Title: Permalinks with a dot?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalinks with a dot?

 *  [Shilo Rune 96](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shilo-rune-96/)
 * (@shilo-rune-96)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-with-a-dot/)
 * Hi, all;
 * I am re-desining a website into wordpress that needs to contain the same URL’s
   for SEO reasons. The problem I am having, many of the client’s URL’s contain .
   html at the end. How can I configure the WordPress permalinks to allow the dot?
   Rather automatically converting this to a dash (e.g. -html).
 * Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-with-a-dot/#post-2626340)
 * > I am re-desining a website into wordpress that needs to contain the same URL’s
   > for SEO reasons
 * No they don’t. The old URLs need to redirect to the new locations, but you don’t
   HAVE to keep .html in there. 301 .htaccess redirects can do this.
 * As for how to make WP show .html at the end, edit the permalinks to end with .
   html
 *  Thread Starter [Shilo Rune 96](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shilo-rune-96/)
 * (@shilo-rune-96)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-with-a-dot/#post-2626341)
 * So you’re saying it’s more efficient to redirect the old URL’s? What might I 
   use to do this?
 * This company has spent the last 10 years link building, so it’s very important
   to them for this to be accurate.
 * Thanks!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-with-a-dot/#post-2626342)
 * Efficient … hard to say. Depends on what URLs your starting with. Better in the
   long run? I think so, since it means once you’ve gotten them redirected, you 
   don’t have to worry about it and can go forward with modern URLs.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection)
   
   [http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php](http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php)
   [http://www.htaccessredirect.net/](http://www.htaccessredirect.net/)
 * Basically you make a 301 redirect in .htaccess. You can even make the URLs ‘the
   same’ – like if you have today domain.com/about.html, make a page called ‘about’,
   make sure it has that as it’s SLUG (that which is translating your dots to dashes
   right now) and then just toss this in your .htaccess:
 *     ```
       RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1
       ```
   
 * That will send all whatever.html to just plain ‘whatever’ and you’re done.
 * The setup is a pain, but once you’ve got it down, you’re done.

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-with-a-dot/#post-2626342)
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