How to auto refresh (reload) Joomla page?

[dream2red]

Is it possible to autorefresh (reload) Joomla front page every few minutes?

Maybe some timer plugin?

Thank you

[Chris Davenport]

This should be straightforward if you add a little code to your template. Read these to figure out how:
http://dev.joomla.org/component/option, ... ront_page/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh
http://docs.joomla.org/JDocument/setMetaData

Regards,
Chris.

[newbie_user]

and please read these links too :

Why META should not be used to redirect or auto-refresh pages?

(This automatic refresh can be very disorienting to some users.)
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CORE-TECHS/ ... ge-refresh
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#meta-element

[m soweidan]

hi.. please follow the instructions

Cool, it worked.

Here's what I did:

1. Go to "Extensions" and click on "Module Manager"

2. Click on the "New" Icon

3. Select "Custom" and then "Next"

4. I named my module "Refresh" Down at the bottom in the editor I inserted a meta refresh tag e.g.: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">

5. Make sure you do this without using a wysiwyg editor. You can always change back, but for some reason inserting code into the HTML source editor on TinyMCE doesn't like it.

6. Select "NO" for show title, and then down by the "Menu Selection" box, select "Select Menu Item(s)" Click on the sections you want to refresh.

I hope this helps.

And I hear you on the not so helpful experienced people. I'm a newbe and I've had to comb through I don't know how many sites just to get a few answers.