Thanks for the responses and solutions. I have been giving this a lot of thought today and wondered if my initial approach and the basis of this question was wrong. Currently the .htaccess file of the newsite.com redirects the domain to https:. The .htaccess file on the oldsite.net redirects all the links pointing to that site to the corresponding page on newsite.com. Im wondering if a better approach would be to code the .htaccess file of the Oldsite removing the Category at that level given that Wordpress seems to be handling the links to the new site.