildaalanisgonzalez

There is an Under Construction plugin that will hide your new site until your ready to flip the switch you can find it here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/underconstruction/