Wordpress SEO addresses in Google and site maps?

[cls4690]

SEO/Google question: My Wordpress sitemaps had pages with URLs like "….com/interests/" but google shows "...com/interests.html" which isn't valid. How do I fix this? I have the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast, which makes a site map for the pages. I checked the site map and its listing is correct as "..com/interests"
Oddly enough, the google results for the pages still have my meta tag descriptions show up, its just that the actual link to the page has the .html at the end
I already have a site map with the correct URLs, my issue is that certain pages (that previously existed on my past website version) show up in GOOGLE as .html when wordpress does not use .html URL endings

[Matthew Briggs]

Have you tried All In One SEO? There is also a plugin called XML-Sitemap that makes a sitemap for you and submits it to Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Let me know if any of those work for you.

[Jack Tyler]

You can have the .html pages 301 redirect to the real pages although I dont think it matters much have you rankings changed much? Google will eventually figure it out

I think that the following is the code to put in your .htaccess for the redirect.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php