existing .html not pointing to new wordpress pages

  • Resolved baydream

    (@baydream)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi All, I had originally created my website in rapidweaver, all the pages were aboutus.html and gallery.html etc

    However I have published my new wordpress pages, so they have the same hame, eg about us, gallery etc but if I click on a google link, eg https://www.mydomain.couk/aboutus.html, it does not take you to the right wordpress page.

    Can anyone help, as I do not want my hardwork with google wasted with my new wordpress site. thanks

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  • well, wordpress pages don’t end in .html, but your other pages do, so the links are different

    you can update your permalink structure to have .html at the end I guess

    Thread Starter baydream

    (@baydream)

    Having read endless webpages on the subject I have finally solved the issue.

    Unfortunetly you cannot change the permalinks to have .html at the end, all links seem to end in /page/

    However, by opening up the .htaccess file in my wordpress folder on my host, I was able to add in this piece of code

    RedirectPermanent /aboutus.html https://mywebsite.co.uk/aboutus/

    this then redirects all google links through to the relevant page. you can do this will all your links as well

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