Change Nav Bar 'Home' Button

[bwilcosh]

Hello,

I noticed on the Car Auction Reviews website that the Home button was listed as 'Car Auction Review Home' and not just 'Home'. Is there an easy way to modify the home button to take advantage of better on-page SEO?

The button also links to a HTML page outside of the WordPress folder. Anyone know how to do this?

Still trying to feel my way around WordPress and looking for a little help not included on the videos.

Thanks,

Bill

[Carm]

Hi Bill,

In the back-end of your WP site, Under Presentation, Theme Editor, go to Header php and scroll down until you find

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="selected">> Home[*]<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&titl e_li='); ?>[/list]
Where it says "Home" make that "Your Niche Home" or whatever you want the title to be.

I'm not sure how you would do the other, probably with the href but I haven't delved that far yet.

[stefank]

Originally Posted by Carm

Hi Bill,


<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="selected">> Home[*]<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&titl e_li='); ?>[/list]
I'm not sure how you would do the other, probably with the href but I haven't delved that far yet.

I think enough is to add one more[*] tag to this code, example:

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="selected">> Home[*]<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>[*] Anchor Text[/list]

[bwilcosh]

Hello,

Changing the Header file worked perfectly and should help a touch with the on-page SEO. Changing the landing page for the 'Home' button will be an option if we want to direct the site visitors to a Static HTML page like Robert's Car Auction Review site. I can really see the advantages of this approach, especially if you want to do a little additional pre-sell.

Thanks to both of you for the help,

Bill

[Carm]

Thanks Stefank for the code, that's great.

I agree with you Bill, it's good to have that option to have a static html page, especially if you have a product sales/landing page, your own or an affiliate product.

Thanks guys :-D

[joaquin]

Originally Posted by stefank

I think enough is to add one more[*] tag to this code, example:

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="selected">> Home[*]<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>[*] Anchor Text[/list]

This
Just wanted to say thanks for this post to stefank and carm.
I've very recently been looking at how to change the home page and now thanks to you to I found the solution.

Indeed I Do Thank You Both


Joaquin