Is this the way to do wildcard redirects?

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I have read 301 redirects | Webflow University but Im still a bit confused.

In a WordPress site that I’m moving to Webflow, my posts urls start with the year, for example:
esmoscu.com/2020/post1
esmoscu.com/2020/post2
esmoscu.com/2020/post400

So, I want to redirect all my posts under esmoscu.com/2020/… to esmoscu.com/blog/…

Is this the correct way to do it?
Old path: /2020/(.*)
Redirect to path: /blog/%1

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Yes that’s correct. Just make sure that the post slug stays the same as it was on WordPress, or it won’t redirect

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Thanks for your reply. A little confirmation is reassuring :grin:

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I just realize that I probably need to keep the “2020” in the new slug.

Because the current WordPress url is like this:
esmoscu.com/2020/10-learning-tips

So, the new webflow url should be like this:
esmoscu.com/blog/2020/10-learning-tips

Hence,
Old path: /2020/(.*)
Redirect to path: /blog/2020/%1

Am I on the right track?

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Yeah that seems right.

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Hi everyone,

I’m facing a similar case, though it seems slightly more complex. The slugs of my blog posts in WordPress all start with the full date. E.g.,https://www.saent.com/2015/01/02/habits-of-habits/.

In Webflow, this will become http://www.saent.com/blog/habits-of-habits. How should I set up a 301 redirect for this?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Tim

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Hey @Tim_Metz, to prevent conflicts with the rest of your site I think I’d create one for each year like this;

/2015/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) → /blog/%3

/2016/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) → /blog/%3

/2017/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) → /blog/%3