How to show the latest post as the homepage?

[mmistakes]

See this thread for ideas

Question about site.posts values

Oh and even simpler are first and last. Use dot notation and you can access the entire object. In your case {{ site.posts.first.title }} and {{ site.posts.last.title }} will get the title of the first and last posts. You can replace title with any variable available in the post’s YAML Front Matter… date, content, excerpt, etc.

You can access the first of last post of the site.posts object. You can then make a modified layout or just put all the logic in your home index page.

Depending on what sort of content you want to display this will vary. But at its most basic level this would output the latest post’s title and body content… without looping… which is good for your build time.

<h1>{{ site.posts.last.title }}</h1>
{{ site.posts.last.content }}