Note: Once the redirects are all in place and tested, you need not actually host those old files as no one will ever get to them.
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Thanks again.
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The 301’s should occur before the permalinks rules.
…is it OK to have several old files pointing to a single new page?
Yes. But you should ask the search engines to re-index the site (for SEO) if those links have been up for any period of time.
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