Title: Remove ‘.html’ extension?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Remove ‘.html’ extension?

 *  Resolved [rob101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob101/)
 * (@rob101)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/)
 * Hi
 * I noticed that some blogs have ‘.html’ at the end of every permalink ie
    **domain.
   com/article-name.html** rather than **domain.com/article-name/** which is much
   cleaner How do I make sure the ‘.html’ extension is not displayed or required?
   Is this automatic for all WordPress blogs?
 * Many thanks
 * Rob

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712034)
 * The .html will only appear if custom permalinks have been specifically set up
   to show it. Normal WordPress behaviour is for the cleaner version.
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712035)
 * Actually, there are many people running a database website who’d love to have
   the .html extension, because search engines find .html addresses more important!
 *  Thread Starter [rob101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob101/)
 * (@rob101)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712038)
 * Hi
 * Ok, thanks LesBessant.
    Good point Gangleri.
 * Resolved.
 * Many thanks to you both
 * Rob
 *  Thread Starter [rob101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob101/)
 * (@rob101)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712063)
 * I found this in the WordPress online docs…
 * There’s an easy way to having your posts end in a .html extension, using the 
   structure tags above. Following the example used on properly terminating permalinks,
   you could have a page like [http://yoursite.com/2006/01/01/happy-newyear.html](http://yoursite.com/2006/01/01/happy-newyear.html)
   with this rule:
 *  /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html
 * Now it only provides limited, if any SEO benefits
 * Cheers
 * Rob
 *  [prabhurajk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prabhurajk/)
 * (@prabhurajk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712398)
 * .html extension of posts
 *  [prabhurajk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prabhurajk/)
 * (@prabhurajk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712399)
 * 3.Add a .htm OR .html OR .php at the end of the post detail page. For Eg:
 * [http://trends.move.com/hot-properties-homes-for-sale-in-up-and-coming-neighborhoods](http://trends.move.com/hot-properties-homes-for-sale-in-up-and-coming-neighborhoods)
   
   should be
 * [http://trends.move.com/hot-properties-homes-for-sale-in-up-and-coming-neighborhoods.html](http://trends.move.com/hot-properties-homes-for-sale-in-up-and-coming-neighborhoods.html)

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Remove ‘.html’ extension?’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [prabhurajk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prabhurajk/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-html-extension/#post-712399)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics