Is there a way to redirect that entire category without writing a Redirect 301 for each individual page?

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  Kiersten Megli: Hey All,
  Hopefully someone can help answer this question. We are needing to redirect a group of over 160 pages that are all in one category so their URLs are all mysite.com/articles/name-of-article/. Is there a way to redirect that entire category without writing a Redirect 301 for each individual page?
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  Thai Bui: Assuming that you're using Apache's .htaccess. Try this:
  RewriteRule ^articles/([a-z-]+)/$ new-articles/$1 [R=301,L]
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  Mark Steenbakkers: Hi +Kiersten Megli what CMS system are you using? Joomla, WordPress? Did you install a SEF plugin?
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  Kiersten Megli: It's on WordPress
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  Mark Steenbakkers: The solution +Thai Bui gave you should work. If you add a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file ensure that you add it before any SEF rewrites.
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  Tony McCreath: Make sure you place +Thai Bui ;s code after the line:
  
  RewriteEngine On
  
  And before the WordPress code.
  
  As an alternative with WordPress I use the Redirection plugin. It's simpler to use and makes redirections more manageable. For the above example you should be able to use:
  
  Source: ^articles/([a-z-]+)/$
  Target: ;new-articles/$1
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  Thai Bui: +Kiersten Megli ; ;Those redirect plugins for Wordpress is your best option. You can use that rule and don't have to worry about fiddling with the file as much. It takes a few trial and errors but try a few out to see which ones you like.