Replace HTML Static Site with WordPress Blog Pages

  • navaho

    (@navaho)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    I currently have an offline business which has a static html site (really quite ugly) it has a PR of 3 (downgraded recently from a PR4!) and is 5 years old. It ranks quite well for it’s umbrella and longtails in Goog/Yah/MSN.

    As my business is growing I want to modernise the site and plan to use a high wordpress page based theme so that I can create more product pages etc. I am fine with the bloggy php stuff and create pages for fun but….

    In migrating from html to php how do I handle the backlinks that are currently incoming to my pages? I currently have pages titled, “Our Products”, “About Us”,”What We Do”,”Our Shops”,”index” which all receive inbound links some of which are .edu.

    If I rename the exisiting pages from http://www.ourproducts.html to http://www.ourproducts.php, will the links still remain or will they disconnect themselves? I understood that pages default as html and then look for .php, will this default path save me??

    Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated!

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  • Hiranthi

    (@illutic)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Well, your links won´t have the .php extension (unless you set that in the permalink setting in settings, and even then the .php will only be included in permalinks for posts and not pages).

    There is a redirection plugin (very good one too), which would help you with your PR ánd the incoming links (you can define where visitors would go).

    I’d also recommend reading the Docs.

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    If you don’t have too many pages, use a 301 redirect for them (Google it for instructions). Changing the extension (.html, .php) will break your links. I’d recommend making these pages in WordPress and then 301 redirecting the old URLs to the new WordPress ones.

    Thread Starter navaho

    (@navaho)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks guys, both replies are very helpful, I only have 5 pages to handle so the 301 redirect through cpanel would probably be the easier to use! Thanks again…

    reflexionstudios

    (@reflexionstudios)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Maybe you can re-create the contextual information in a new WP post/page, and then in your .htaccess file have some rules that automatically redirect all requests from /your_old_page.html to /your_new_permalink/.

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