I have a good number of my clients running Joomla on their web sites, many of them large organization web sites with hundreds of articles and some of the most data-intensive extensions. I had been following the development progress of Joomla 1.5 for several months after its release, at which point I was still chained to the 1.0.x series for most existing sites because compatible extensions hadn’t been released. Now that most of the extensions that matter are at the very least compatible in legacy mode, I’ve been slowly working over the summer to get my clients migrated from the 1.0.x series to 1.5. It’s not the easiest process, in fact I think it’s the most complicated, rage-inducing software upgrade I’ve ever had to deal with… However it has gotten easier as I’ve encountered some common issues that can be (sometimes easily) avoided. (more…)
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