If those links are hard coded in your posts, you may need to update them in your database.
I would do a search and replace of the links in the wp_post.
Lorelle wrote a good post about this here – http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/12/01/search-and-replace-in-wordpress-mysql-database/
One more thing @imikedesigns, I’m not sure that the .html extension works on pages.
You might need a plugin like this one – http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/html-on-pages/
But it’s very old. I would reconsider adding the .html personally.
I’m not sure there’s any benefit.
Thanks for the reply. But I can’t think of a way to search and replace them because they are all different links. It would bascially be a manual update of 1200 links at that point. Im hoping this can be done with .htaccess or or an add_rewrite_rule. Im just unsure of the regex to use.
Thanks Christine. Reading your post, I realized youre right. There is no reason to use .html. But, I still had .html hardcoded links as well. So, I removed .html from my permalink structure added
# Rewrite .html to postname/
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/$3/
to my .htaccess to redirect those hardcoded .html links to /category/postname structure links. Works great.
