How To: Make a Menuless Home Page

Sometimes for design purposes the home page link isn't a desireable part of the main menu. Luckily there is an easy fix for this.

1. Put homepage in hidden menu
2. Link logo to homepage

If one doesn't yet exist create a menu called "hidden_menu." This can be done easily by going to menu>menu manager within the admin side of the site and then selecting new. If you already have a hidden menu in the site then your even closer to being done.

Go to menus>mainmenu and select the checkbox next to home (this should be the defaulted menu item). Select move from the top right control buttons and move the menu item to "hidden_menu". You will be automatically taken to the hidden menu complete with your homepage menu item in it.

The danger in removing the visual marker for the home page from the main menu is that you might be stuck with users only being able to navigate to your home page by entering in the base url for your site. This can be solved by making sure that your site logo is linkable back to the homepage - since most site visitors are now accostumed to using the site logo as a form of navigation.

From the admin side go to extensions>module manager open the logo module (probably type = custom) for editing. Click on the logo image to select it and then use the link button to add a hyperlink to the image. The url for the link should simply be index.php, as demonstrated below.

<a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/stories/logo.png"></a>