Title: .html to wordpress while keeping link integrity
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# .html to wordpress while keeping link integrity

 *  [mbartine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbartine/)
 * (@mbartine)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-wordpress-while-keeping-link-integrity/)
 * I have a website that I’m planning on switching over to WordPress from html.
 * I’m concerned, because all my pages currently end in “title.html”. After converting
   to WP, they’re all going to end, “/title/”.
 * I’m afraid this means I’m going to lose link integrity within my site from page
   to page, and will the search engines be confused by the change from html to WP?
 * Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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 *  [Aaron Butacov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron-harun/)
 * (@aaron-harun)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-wordpress-while-keeping-link-integrity/#post-716123)
 * 1) You can keep the .html if you like, you just need to tack it onto the end 
   of your permalink.
 * 2) If you update the WordPress permalinks, all links dynamically generated will
   be updated.
 * 3) Search engines will be confused that the page URLs changed and your pages 
   may temporarily fall from the index as the SE adjust to the changes. If you don’t
   want to have you new URLs end in .html you should be able to find instructions
   to redirect all old URLs to the new ones. Just google around a bit.
 *  Thread Starter [mbartine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbartine/)
 * (@mbartine)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-wordpress-while-keeping-link-integrity/#post-716178)
 * Thanks so much, Aaron. I didn’t know custom permalinks could end with anything
   but “/”. Worked like a charm!

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-wordpress-while-keeping-link-integrity/#post-716178)
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