Title: Permalinks customize
Last modified: March 29, 2020

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# Permalinks customize

 *  [zillianne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zillianne/)
 * (@zillianne)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-customize/)
 * I have a website online with another CMS system (CMSimple).
 * Also a cool and easy CMS, but now I want to change to WordPress.
 * The current site is +10 years old and gives very good Google search results.
 * It would be ideal if I could set the permalinks in WordPress so they become exactly
   the same as the url’s of the existing site, so there is no ‘page not found’ when
   we go online with wordpress.
 * My links have the following structure:
 * `https://www.mydomainname.be/?Welcome`
 * Is this possible to fix this by settings, permalinks … or is there a plugin to
   achieve the wanted result?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-customize/#post-12593083)
 * If you have a manageable number of pages, use the plugin “redirection” to set
   up redirects. Eventually, you’ll have no need for the old links as search engines
   will figure out the new ones.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)
 * One of the features is “Import and export to CSV for viewing in a spreadsheet”
   so if you can’t work out a regex for redirection, you can just do them in a spreadsheet
   then import it.
 *  Thread Starter [zillianne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zillianne/)
 * (@zillianne)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-customize/#post-12593161)
 * Steve,
 * redirects are not an option.
 * The CMSimple site needs index.php to show anything. The index.php of that site
   must be set to non active in order to have a new index.php for the wordpress 
   site.
 * So, all current indexed (cmsimple) pages would give ‘page does not exist’.
 * Therefore, of I could find a way to get WordPress to give exactly the same url
   
   mydomain.com/?Welcome, the Google results can be kept intact.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-customize/#post-12593498)
 * I don’t think it’s possible to do what you want.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-customize/#post-12593498)
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