{"id":190,"date":"2019-05-13T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:31:16","slug":"html-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"HTML redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most requested items we get is \u201cHow do I make an html redirect page\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely enough this is one of the easiest things to accomplish, but then anything is easy when you know how to do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the code:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \u201c-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\u201d&gt;<br>\n&lt;html&gt;<br>\n&lt;head&gt;<br>\n&lt;title&gt;Your Page Title&lt;\/title&gt;<br>\n&lt;meta http-equiv=\u201dREFRESH\u201d content=\u201d0;url=http:\/\/www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com\u201d&gt;&lt;\/HEAD&gt;<br>\n&lt;BODY&gt;<br>\nOptional page text here.<br>\n&lt;\/BODY&gt;<br>\n&lt;\/HTML&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Code Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;meta http-equiv=\u201dREFRESH\u201d content=\u201d0;url=http:\/\/www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com\u201d&gt; is the part that actually does the redirecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number preceding the url (in this case zero) tells the browser the number of seconds to wait before redirecting to the new url.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could set this to 5 and add some optional text to your page \u2013 something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease wait while we redirect you to our new site\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it! Just copy the code, save it (i.e. save as index.html) and your html redirect will work perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most requested items we get is \u201cHow do I make an html redirect page\u201d. Strangely enough this is one of the easiest things to accomplish, but then anything is easy when you know how to do it! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}