Change the menu home link to something else

Question

I'm using the built in menu system, and I wan't to change the text of the home menu link to something else, like "hjem", and i have tried placing this in the code:

<?php wp_page_menu( array( 'show_home' => 'Hjem', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' ) ); ?>

But that did nothing but show the menu, with the home menu text "Home".

What do I do?

Answer 1

Funnily enough, I see the same behavior in WordPress 3.4.2 and 3.5-beta2. No plugins active, theme TwentyEleven.

Even setting show_home as false will show the Home button ?!

Checking the core, I see this filter that does the trick:

add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'wpse_70551_change_page_menu');

function wpse_70551_change_page_menu($args) {
    $args['show_home'] = "Hjem";
    return $args;
}

[Update]
This was a bug with the Bundled Themes.

The culprit is twentyeleven_page_menu_args() (twentytwelve_page_menu_args() in Twenty Twelve).

It ignores any passed value and enforces true instead: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.2/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/functions.php#L372

22331.patch​ is a fix for all three themes.