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  12/01/11
  9:31pm
  Luis Abarca says:

  You can do that without plugins, just go to to Settings -> Permalink (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) in your site and change your permalinks structure to something like this:
  
  /%postname%.html
  
  Check this example:
  http://e-acapulco.com/eventos/abierto-de-gimnasia-en-acapulco.html
  
  is using this permalink structure
  /%category%/%postname%.html

  Previous versions of this answer: 12/01/11 at 9:31pm

  • 12/01/11 9:44pm
    
    Tyler M says:

    I understand that, but what happens to the new wordpress pages we create? Everything will have to be in that structure right? OR can we control permalinks on a case by case basis?
    
    Follow me?
    
    There are about 80 URL's on the HTML site and we plan to build about 100 MORE pages on the wordpress site. We only need the custom URL's for the 80 URL's and then anything after that can just be standard wordpress with /%postname% permalink structure.
    
    Is this possible?

  • 12/01/11 9:50pm
    
    Luis Abarca says:

    All the url have a similar URL: /location/page.html ??
    
    You can create a custom post type to do that and edit the rewrite rules.

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  12/01/11
  9:54pm
  stevenjgoldman says:

  I agree that /%category%/%postname%.html/ as a permalink adds .html but only to blog posts and not to pages. There is a free plugin available from wordpress (dot) org called .html on pages Direct Link
  
  Hope this helps..

  Previous versions of this answer: 12/01/11 at 9:54pm
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  12/02/11
  1:22am
  Julio Potier says:

  I agree too : /%category%/%postname%.html/ as a permalink adds .html but only to blog posts and not to pages !
  
  Also, i know you don't want to use 301 but sometimes this is a good solution waiting google refresh the new links.
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  12/02/11
  5:04am
  John Cotton says:

  Tyler
  
  I really think you should be using 301 redirects - Google isn't going to punish your SEO for that because that's what 301 redirects are for. It's almost certainly worse to have two pages with the same content (your new WordPress page and a view of that page via a rewrite)....
  
  However, if you are dead set to do this, then this is how to do it:
  
  
  1/ Add the following code to your header.php file, just before </head>:
  
  

  
  
  <?php if ( is_singular() ) { ?>
  
  <link rel="canonical" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" />
  
  <?php } ?>
  
  

  
  
  2/ Add the following code to your theme functions.php file
  
  

  
  
  	 function my_add_rewrite_rules( $rules )	{
  
  		  $newrules = array();
  
  
  
  		  $newrules['^my-old-url-1$'] = 'index.php?p=212';
  
  		  $newrules['^my-old-url-2$'] = 'index.php?p=315';
  
  		  $newrules['^my-old-url-3$'] = 'index.php?p=72';
  
  		  // etc for each of your 80 urls where p=id points to the page/post id of the replacement page
  
  
  
  		  return $newrules + $rules;
  
  	 }
  
  	 add_action('rewrite_rules_array', 'my_add_rewrite_rules');
  
  

  
  
  3/ Change your permalinks to whatever you want (/%category%/%postname% is good), but DON'T .html in there - it's extra bytes, unnecessary and doesn't add anything to your SEO. Save Permalinks (even if you don't change them).
  
  Step 1 is important for telling Google (and others) which url is the REAL url - it should stop it penalising you for duplicate content.
  
  Step 2 rewrites each of the urls (you've only got 80 and you only need to do it once). p=ID works regardless of how you set your permalinks and gives you the flexibility to change permalinks at a later point.
  
  Step 3 executes the code in step 2.
  
  JC

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