Let me see if I can explain things, because the word 'home' is used a couple ways in wordpress.
Most people think of the 'home' page as being the page that you go to when you type in 'http://mydomain.com' - another terms for this are 'landing' page and 'front' page.
Wordpress, by default, displays your posts on the landing/front/home page (the 'posts' page) and this page is automatically generated. This page does not have a 'title' (I'll talk about this a bit more)
In WordPress you can create pages and give them a 'title' of anything you want (except for the default landing/front/home page - there is no 'title' for it)
Let's assume we create a page called 'Contact Us' and one called 'News'. You now have three (3) pages (what...but we only created two??) right, YOU created two pages, but WordPress automatically creates your 'posts' page for you, so that makes three.
Ok, so much for the background, now we start to get messy
Atahualpa gives you the option to create a menubar and it will add in all your pages automatically (unless you exclude some, but let's not worry about that). So when you display your page you would see the menu containing
HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News
so where did the 'Home' link in the menu come from? It came from the option 'ato->Page menu->Home link in Page Menu Bar' which defaults to 'Home'. If we changed that option to 'JuggleDad' then the menu would be
HTML Code:
JuggleDad Contact Us News
and if you clicked 'JuggleDad' you would go back to the landing/front/home page which would be your 'posts' page...currently. Lets change it back to 'Home' so the menu is
HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News
Now lets look at another WordPress option. If you go to dashboard->Settings->Reading you will see an option 'Front page displays'.
With this option, you can set a static page to be your front page. You also have to setup a page to display your posts. So in our example, lets point the 'Front page:' at 'Contact Us' and the 'Posts page: at 'News' so now your menu bar looks like this
HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News
Oh look, it didn't change except that when you click on either 'Home' or 'Contact Us' you go to the 'Contact Us' page. (when you click on 'News' you go to your 'posts' page)
But we change our mind and decide to change the title 'Contact Us' to 'Home' and now the menu shows
HTML Code:
Home Home News
Notice there are two 'Home' links. One is the title of the page 'Home' and the other is from the 'ato->Page menu->Home link in Page Menu Bar' option. If you were to blank out that option you would have
Now lets make it even more messy because you want to use the WordPress custom menus.
Ok, you go create a menu and add the two pages 'Home' and 'News' and everything works fine and your menu is still
but you decide to change the WordPress option 'dashboard->Settings->Reading->Front page displays' back to 'Your latest posts'. Now your menu is still
but when you click 'Home' you see your contact info. But why you ask ("Why??" with a little anguish in your voice). It's because WordPress is now automatically creating the 'posts' page and we created a page and called it 'Home'. So let's fix this up.
You go back into the page that is now called 'Home' and change it to 'Contact Us' and now the menu shows
HTML Code:
Contact Us News
and the contact us page shows the contact info and the 'News' page is blank (it doesn't show the posts because we just told WordPress to stop displaying them there) so how to get a Home link in the menu. The Atahualpa option doesn't help because you are using a Custom menu. This means it is your job to manually add a link.
If you go to dashboard->Appearances->Menus, there is a section called 'Custom Links'. You can put your site address in the URL ('http://mdomain.com' in our example) and put 'Home' in the LABEL and press the 'Add to Menu' button, re-order it's position and you now have
HTML Code:
Home Contact Us News
as your menu.
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I hope this helps clear up what can be a confusing mix of options and settings and you now know how to do what you want to do.
Oh yeah, if you use %pages or %page-center, then the order of the menu items
IF you are using the WordPress Custom menu, is the order you arrange them. If you are using the Atahualpa menu then the order is based on the order specified by the 'ato->Page Menu->Sorting order of Page Menu Bar' option
If you use %page-right the display order is reversed - so if you need to change the order in the WordPress Custom menu or change the pae menu order (dashboard->page->edit->Order)