Navigation/Links, customizing 'home' link

  • wrightj999

    (@wrightj999)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    For my wordpress sites, I usually make the static page the page that shows up when people first go to the site (instead of the blog).

    So for example, when people go to my http://www.wholeaf.com site, they go to the ‘about us’ page first.

    So when you are at the page, in the link navigation bar, the ‘About Us’ link is highlighted. And of course the home page link in the nav bar takes you to the ‘About Us’ page. I’d really like to clean this up and not have two links to the same page in the nav bar. Is there a way to get rid of the ‘About Us’ link in the navbar and just have the ‘home’ link point to the ‘about us’ page?

    That is what I’d like to do. Any suggestions, or to be let known if this is just not possible (something tells me it must be though), would be greatly appreciated.

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  • david.bailey

    (@davidbailey-1)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    In the appearance > menu, you should be able to remove the home link in the menu. It sounds like it might just be falling back to the default menu, so try to create a new menu, and apply it to the primary nav.

    Thread Starter wrightj999

    (@wrightj999)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Okay, so I figured out what I really want to do (and it’s actually a little different than I first suggested). I don’t think it involves going to the appearance>menu like you suggest, as I somehow have managed to do this with one site of mine, but now I’m not recalling how I pulled it off.

    I need to keep the home link, but have a static page be what the website opens up to upon opening the site. So I obviously have this set in the settings>reading config to go to the ‘About Us’ page. I want there to be no ‘About Us’ link in the navigation bar, but instead have the home link point to that page.

    I have done this with my site http://www.cwws.org. Where I have a page called “professional multimedia services”, but the link says home, and there is no link in the navigation bar that says “professional media services”.

    When I go to the appearance>menu like you suggest, it only asks me to add a new menu, and all the other options are ghosted.

    Thread Starter wrightj999

    (@wrightj999)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve also just had a slight revelation. the http://www.cwws.org website is a customized version of theme 2011 1.3. It must be something hard coded into the theme, that conveniently allows you to set a static page as the home page (via settings>reading), and when you do this in the 2011 theme it doesn’t generate a link in the navbar, but just keeps the ‘home’ link active.

    So there is something different going on with the 2011 theme as compared to the nantucket website, where I am going to have to figure out how to make it act like the 2011 theme.

    Any takers on giving advice to this?

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