Renaming Home Page to something else

Could you please provide a link to your site so I can see where the text is coming from?

Hi Kathryn,

sure. here is the link https://khodabandeh.photos/mamen&arash.

The easiest way by far to change the word “Home” in the default menu is by adding a custom menu and modifying the menu label item wording. Could you go that route or is there some reason why you didn’t want to?

I started to have a look into this. However as I have a multi language web and menu with sub-menu I was not sure if this is the right way to go (maintaining 5 menus and rebuilding the sub-menu).

As the HOME string was automatically translated and as all the rest was so easy and trivial I was sure that changing the HOME string and its translations would be a parameter.

I understand from your reply this is not the case.

Forever uses a custom filter to generate the “Home” menu item from a core WordPress function. To override it with your own text, you’ll need to add some new functions to a child theme. My colleague David put this together for you – it goes in your child theme’s functions.php file.

/**
 * Let's remove the filter in our parent theme that shows the default "Home" text.
 */
 function childtheme_remove_parent_filter() {
     remove_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'forever_page_menu_args' );
 }
 add_filter( 'init', 'childtheme_remove_parent_filter' );

 /**
  * Now that the filter from our parent theme is gone, let's add a new one.
  * Get our wp_nav_menu() fallback, wp_page_menu(), to show a customized home link.
  */
function childtheme_page_menu_args( $args ) {
    $args['show_home'] = 'New Home Text';
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'childtheme_page_menu_args' );

Using a child theme means your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
https://op111.net/53/
https://vimeo.com/39023468

I tested this in a child theme and it’s working well for me, however I don’t know how it will work with Polylang. ?? Let me know how it goes.

This looks very clean and simple (of course once David has done all the work). I did not know about child theme.

I will look into this. I will also move some of my own changes from the main theme files to the child theme!

I will make an update here with the results.

I will look into this. I will also move some of my own changes from the main theme files to the child theme!

Sounds good. That way your changes won’t be overwritten and lost every time you update the theme to the latest version. ?? I would recommend you start with a fresh download from the download link here:

https://www.ads-software.com/themes/forever/

Let me know how it goes!

Hi Kathryn,

the above worked very well. Many thanks to you and David.

To make The string Blog translatable by Polylang, I followed the receipt in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-polylang-changing-theme-options?replies=5.

In short I did:

1. applied the code proposed by David
2. declared the string 'Blog' with pll_register_string('Blog','Blog'); in the functions.php file
3. this maked the string 'Blog' translatable in the Settings > Languages > strings translations page/tab
4. prepared the various translations of 'Blog' in Settings > Languages > strings translations
5. changed in the above code from David the line
   

   $args[‘show_home’] = ‘New Home Text’;

   by

   $args[‘show_home’] = pll__(‘Blog’);

Great, glad that worked and thanks for providing the tweak needed for Polylang in case it helps others.

I’ll mark this thread as resolved.