Redirect index.php to index.html

[stampede]

Howdy,
I am building a new genesis wordpress site from an existing php site, not migrating or merging the site or code, just building what someone has in an old php site who wants the upgrade to be a wordpress framework.
I will be keeping the same naming page conventions in the new site as was for the old with the exception of the extensions.
My question is;
Will some kind of permanent redirects from .php to .html take care of a long history of unbroken seo links for the site or is there an dimension of what I'm doing that I am not addressing?
My searches don't return the specifics I'm looking for, I may just not know all the questions that I need to be asking.
Thank you to anyone who may be able to point me in the right direction.

https://hatchetresort.com/index.php

[mickmel]

Not sure what you mean by "from .php to .html". I would assume you'll take pages like "grill.php" and have them simply be "/grill/".

If so, the Redirection plugin can help quite a bit with that.

Example. This page:

http://www.cardlog.com/our_company/history.htm

Now redirects to this page:

http://www.cardlog.com/about-cardinal/history/

via that plugin. Works well, and preserves most of your link/seo equity.

[Brad Dalton]

Try this https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Rewrite

---

Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[stampede]

Guess I just noticed the .php at the end of every page address and wanted to understand or convey that they would not be .php but you are correct Mickmel, they will just end in /
I'll snag the plugin and then try to understand "Class Reference/WP Rewrite" that Braddalton suggested to make sure I'm not missing something.
Thank you both for your help.

[Brad Dalton]

You can rewrite the URL's anyway you like in .htaccess using rewrite rules.

The plugin is very convenient however each Edit Post screen already includes a built in redirect option and the redirection plugin is on the WPEngine banned list for inefficiency so .htaccess is your best bet in my opinion.

---

Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Author]

Posts