How to show taxonomy on front page

Question

I have set template taxonomy-event_type.php which displays just right on http://localhost:8000/types/<type_name>/.

What I need now is to:

• either redirect when user lands on http://localhost:8000 to this page,
• or use this template with (what wouldn't be greatest, as i'm checking the url and setting navigation items as active according to the url)

So something like (PSEUDOCODE):

if is_home(): 
   redirect('types/type1')

or

use_template('taxonomy-event_type','type1');

is it possible?

Answer 1

Found a solution:

// redirect on homepage to taxonomy
add_action("template_redirect", function() {
    if (is_front_page()) {
        return wp_redirect(get_term_link('type1', 'event_type'));
    }
});