Redirect posts from a one category to a new URL with .htaccess

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I’ve been searching all over but can’t quite find exactly what I’m looking for so here goes.

I have quite a large blog and would like to move the posts from a specific category to a new domain and will need the old URL’s for just that category redirect to the new domain.

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For example I have the category ‘paper’, I plan to export all the posts from WordPress in that category and import them to my new site on a new domain. so I want:

www.currenthome.com/paper/post-name-here

to redirect to

www.newhome.com/paper/post-name-here

I have over 900 posts which will need directing.

Just to be clear I only one the posts from one specific category to be redirected. The rest of the posts on the current site should not be affected.

Any help will be much appreciated!

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  1. You may try this in the root .htaccess file of currenthome, below the WP rule-set: 

    Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  (?:www.)?currenthome.com  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/paper/([^/]+)/?      [NC]
RewriteRule .*   http://www.newhome.com/paper/%1   [R=301,L]

    Redirects permanently:

    http://www.currenthome.com/paper/post-name-here or

    http://currenthome.com/paper/post-name-here with or without trailing slash.

    To:

    http://www.newhome.com/paper/post-name-here

    For silent mapping, remove R=301 from [R=301,L].