How to use new-style redirect rules for a blog migration

General Rules
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I am moving an old blog, which means a change in page structure. Pages that had the structure /YYYY/post-title will become /blog/post-title, e.g. this…

/2011/circuit-training-what-is-it-why-do-it/

would become this…

/blog/circuit-training-what-is-it-why-do-it/

We have a bunch of links from other sites that we want to keep working, so want to create a redirect from old-form to new.

With the old page-rules I would do:

matching url:  https://www.domain.com/20*/*

forwarding url:  https://www.domain.com/blog/$2

I want to use the new-style rules, which I think means a redirect-rule but I don’t know how to. Suggestions?
(Oh, and fyi, I have a pro account, which I think means I don’t have access to the regex)

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With the new Redirect Rules, to perform the redirect you have now with a Page Rule with a Single Redirect (Dynamic) rule you’d need the regex_replace function, which unfortunately is only available with a Business or Enterprise Plan.

That means your options are:

  1. Upgrade your plan
  2. Create a list matching each of your post to their new URL, then create a Bulk Redirect using this list.
  3. Use a Page Rule until it’s deprecated
  4. Make the redirect work at your origin.