Front Page Menu Only

[sethbahookey]

All,

How would I set up a conditional in Genesis to have a different front page menu compared to the rest of my site?

Thanks,
Seth

[Brad Dalton]

1. You can do this using a custom function with conditional tag

or

2. In your front-page.php file you can remove the primary nav menu and then add back another.

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[sethbahookey]

Thanks so much Brad! You always come out of left field with a great tutorial that you have created. 😀

[sethbahookey]

Brad,

It doesn't look like I can target this menu because technically it is a widget in the Right Header widget section. I've spent quite some time on this today and I'm not much closer to a solution.

I only want a front page menu on the front page and then for the rest of the pages I'll have a standard menu.

Is there a simple tutorial to this? I haven't been able to find a guide for Genesis specifically on how to do this.

[sethbahookey]

Ok I think I have this figured out, but I don't think the styling is 100% still any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

So first thing is first.. I had the menu in the right header widget area. I removed the menu from that and unregistered it first

//* Unregister the right header widget area
unregister_sidebar( 'header-right' );

Then I had to create secondary menu area as Centric Pro doesn't have that as a default

//* Registering a new menu area
add_action( 'init', 'register_additional_menu' );
function register_additional_menu() {
	register_nav_menu( 'secondary' ,__( 'Secondary Navigation Menu' ));   
}

Then I had to reposition the primary and secondary nav up into the right hand side of the header area

//* Remove the default hook locations and move into right header
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_do_nav', 12 );

remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_subnav' );
add_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_do_subnav', 12 );

Finally I created a conditional for it to load based on whether it was a front page or standard page

//* Conditionally load menus
add_action( 'genesis_header', 'front_page_load' );
function front_page_load() {
	if ( is_front_page() ) {
		add_theme_support( 'genesis-menus', array( 'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation Menu', 'genesis' ) ) );
	} else {
		add_theme_support( 'genesis-menus', array( 'secondary' => 'Secondary Navigation Menu', 'container_class' => 'genesis-nav-menu', 'genesis' ) );	
	}
}

Then I had to do a whole bunch of style edits to the style sheet :/ It looks alright, but I still think there is a better way to do this.

[Brad Dalton]

Excellent effort!

There are always different ways to code the same solution.

Note: Your original question did not state you where using the header right widget therefore my answers where not targeting that element.

Here's my solution for members of WP Sites only http://wpsites.net/wordpress-tips/different-nav-menu-on-front-page/

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