Recovering the domain pages, .HTML in the slug.

hideath said:

yes, that's doable and you can do that easily in wordpress for either a single page, all or just a few of them,
google will crawl a html version of the page no matter what the slug is,
or whenever you're hosting static pages or using any kind of back-end sofwares to deliver these pages

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SeoIsArt said:

Just tried to do that with redirection plugin (redirecting the old page with .html at the end if slug to a static wordpress page). Didn't work. It seems I need to change smth in htaccess file.

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danparks said:

Do you care if the html page uses your wordpress theme? If you don't, then just go ahead and create a .html file with the desired name. FTP the file to the root directory of your website.

If the original file had a pathname that includes a folder, then create those folders and put the html file in the folder and FTP the folder to your website's root.

For example, if the original site .html file was here:

examplewebsite.com/pets/how-to-train-your-dog.html

Then on your PC create an html file named how-to-train-your-dog.html, then place it in a folder named pets, then upload the pets folder to your root directory.

Again, the page won't have the look of your other pages (because they use your wordpress theme) - the look will be whatever you define in the .html file. But if you're doing this just to recreate a page to preserve backlinks, then you shouldn't care what the page looks like.

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Deleted member 752298 said:

Use this code snippet to remove the HTML extension:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

And it should be done.

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