Can URLs be redirected on a hosted WordPress blog?

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If I have a blog on another blogging service which has category-based URLs like 

http://something.com/news
http://something.com/downloads

can I transfer it to a hosted WordPress blog and still have those URLs work or redirect?

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WordPress.com only seems to allow 

http://something.com/category/news
http://something.com/category/downloads

is there any way to make this work? Will WordPress implement it for me as a paid service? Is there any other way to make redirects or url rewrites work?

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  1. This can be done using WordPress’s Rewrite Rules feature. It allows you define pretty urls that can be mapped to URLs that WordPress understands.

    WordPress.com won’t support this out of the box. For that you’ll need to be a VIP customer, and add a custom plugin that adds such rewrite rules.

    With a self-hosted WordPress.org site you will be able to do this by adding a few rewrite rules to your functions.php or in a custom plugin.

    For instance, below I mapped /news to a news category.

    add_rewrite_rule(
  '^news', 'index.php?category_name=news', 'top'
);