How to Show Home Link In wp_nav_menu Default Fallback Function

6th Jan 2011 | Posted by reza | 18 Comments

WordPress wp_nav_menu function is really helpful to display a custom navigation menus in your wordpress theme. The custom menu can be set in the admin area, easily, with a drag-and-drop interface, similar to the way widgets are added to “sidebars”.

If you use wp_nav_menu() in your theme and the menu is not created yet in the admin area of WP, wp_nav_menu() will fallback to wp_page_menu() function, by default.

Ok, here’s the problem. You want to show home link, if the custom menu has not set yet, ie. the default fallback function which is wp_page_menu(), is called.

The wp_page_menu() doesn’t show home link, by default. The home link can be easily shown, via the function ‘show_home’ argument. But, this is different case, wp_page_menu() is used as fallback function. To show home link, needs different solution.

You can use the code below as the solution:


function my_page_menu_args( $args ) {
	$args['show_home'] = true;
	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'my_page_menu_args' );

Put the code in the theme function.php

Credit:
The code is taken from twenty ten theme

6 Comments to “How to Show Home Link In wp_nav_menu Default Fallback Function”

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Vaseem Ansari says:

January 11, 2011 at 01:57

i want to know how to show categories their sub cats and few selected pages in header using wp_nav_menu
thanks

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- reza says:
  
  January 11, 2011 at 02:52
  
  Can You just set them in your site admin, in menu section?
  
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Julio says:

January 13, 2011 at 17:40

Wonderful, but I want to know how can I do for change the word “Home” for another. Sorry if I have mistakes in my english. I’m Salvadorean. Thanks a lot.

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- B12GoLD says:
  
  December 17, 2011 at 16:20
  
  Use this code:
  ‘Blog’, ‘sort_column’ => ‘menu_order’ ) ); ?>
  replace Blog with another text
  
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