How to include ".php" after post name in wordpress

I'm rebuilding a site for somebody and the site was built in PHP so all the URL's have ".PHP" at the end
example: mysite.com/postname.php

I'm rebuilding the site with wordpress and have entered the--> /%postname% in the permalinks area.
So How can I get the URL it creates for the page to have the .php at the end?

Thanks in advance.

 

Just put the .php after the last %

/%postname%.php

 

I tried that and it didnt work. I think the .htaccess is changing the url structure.

 

Might want to try clearing your browser cache and try again. Theoretically that should work.

 

tried that too. didn't work. I even downloaded a new browser (Safari) to try it.

 

It is kind of weird, but I think if you accessed those pages from a different ISP they may appear correctly. Not really positive about that.

I had this problem when adding some rewrite rules to a project, and had a heck of time getting the rules to stick.

Eventually, I added this code to the beginning of my functions.php to force WP to reload the rules:

add_filter('init','flushRules');

// Remember to flush_rules() when adding rules
function flushRules(){
	global $wp_rewrite;
   	$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}

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This is something you do not want to leave in the file. Take it out after the rules take hold. As I said, it seemed to work from the machine I was working on & the production copy (after pushing to the server) never had a problem.

 

ya, that didn't work either. This is weird. Could it be in the .htaccess?

 

Is the problem that you are trying to build on top of an existing site?
A 'real' file in a url (whether xxx.html or yyy.php) will always be shown in preference to one you try to create dynamically.
If so you first need to delete or rename the oringinal .php files

 

I don't think that is the case here. If there were an existing page, it would have shown up in the browser (one would think) with the .php extension.

 

Short answer, no. But just in case, can you post that file here?

And, getting back to what seafrontsteve mentioned ... is this site built on top of an existing site? Want to rule out any interference problems. N'est pas?

 

If I go to the url with the .php at the end it redirects to the url with out it.
I'm thinking it might be the .htaccess but I dont know too much about it.

 

Here is the .htaccess file

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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Did WordPress generate that? And I take it you still have permalinks set to include the .php extension?

 

yes, that was the stock WP one. and yes I still have it set to /%postname%.php

 

word press plugin for ur requirement

 

Do not use that link!!!! They take plugins from WordPress, add a file to them, and redistribute as their own. Beware, they are often not up to date versions either.

You can check out the Dot html,php,xml etc pages plugin at WordPress.

 

Interesting that a whois search on www.wordpress-plugin.org shows the domain registrant lives in Turkey.
Guess that may be why Wordpress haven't gone after them yet for infringing their trademark?
I checked a couple of years ago and they are happy for you to use wp... but not 'wordpress' in a domain name
This site definitely devalues their trade name

 

Out of interest try make the extension .html and see if that works

 

Thanks dodger, that plugin worked.

 

Kewl dude! If I have the time, will take a look at the code and see if what made the whole thing tick. Maybe can get around not having to use the plugin, if possible.