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How can I get a Home link in my menu to take me back to the main page, not to a page called /home?

http://www.mike-chapman.com is where I'm working. If I create a page called Home, it just takes me to /home. If I delete the home page, there's nothing to click on except the header image that will take me back to the main blog page.

The template tag, wp_page_menu(), was designed to show a "Home" link without actually having to create a Page.

<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=1'); ?>

Typically wp_page_menu would be used in place of wp_list_pages.

Good to know. I don't know php, but I can guess how it works to some degree and play around with it

My menu is displayed with:
wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=2&sort_column=menu_order');

I tried sticking &show_home=1 in there, but that didn't display anything:
wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=2&sort_column=menu_order&show_home=1');

Then I tried replacing list_pages with page_menu, but that makes the menu display below the location for it, making half of it unseen:
wp_page_menu('title_li=&depth=2&sort_column=menu_order&show_home=1');

I'm going to keep playing around with it when I have more time. Thank you for the quick reply.

You could always add a link to your home(main) page in your blog roll and just link it to your main page.

I see why my playing around didn't work. wp_page_menu does not support 'title_li=', while wp_list_pages does. And wp_list_pages does not support show_home. So I thought for a second I was stuck with trying to rework the theme (or at least the style sheet) to get what I want to work.

But then I found this code and it worked for me: