I’d try puting a backslash before the dot (\.html). Sometimes this works in .htaccess. Just a guess, but you can try 🙂
You don’t need to escape (add a backslash before) the dot. The problem, I suspect, is that the items that aren’t being updated are pages, not posts. Page permalinks behave slightly differently and I suspect you’ll need a custom plugin to add .html to the end of a page.
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Yes – I’ve just realised that the posts have .html added to them, but pages don’t.
Can we re-open this discussion? vickyh came to the conclusion that using the custom URL structure “/%category%/%postname%.html” applies to Posts, but not Pages.
So my question is this: how do I get my Pages to end in .html? Help! Thanks!
You don’t. That’s how WP works. Sorry.
That’s too bad that there’s no flexibility for this. Thanks for the very quick response, moshu. Much appreciated!
Edit the Pages in question. Change their slugs to have the .html in them.
Hi Otto42. I tried that. When you attempt to add .html to the slug, WordPress automatically removes the period. So the slug then reads “pagenamehtml” instead of “pagename.html”. I’ve tried to escape the period with a backslash (pagename\.html) to no avail. Same result. I’ve even tried a double dot (pagename..html) also to no avail. Same result. Always just comes back as “pagenamehtml”. But thank you for the suggestion.
