Switching over to wordpress

[mike_sif]

Hello fellow Mozers!

I've searched to see if I find an answer, cant seem to find it.

Is there a way to do a blanket 301 redirect?  I am moving a site that has all pages end with .html extension over to wordpress.

I was wondering if I could set up a rule that says redirect all pages with .html extension to a version of the page with no extension.  I will keep the same url with the exception of the .html extension.

http://www.website.com/page.html to http://www.website.com/page/
http://www.website.com/page-title.html to http://www.website.com/page-title/

Instead of doing a 301 redirect for about 250 pages, I was wondering if I can just do one rule that will handle all the redirects considering I am keeping the same page url without the .html extension.

Thanks

[danatanseo]

I thought I remembered a very similar question to this one that was posted recently so I did a little digging and found it.

See if this helps: https://moz.com/community/q/converting-to-wp-should-i-add-html-or-301

[TakeshiYoung]

Try putting the following lines to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [L,R=301]

[Francisco_Meza]

With 250 URL, you can do this manually in a couple hours. Use a free crawler and download to excel. From there, create the new URLs you want to 301 to and throw them into the .htaccess.

[evolvingSEO]

Mike

I think this is what you are looking for: https://moz.com/community/q/html-extension - also a recent question from the Q&A. I think Dana's link explains how to maintain the .html in WordPress and that debate was more about if 301's pass PR etc.

Whereas if you've decided you already want to redirect, that tells you how.