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Redirect old pages – SEO

I have an old website, which has been transfered to a wordpress install, with a lot of pages being numbered (That tells you the age of the website) and I want to redirect them to the main home page for now to limit 404 errors.

Examples of page names:

https://example.com/news3068.html
https://example.com/news2464.html
https://example.com/news537.html
https://example.com/news953.html
https://example.com/news2362.html

Now I want to redirect anything /news{number}.html to domain.com

How do I do this with regex, I have SEO Redirection Installed as it’s able to do regex redirections as was advised to me, but I have no idea how to do this as I haven’t come across regex before.

Thank you in advance

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I found the answer in the end

    ^/news[0-9]{3,4}.html

    The Breakdown:-

    ^/news   (starts with /news)
    [0-9]{3,4}  (Contains the numbers 0-9 for 3 to 4 digits.. Only)
    .html    (finishes with .html)

    Hope this helps people in furture - Its working on a wordpress plugin SEO Redirection Free as a Regex Redirect


  2. 0

    Use plugin Redirection By John Godley. Try to make this settings:

    Source url: /news(.*).html
    Target: https://example.com/
    on group “redirections”

    Please make sure that you have regex tick box checked, right to source url!

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