OK so here is the dilemma. I am moving my site to wordpress but I have a problem. One of my pages which has a particularly high search ranking has a .php extension at the end of it. So the page is like http://www.test.com/name.php. what I want to do is not have to use a 301 permanent redirect but instead have that very same URL in my new wordpress blog (so i don't have to use a redirect and lose PR juice). I know I can name a post address whatever I want, in so far as I don't add an extension. So I can do http://www.test.com/name but I cannot add the php extension! When I try to edit the URL in the post editor, it automaticall turns '.php' into '-php' as you know, to comply with url standards. Is there anyway I can have the EXACT same url by adding a .php at the end of the particular blog post I want so that it matches what the original page was? Thanks ahead ...
If you want to add a .php extension then you will need to add it to all post urls and you can do so by changing peralinks to remove the / at the end and adding .php instead But that would be a sitewide change and not only for that specific url but for all urls in your website. I have a lot of sites with .html extension with that trick and am quite sure .php will also work.
Do you have the php page? Try uploading it by FTP and just create a link to it. It works with HTML pages. Don't do through Wordpress. yourdomain.com/page.php You can also create it in notepad and save it as a php file if you don't have it.
Yeah, the thing is that I wanted to create unity with my site design and have it look like an actual blog post.