We love WordPress and work with it virtually every day. The navigation menu that’s been active in WordPress is incredible – a nice drag and drop feature that’s easy to use. If your theme doesn’t have a menu section where you can modify your menus, you need to find a new developer!
With the addition of our Ajax load, I wanted to reduce the size of the home link on the navigation menu and simply put a home icon. Adding an icon isn’t an option via WordPress, though, so we had to add the functionality through our theme’s functions.php file. I found a snippet online for adding the home link to the menu… I just had to modify it to use an actual image instead of the text link.
Add a Home Icon to WordPress
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_home_link', 10, 2 );
function add_home_link($items, $args) {
if (is_front_page())
$class = 'class="current_page_item home-icon"';
else
$class = 'class="home-icon"';
$homeMenuItem =
'<li ' . $class . '>' .
$args->before .
'<a href="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" title="Home">' .
$args->link_before . '<img src="[path to your home image]" height="15" width="14" />' . $args->link_after .
'</a>' .
$args->after .
'</li>';
$items = $homeMenuItem . $items;
return $items;
}
This code adds a class to the image as well so that you can adjust it’s location via your stylesheet.
awesome