How do I remove or limit the post list on the homepage

[zayuim]

The homepage of an xmin Hugo site contains a list of all posts under all pages. I have some old posts that I don't want to display on the homepage, I was wondering if it was possible to...

1. Limit what pages it includes posts from? (e.g. only include posts from "posts" and exclude "notes".)
2. Limit how long the list is? (probably the easiest?)
3. Remove it altogether?

I would want this to only affect the homepage's list and not to touch the pages own lists.

Thanks! :)

[leerichardson]

I am also looking to figure this out!

[yihui]

Sorry, I don't have time to answer your specific questions, but this theme has been explained line-by-line in the blogdown book: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/templates.html

[leerichardson]

Here's small hack to get rid of it completely (option 3 in @zayuim original list)

• create a file layouts/_default/list.html that comments out the loop, if you're on the home page:

{{ partial "header.html" . }}

{{if not .IsHome }}
<h1>{{ .Title | markdownify }}</h1>
{{ end }}

{{ .Content }}

{{if not .IsHome }}
<ul>
  {{ range (where .Data.Pages "Section" "!=" "") }}
  <li>
    <span class="date">{{ .Date.Format "2006/01/02" }}</span>
    <a href="{{ .URL }}">{{ .Title | markdownify }}</a>
  </li>
  {{ end }}
</ul>
{{ end }}

{{ partial "footer.html" . }}

One thing I don't understand: How does Hugo decide which template to use, for each page? For example, how did Hugo decide that the first page would use the list.html template?

[hongtaoh]

To remove the list from the homepage, in hugo-xmin/layouts/_default/list.html , try :

<ul>
  {{ $pages := .Pages }}
  {{ if .IsHome }}{{ $pages = .Site.RegularPages }}{{ end }}
  {{ if not .IsHome}}  <!-- add this line -->
  {{ range (where $pages "Section" "!=" "") }}
  <li>
    <span class="date">{{ .Date.Format "2006/01/02" }}</span>
    <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title | markdownify }}</a>
  </li>
  {{ end }}
  {{ end }} <!-- add this line -->
</ul> 

[zayuim]

@hongtaoh Thanks, I'll close the thread now.