How to refresh a template page on Wordpress in 3 seconds - easiest method?

Question

Basically, on my site I have content submitted via a search bar. I'm using a content-none template to detect if the user is signed in - and if so it submits a post programmatically (if the post doesn't exist)

Now, after this is done I'd like the page to refresh after 3 seconds, and since it will pick up the previous search term, it will go to the submitted post automatically.

Is there a PHP or Wordpress method of doing this? Or will I need to insert JavaScript into the template page? (or in theory - possibly a way of forwarding to the $post_id? though I don't know how to grab it via the search term or with the info from wp_insert_post... )

FYI I cannot get header('refresh: 3;'); to work

Answer 1

Found a method!

echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="3">' ;