Change 'Home' on menu bar

[LandyVlad]

Is there any way to change the word 'Home' on the LHS of the Menu Bar to, say, 'News' AND have a different icon for it?

Anyone have any examples of same?

(I'd like to do this for my drone forum as it's a more relevant description of what I plan on using the front page for)

[Bigguy]

You should be able to change the name in the index.english.php file I would think and search for the main_icons home image if there is one and rename a new image with that name and upload and overwrite the old image. (I think)

[Bigguy]

main_icons_sprite.png is the name of the image that has the home icon. You will need a way to put a new image in that sprite in order to change it.

[LandyVlad]

Ah well I have bugger all idea how to do that !

[Bigguy]

Maybe @lesmond  will be able to help with that. All it really takes is a new image and a graphics program. Erase one and put the other in it's place.

[LandyVlad]

You make it SOUND easy.... but I'll bet it isn't.

[LandyVlad]

Maybe this sort of image but as the word hoem will be changed to News, probably don't need the word news on the icon.  Would make it clearer too.

[lesmond]

To change the "home" menu name
find in /Themes/default/languages/index.english.php

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$txt['home'] = 'Home';
Change too

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$txt['home'] = 'News';
Then replace the attached image, in /Themes/Drone/images/icons/main_icons_sprite.png

This is how it will look..
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I have added a second image for you to try..
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[LandyVlad]

They look good.  Shame the 2nd one isn't the colour of the first one.  Ah well can't have everything

Thanks for the info !

[LandyVlad]

To change the "home" menu name
find in /Themes/default/languages/index.english.php

Code Select Expand

$txt['home'] = 'Home';
Change too

Code Select Expand

$txt['home'] = 'News';

OK well here's a follow up question before I do that...

This is what's in that file

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$txt['message_index'] = 'Message Index';
$txt['news'] = 'News';
$txt['home'] = 'Home';
$txt['page'] = 'Page';
$txt['prev'] = 'Previous page';
$txt['next'] = 'Next page';

You'll notice that before the 'home' there's already a 'news'
I didn;t put it there.

What's that for / refer too. What gives? (shrugs)

I just had a thought. That'd be the OTHER type of news (eg news fader etc) ?

[lesmond]

I saw the other $txt['news'] = 'News'; not sure what that ones for, maybe the news fader for the top?

They look good.  Shame the 2nd one isn't the colour of the first one

I just found some copyright free icons to use, and the first one is the newspaper image you posted above.

[LandyVlad]

with the sprites - choosing the second one. When I look at it above I can see it right.
But when I download it to my computer I get:
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and if I upload that to the server and refresh I still get the original home symnbol.

edit: Umm it looks right when reposted here too! Just not on my computer.  Odd. Totally weirdness

[lesmond]

Try clearing your cache and it will show, did for me

[LandyVlad]

as in Shift F5? No go.

Google chrome settings - clear cache? No go.

Like I say - weirdness.

Anyway I'm off to bed, its 11pm here.... ! Cheers mate.

[SychO]

You should know that there is a much easier way of changing the icon of a menu item
just by adding this to any menu item in Subs.php, and the image should be uploaded to /images of the current or default theme

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'icon' => 'yourfile.png',