Add alternate primary navigation menu just for home page?

[okieman]

On our site, our minister wants the nav menu on the home/splash page to only show three links. Then the full version should display on all other pages. Same location in the layout. I have been doing this with CSS. It got messy. WP developers in StackExchange suggested I create a new menu in functions.php that is just for the home page, and use "is_home()" to display it only there.
But in the past, I had to abandon another customization project because Outreach Pro is a child theme. Any "gotcha" warnings about this alternate menu for the home page before I proceed?

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[Brad Dalton]

There's many different options:

1. You can code the custom menu in your functions file using a conditional tag
2. You can code the custom menu in your front-page.php file
3. You can code a custom widget area for the front page only and use the custom menu widget
4. You can try the Genesis Simple Menus plugin

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes & WooCommerce.

[okieman]

I really like options 1-3. Looks like #3 could all be done in the admin area? Do you have an opinion about pros/cons of #1 and #2?

[Brad Dalton]

3 is easiest for you. Here's the code.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes & WooCommerce.

[okieman]

Thanks for that link!! I was trying to squeeze out information because I have a contract gig where about half the clients are on WordPress. I've been working with it about 2 years and before that a very different platform: ColdFusion. So I'm collecting ideas on how to handle challenges.

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