How to change the homepage in hugo? - hugo

Question

How can I have /posts as homepage?
Should I redirect, change the baseURL in hugo 1config or make changes in
the theme 2config?
Footnotes
1 https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/
2 https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder/wiki/Configurations

Answer 1

You can modify the home.html file, as the index.html file is embedding it and there is nothing else in index.html
https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder/blob/master/layouts/partials/home.html
Make the changes in the above file in theme/layouts/partials/home.html these changes will take effect on the site as soon as you save the file (if you are already running $ hugo server -D)

Answer 2

For me, it helped to add a layouts/index.html file to my theme. Here is its content:
{{ define "main" }}
{{ $pag := .Paginate (where site.RegularPages "Type" "in" site.Params.mainSections ) 6 }}
<div class="archive-body">
{{ range $pag.Pages }}
{{ .Render "li" }}
{{ end }}
</div>
{{ partial "pagination" . }}
{{ end }}
"li" is a partial HTML template, which renders a single page for me.
Then I had to specify mainSections in my config.toml. Since my content is located inside content/post directory, here is the configuration.
[params]
mainSections = ["post"]
Since this is a list, you should be able to add more than one section. For example, if your content is spread let's say between content/post and content/articles and so on. I haven't tried this, though.

Answer 3

I know this is an old question, but the easiest way for me to set a particular markdown page as the landing page was simply to create a layouts/index.html to override my theme's, and put this in it:
<script>window.location = "/mainlist"</script>
This way, I can keep all my theme's styling, not worry about editing templates, and just focus on creating the content. As a newcomer to hugo, this worked quite well as a replacement for Pelican's save_as: index.html.