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supportI am new to WordPress (I don’t even have a site yet). I plan to transfer an existing static site to WordPress. Your plugin seems to provide a solution for preserving my URL structure from old to new site. My question is, how does this plugin work? Or more to my concern, is a 301 redirect involved? When http://www.example.com/home.htm is requested by a browser, does this plugin make a change in the .htaccess file where a 301 redirect is performed or are the changes internal to WordPress and WordPress actually recognizes the page home.htm as existing? Thanks. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-page-extension/
I installed this plugin, activated it and created a sample page. It worked as advertised. I then looked in the .htaccess files of the website. (in both the root and wp subdirectory) I saw no mention of any 301 redirects in either. For adding an extension to a Page, some people in the WordPress forms suggested a solution where a line in your .htaccess file (using wildcard notation) could be created to generically do a 301 for all pages. But since 301’s leak at least a little bit of link juice, this plugin seems the better solution. I’m new at this, so if someone has a different opinion I would like to hear it.
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I installed this plugin, activated it and created a sample page. It worked as advertised. I then looked in the .htaccess files of the website. (in both the root and wp subdirectory) I saw no mention of any 301 redirects in either. For adding an extension to a Page, some people in the WordPress forms suggested a solution where a line in your .htaccess file (using wildcard notation) could be created to generically do a 301 for all pages. But since 301’s leak at least a little bit of link juice, this plugin seems the better solution. I’m new at this, so if someone has a different opinion I would like to hear it.
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