Set a different home link in nav menu

Question

I've my website with homepage link set to http://www.mysite.com.

I've also many pages with subpages, and in that subpages i've already a link in the content that returns to the top level parent page.

Is it also possible to set this link in the nav menu overwriting my default home link?

Thanks,

Stefano

Answer 1

You can put in Custom links from the wordpress menu dashboard.

Answer 2

You could make it with your theme with the hook wp_nav_menu_items :

add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'wpse_104145_custom_home_link', 10, 2);
function wpse_104145_custom_home_link($items, $args) {

if( $args->theme_location == 'primary' )
    global $post;
    if($post->post_parent) {
    $permalink = get_permalink($post->post_parent);
    $homeLink = '<li id="home_link"><a href="' . $permalink . '">'.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'</a></li>';
    return $homeLink . $items;
    } else {
    return $items;
    }
}