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How To Create A Custom Menu Link To The Blog Index In WordPress

Last updated on January 2, 2018 By Craig Leave a Comment

It seems easy enough, create a custom menu link to the blog index in WordPress. Why couldn’t I figure this out?

I wanted a menu item to point back to my home page, the page that contained the index of all my blog posts. Turns out I was making this much more difficult then it needed to be, and it was easily solved using the standard Menu option in the Appearance menu.

Create A Custom Menu Link To The Blog Index In WordPress

My Situation

I had a blog that was in use for a while, and it was originally set up to be just a blog with no menu items. I had set my Reading settings so that the front page of my blog displayed my latest posts (no static page). When a reader went to my site, they saw the blog index page.

I recently made some changes, to add a menu that would display some additional information related to the site. Easy enough. The problem was, I didn’t want the blog content to be displayed on a separate blog page that needed to be accessed from a navigation menu, I wanted to keep it on the “home page”, just as it always was.

Lets look at an example to clarify.

When you create a menu item, say for an About Page, you first must create a Page in WordPress that contains the content for your About Page. You then create a menu item that points to that new Page, and when someone views that page, the URL looks something like this:

www.yoursite.com/about/

Now I had my menu item defined, with links to the new pages. The problem was, I couldn’t figure out a way to create a menu item for home page, my blog index. As I stated previously, I wanted to maintain my initial blog structure, so all my posts would still show at:

www.yoursite.com/

Not at:

www.yoursite.com/blog/

Create A Custom Menu Link To The Blog Index

The point that I was over complicating was that you don’t need to have a WordPress Page defined for every menu item that you want to create! You can easily create a custom link to add to your menu, that points to any URL that you desire.

All of this can be defined in the Appearance – Menus option. Once you have your menu defined that links to the Page(s) on your site, you need to set up a custom link that points to your blog index (your home page).

  1. Select Appearance – Menus from the WordPress options
  2. Select the Links Drop Down on the left side of the page
  3. In the URL Field, add your main site (www.yoursite.com/)
  4. In the Name Field, add the menu item you want to reference the above URL (call it Home or Blog).
  5. Select the Add To Menu option

Create Custom Menu Link To The Blog Index

No need to define a Page that links to the menu. Probably a no-brainer for most WordPress user’s, but none the less, I thought this might help someone who was wondering how to create a custom menu link to the blog index.

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