.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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  • 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

    (@mbartine)

    Thanks so much, Aaron. I didn’t know custom permalinks could end with anything but “/”. Worked like a charm!

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