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I have homepage which needs to redirect to another page. For this to accomplish, I used the meta fresh tag 

<meta http-equiiv=refresh content="6; url=/home/">

And, it works perfectly. Later I found on Internet that this meta fresh code tag has been deprecated and is not at all SEO friendly.

Then I used one js code 

<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout("window.location='url'",5000);
</script>

and it's also working.. now, my concern is - which one still better (most SEO friendly or is there any other hack in redirecting a simple page to another WP normal page?

Thanks in advance.

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  • If your goal is to misdirect a search engine into believing the content is there then JavaScript won't help. Google's engine is sophisticated enough to realize you're changing the URL. If your intention is to have a URL actually redirect to correct content then you'll want to use wp_redirect() as below. There isn't really a great reason to show a page for 5 seconds.
    – Andy Jacobs
    Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 1:25
  • Thanks. honestly speaking, the front page is kind of a landing page with just a welcome message and with a link to the actual homepage. However, I wish the page automatically goes to the homepage (the actual homepage I mean). There is virtually no substance in the front page. However, I have also thought of noindexing the frontpage www.example.com and making the homepage www.exampple.com/home/ the actual homepage. makes sense?
    – kalyan
    Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 5:40
  • Then remove that "landing" page. Those things are just annoying. You are competing enough online without irritating your users with pointless "features"
    – s_ha_dum
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 15:31
  • If your concern is SEO you should do 301 redirect.
    – user16077
    Commented Oct 16, 2016 at 23:25

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Though wp_redirect() doesn't allow a delay, PHP's header() ( which is what wp_redirect uses ) does via refresh.

This may work for you. 

<?php 
  header( "refresh:5;url=wherever.php" ); 
  echo 'You\'ll be redirected in about 5 secs. If not, click <a href="wherever.php">here</a>.';
?>
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There are two ways to do this:

1 Using wp_redirect()

Add following code to top of index.php

<?php if (is_home() || is_front_page())  wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; ?>

Or create new page template if you are using page as front page

<?php /*  
Template Name: Page Redirect
*/ 

 wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; 

?>

2 Using a plugin, Quick Page/Post Redirect

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  • Kate, don't rollback my formatting. Please, when you add code to your posts, highlight the code, and check just above the editor, there are a {} sign. Click on that, your code will be automatically be added to a code block, this will display your code as in my edit
    – Pieter Goosen
    Commented Jun 16, 2014 at 10:06
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    Thanks but how to use this with a timeout (redirect after a few seconds)
    – kalyan
    Commented Jun 16, 2014 at 10:30
  • You cannot. The only way to have a delayed redirection is using JS.
    – Eric Holmes
    Commented Jun 16, 2014 at 13:39
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    Yup, I hove also figured this out. So, this js code is okay? <script type="text/javascript"> setTimeout("window.location='url'",5000); </script>
    – kalyan
    Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 5:41
  • wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-after-time
    – mrmut
    Commented Feb 16, 2020 at 22:03
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If you are not the coding type, but you want an amazingly versatile free tool, I endorse Quick Pagepost Redirect Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/

It can handle Wordpress redirects and meta redirects (in case you need a delay)

It supports 301, 302, 307, and meta redirects. You can add URL's to avoid 404's also.

If you are upgrading a site and changing page urls and wish to preserve seo ranking, this is the tool my friend uses (he's a pro)

This will do it all - no coding.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with these guys in any way.

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How about just using php sleep to delay the wp_redirect for a few seconds?

<?php
sleep(3);
wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit;
?>
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  • i think this would not work, because you can't see the page while is "sleeping"
    – Magico
    Commented Mar 3, 2017 at 13:51

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