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Question about changing HTML site to Wordpress...

by JustaWizard
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Hi Warriors!

Sooooo... if I take an existing website created in HTML with page URL's like mysite.com/page1.htm, and turn the site into a Wordpress site, the URL will be something like mysite.com/page1.php, correct?--so how do I get my Wordpress site pages URL's to be mysite.com/page1.htm instead??

THANKS!

David
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonvthomas
    you cant make the link look like this: mysite.com/page1.htm
    unless you load it as a seperate html page.
    I suggest you create a wordpress site and then take that static pages content and create a wordpress page or post and it will generate its own url based on the page name.
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    • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
      Originally Posted by jasonvthomas View Post

      you cant make the link look like this: mysite.com/page1.htm
      unless you load it as a seperate html page.
      I suggest you create a wordpress site and then take that static pages content and create a wordpress page or post and it will generate its own url based on the page name.
      Thanks Jason - the problem with that is the fact that I've got pages ranking and indexed as the URL's exist today so I'll lose that ranking even if I get them indexed quickly, isn't that true?
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  • Profile picture of the author Leanne King
    Hi David,

    First check all your links that are indexed using seo quake or similar and make a note of the links.

    Then you can change your permalink structure in wp to post name.html in the permalinks. If you want to use pages you will need to install a plugin to add the html extension IntroSites Blog Archive .html Wordpress permalink on PAGES plugin

    Or you could use a redirection plugin to redirect the indexed urls. There are several but this one has a lot of purposes Redirection - Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe

    Finally, make sure that you know your site name. For example, if your old site was http://www.myoldsite.com make sure in wp that you set it up to include the "www" rather than just http://myoldsite.com. You can do this manually from your wp dashboard or you can just use the enforce preference plugin WordPress › Enforce www. Preference WordPress Plugins

    All the best
    Leanne
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    • Profile picture of the author Stefan Vee
      Step 1
      Go to your wordpress dashboard
      Click on Settings
      Click on Permalinks
      Select Custom Structure , enter
      Code:
      /%postname%.html
      Save Changes <--

      Step 2
      Just like Leanne told you, download and install the ".html Wordpress permalink on Pages" plugin


      Step 3
      Go to pages
      click on "Add New"
      Write the page and publish it

      Step 4
      Edit the page slug according to your static site. In WP 2.7 the page slug box will appear just below your title. If you can't see that box, click on screen options in the upper right corner.
      (Note: editing the page slug is only possible after you published the page - if someone knows a workaround, I appreciate the share)
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      • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
        Originally Posted by Stefan Vee View Post

        Step 1
        Go to your wordpress dashboard
        Click on Settings
        Click on Permalinks
        Select Custom Structure , enter
        Code:
        /%postname%.html
        Save Changes <--

        Step 2
        Just like Leanne told you, download and install the ".html Wordpress permalink on Pages" plugin


        Step 3
        Go to pages
        click on "Add New"
        Write the page and publish it

        Step 4
        Edit the page slug according to your static site. In WP 2.7 the page slug box will appear just below your title. If you can't see that box, click on screen options in the upper right corner.
        (Note: editing the page slug is only possible after you published the page - if someone knows a workaround, I appreciate the share)
        Hi Stefan, that's a slick little trick, and it looks like an easy/quick solution... I'll try it, thanks!
        David
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        • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
          Here's something weird, maybe you can explain... I made a post, and in the permalink I typed the name of the post and .htm and posted - the weird part is that the permalink took out the . and posted it as (I'll call it "testpost") testposthtm but if I type www.website.com/testpost.htm, it still shows up...

          Anyone done this??
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Vee
    Have you tried posting without adding .htm
    .htm is added automatically when you set up your permalinks the way I described
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    • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
      Originally Posted by Stefan Vee View Post

      Have you tried posting without adding .htm
      .htm is added automatically when you set up your permalinks the way I described
      Hi Stefan! Actually, I hadn't tried that YET because the HTML site I recreated with Wordpress I had to move over to Bluehost from a hosting service not supporting PHP so I haven't been able to try that trick yet;

      But - I do have a site that IS on Bluehost that I'm planning to change from HTML site to a wordpress site, and I'm DEFINITELY going to use that trick then!

      THANKS!
      David
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Reed
    Leanne is right, you have all the control you need by setting your custom permalink structure.

    Eric
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