Automatically appending “.php” to the end of the permalinks…

  • Hello,

    I’ve tried following the instructions for “Having your posts end in .html” under the “Using Permalinks” documentation, but it’s not giving me the result that I need.

    Sure it works when I go to a page such as “https://www.site.com/page.php,” but it looks like it just redirects the page to “https://www.site.com/page,” which doesn’t work out for me.

    Is there any way that I can hack it so it REALLY emulates a .php extension, instead of it just redirecting?

    The reason I need this is because I’m converting a site with a good page rank over to WordPress, and I want to confuse the search engines as little as possible.

    Thank you!

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  • As far as I know it works only for posts, not for Pages.

    Thread Starter energyco

    (@energyco)

    I know that I can modify the .htaccess file to make up rules to automatically append the .php, but there is one big problem with that, and that’s that I would have to use static or at least staticish links in my WordPress installation, instead of sweet php link codes like get_permalink(26);. And there’s a WHOLE lot of them I’d have to change. ??

    I have no problem writing up a long .htaccess file to get the links to do what I want, but is there anyone that knows how I can edit the “get_permalink” function to get the correct link (ie https://www.site.com/page.php instead of https://www.site.com/?page_id=10 or https://www.site.com/parent/page/)?

    The code doesn’t have to be pretty, I just can’t think of any way to get it to do what I want.

    Any help is super appreciated!

    Hello, I’m looking for this solution as well. Any luck in finding a working solution for this yet?

    Thanks

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Search Engines don’t care about the extensions. Really. Having one extension or another will not change your pagerank one bit.

    just make sure you have 301 redirects in your .htaccess from the /oldpage.php to /newpage

    That will ensure that your PR follows to the new pages.

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