How do I exclude a single menu item from the home page?

Question

I have a menu that displays on every page, and the top link for that menu is the "Home" link. The clients do not want this menu item to appear when a user is viewing the home page, but wish it to be there at all other times. How can this be accomplished? There's no way I see to set an excluded page for menu item links.

Answer 1

Here is one method, and I must confess it may not be the absolute best. This method works for a menu that is not inside a block.

In your page.tpl.php use the following snippet:

if (drupal_is_front_page()) {
  foreach ($primary_links as $key => $value) {
    if (in_array('Home', $value)) {
      unset($primary_links[$key]);
    }
  }
}

The snippet will hide the element that contains the value 'Home' in the 'title' attribute.

Place that snippet before this chunk of code (so that $primary_links is modified before it is printed out):

<?php if (isset($primary_links)) : ?>
   <?php print theme('links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'links primary-links')) ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Answer 2

You could also do it with CSS. Get the class for the front page - which might be something like .page-front - and the class for the menu item - which might be something like .main-menu ul li.first - and hide it.

So your CSS would look sort of like this -

.page-front .main-menu ul li.first {visibility:hidden;width:0px}

That'll blank out that one menu item and move the rest over seamlessly.

Answer 3

I ended up putting the home link in a separate menu/block, then set that block to not display on the page.