Title: Custom page names?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom page names?

 *  [meegwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meegwell/)
 * (@meegwell)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-page-names/)
 * I am converting a non-wp site to a wp site. The site has dozens of indexed pages
   and is several years old.
 * the name structure is typically “this_is_the_page_subject.php” and it wouldn’t
   necessarily make a good page title (ie %pagetitle% in permalinks) and it uses
   underscores not dashes.
 * what are my options to maintain the exact page names for the SE listings?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-page-names/#post-833188)
 * Editing some core WP files you can change the dash to underscore (there might
   even be a plugin for it… there is almost for everything).
 * And for posts, and **onl**y for single posts, you can add any kind of extension
   into the permalinks; e.g.
    %pagetitle%.php %pagetitle%.html
 * At least, I have seen such suggested solutions here in the forum.
 *  Thread Starter [meegwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meegwell/)
 * (@meegwell)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-page-names/#post-833198)
 * thanks moshu – so it sounds like an SE friendly redirect would need to be put
   in place for each of the old pages…i believe thats a 301…

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