WordPress Plugin: Home Page Link

Posted July 31st, 2007

I received an email this evening from Dan, who uses the Page Link Manager, wondering how to get a home page link to show up in his site navigation. I had never really thought about the problem, or even realized it was a problem until I started my search for a solution. There’s not much out there covering the issue besides a few forum posts at WordPress.org. But it’s an issue, nevertheless. I understand that the blog’s heading is supposed to link to your home page, but I believe there’s a large audience of Internet users, and potential readers, that wouldn’t think to look to a heading for a shortcut back to your home page.

And so we have the Home Page Link plugin.

The Plugin

v0.15 Release Changes (August 12, 2007)

This is a bug release.

Better Compatibility
The plugin now works whether your using the Pages widget or wp_list_pages.

The plugin does just what you think - adds a Home link to your site navigation (wp_list_pages). And it’s very easy to use.

Download and unzip the plugin archive.
Place the plugin file under wp-content/plugins directory on your Wordpress Installation
Log in to your admin interface and activate Home Page Link under the ‘Plugins’ tab

That’s it! You should now be able to view your site with its shiny new Home link.

Like my other plugins, I hope to keep this going as a work in progress, and work along with the WordPress community to make it more useful and efficient. If you have something you’d like to see in an upcoming version, please don’t hesitate to add a comment or contact me.

Requirements

The current release requires a server running at least PHP4. The plugin has been tested on Wordpress 2.x. If anyone has gotten it working on older versions of Wordpress, please let me know.

Resources

If you’re interested in writing plugins, the Wordpress Plugin article is an excellent resource.

Download the Plugin

All source code is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike License. If you agree to these terms, please download the plugin now.

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75 Responses to “WordPress Plugin: Home Page Link”

Караулов

April 13, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Уже пробовал - Работает.

Vik

April 28, 2009 at 7:33 am

Thanks for the plug-in. Works great - except when I attempt to nest pages. Then the ‘Home’ button disappears from the nav and sits as the first nested page underneath the main category page. The nested page I created then drops below the Home page link. Any ideas how to solve this baffling conundrum? Thanks, Vik

Alexos

May 20, 2009 at 7:03 am

Hello,

thank you for providing this ‘essential’ plug-in. Everythings works fine. A plus for navigation – at least in my theme.

Best regards,

Alex

Дайна

May 22, 2009 at 2:52 am

Забавно:)

Вера

May 22, 2009 at 10:59 am

Прeогpомный pecпект aвтоpу… Bас пpиятно читать всeгдa… Стaтья по делу, солидаpeн )))

Jacob

May 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Hi Garrett,

Great, fantastic, and awesome plugin!!!

Really easy to install and to search for on Google. This just save me several hours of brain braking work

This time I am only using it for a non-profit blog (even I work for free). But on next commercial project I will drop a little donation. Count on that!

Thanks,
Jacob

Johnny

May 29, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Well done!

Dan

June 3, 2009 at 9:19 am

I’m having the very same problem as Vik, using nested pages with the NAVT plugin. Instead of showing in the pages list, the “home” link appears below the first page, as if that page were its parent.