I am feeling extremely ignorant right now while trying to learn the new Joomla structure. I am extremely grateful for the Shape5 support.
I installed the Corpway siteshaper at
http://migration.clarioncounty.info and played around a bit. It seemed to fit my rather simplistic needs (all my sites are local and family history non-profit research/information).
Then I used the JUpgradePro component to migrate all the data from my old site (which was working fine, but my hosting company won't allow J1.x sites for security reason -- I get that...).
Interestingly, I figured out I had duplicated a category alias, because the upgrade component stalled. The component's debug option showed me the error.
After I did the migration, many of the site shaper features broke.
Is there something fundamental I missed about upgrading, that would be simple to fix at this point? Should I reinstall the Site Shaper and then only tick the buttons for migrating content from the existing site? That is, really, all I want to transfer over.
Worst case, I can create my categories and copy/paste 375 articles.
I know that, once I get the hang of this, I won't have to bother anyone with simple questions. After all, I've been using Joomla successfully since it was Mambo.
In the mean time, I appreciate your patience.