Title: WordPress permalinks vs "dot.php"
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress permalinks vs "dot.php"

 *  [Nabonga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nabonga/)
 * (@nabonga)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalinks-vs-dotphp/)
 * I am in the process of completely re-doing a non-Wordpress site and making it
   WordPress.
 * With my non-Wordpress site the pages end with .php.
    With WordPress they end 
   with the name of the page or post but no extension.
 * So, there is no way to replace a page called [http://www.mysite.com/links.php](http://www.mysite.com/links.php)
   with the same url in WordPress because in WordPress it would be [http://www.mysite.com/links/?](http://www.mysite.com/links/?)
 * This would mean that an old page with the .php extension that currently is recognized
   by search engines, once all the information from that page is transferred to 
   a WordPress page, the search engines would have to start from scratch and search
   engine status would be completely lost initially?
 * Is there any way around this?

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 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalinks-vs-dotphp/#post-6774067)
 * You can always set up an .htaccess with 301 redirects.
 *  Thread Starter [Nabonga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nabonga/)
 * (@nabonga)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalinks-vs-dotphp/#post-6774079)
 * Thanks Kjodle. I will look into that.

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 * Last reply from: [Nabonga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nabonga/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalinks-vs-dotphp/#post-6774079)
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