Add Home option to Nav Menus

[LesBessant]

As mentioned in this support forum thread:

​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/394541

While it's easy enough to create a custom link with the site URL, a built-in "home" option would enable the use of the current-menu-item class.

I see this was previously requested in #12713, but as that ticket is closed, I'm adding it here - I haven't found another ticket covering it.

[nacin]

[14439] -- More menu improvements. Add link that adds a menu item to the home page, make empty menu dropzone slightly larger, limit selected items to the active tab. props koopersmith and ptahdunbar. see #13220.

Does not yet work for JS. I think koopersmith has an idea on how we can do that easily.

[nacin]

I meant non-JS. Does not work yet for non-JS. Works great for JS.

[nacin]

Also, as discussed with ryan and others, we need to work through the front end walker and check all custom links against the current URL for adding current-menu-item classes. That would include a Home link and any other.

[nacin]

(In [14457]) Check custom links, including a home link, against the current URL to see if we should add current-menu-item. props ptahdunbar, fixes #13213, see #13220.

[duck_]

Still not working for non-JS.

[nacin]

We either need to hide-if-no-js, or preferably make it a nonce link that can add it.

[filosofo]

I'll make it work sans js

[filosofo]

Patch lets you add a home link with no js enabled.

[nacin]

Tests fine, but I doubt we want to make that a button, unless we style it differently (perhaps like a link). We could do a nonce URL instead. I suppose we should ask if Jane has wanted it as something other than a link all this time, though.

[jane]

Dev chat discussion led to this implementation decision: Make Home just another 'page' in the checkbox list in the pages box. That's how users think of it. No separate link at all.

[nacin]

UX thought -- Should we really be adding this to the top anymore? Now that it's built into Pages > View All, it makes sense to follow the normal flow. That said, as discussed in IRC, it seems we ought to differentiate it a bit anyway, maybe with an icon, or "(home)" appended in gray text, or a divider, something.

[jane]

Per dev chat:
As long as Home is at the top of the checkbox list, I don't care if it adds to top in the actual menu. Is fine not to, since would be at top for a new menu, which is when it would most matter.

I don't think Home should get a different visual treatment.

[nacin]

(In [14971]) Move the "Add Home Link" functionality to a checkbox on the View All tab of the Pages metabox. Also makes it work non-JS. props filosofo, fixes #13213.

[kanuck54]

I just thought it might be mentioning that as a long-time WordPress user, new to 3.0, this was not at all discoverable. This is the only place I actually found the information I was looking for! And it just feels very hacked in — the way it shows up as "custom," the way it's just my URL in the URL box. I think you can do better, IMO.

Still, this new menus feature in general is wonderful. I can see myself making extensive use of it!

[kanuck54]

(I just thought it might be worth mentioning. Typo!)