Connector · Joomla
Rebuild your Joomla website — one connector for 3, 4 and 5.
Most Joomla sites still run version 3, long past its end of life. ReWynder ships one package that installs on Joomla 3 as well as Joomla 4 and 5, copies your content and files in chunks, and uninstalls itself. An Akeeba backup upload and a crawl stand behind it.
- Install the ReWynder Connector
One package that installs on Joomla 3 as well as Joomla 4 and 5. It copies your content tables and site files in chunks, then uninstalls itself.
- Upload an Akeeba backup
A .jpa archive from Akeeba Backup, or a zip with your SQL dump and files.
- Read the public site
A real browser renders every page — sitemap first, then every link — and captures text, structure, images, computed styles and screenshots. Always available, always last.
What the connector copies
- Articles, categories, menus and menu types
- Custom fields and their values
- Images, media, templates, components, modules, plugins and language files
- A small file of non-secret settings: version, site name, language
On the platform side only the content tables are read — articles, categories, menus, fields. Extensions, users and sessions in the dump are ignored a second time, whatever the source sent.
What it leaves alone
- configuration.php — never walked
- Users, user groups, keys, notes and messages — left out by default
- Sessions, caches, tmp and log directories
- Anything inbound: the connector only talks out, to ReWynder
Installation: System → Install → Extensions → Upload Package File, then Components → ReWynder Connector → Start capture. Progress shows in your ReWynder project; the component removes itself when the copy is acknowledged.
Akeeba backup instead
Prefer not to install anything? Run Akeeba Backup, download the .jpa archive and upload it — up to 20 GB, resumable. ReWynder reads the open JPA format and the SQL dump inside it directly.
Articles become collections
Categories with many articles are recognised as collections and carried into the new site’s own CMS. Menus, with their nesting, become the navigation. Old URLs redirect.
Data handling
The capture lives in a dedicated encrypted bucket with a hard 7-day delete rule; the one-time token is stored hashed and dies with the manifest. A data-processing agreement is shown before any database is copied.
ReWynder Connector for Joomla is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Source Matters, Inc. Joomla is a trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.
Read more at the source
What the connector relies on, as Joomla and Akeeba document it.
- Akeeba Backup The backup whose .jpa archive ReWynder accepts as the fallback.
- Joomla documentation Articles, categories, menus, media and extensions, as Joomla defines them.
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