Redirect pagination to base Url in website Wordpress

Question

How can I display the URLs on my site in a cleaner fashion, example:

Change
example.com/item/page-1.html
to
example.com/item/

Answer 1

If you want to update permalinks to not include index.php then add a .htaccess file to the wordpress folder and add the following content to it:

# 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

Then go to the Wordpress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > and change it to "post name" and save changes.