Home templates

The home template is the only required template for building a site and therefore useful when bootstrapping a new site and template. It is also the only required template if you are developing a single-page website.

Home template lookup order

See Template Lookup.

Add content and front matter to the home page

The home page accepts content and front matter from an _index.md file. This file should live at the root of your content folder (i.e., content/_index.md). You can then add body copy and metadata to your home page the way you would any other content file.

See the home template below or Content Organization for more information on the role of _index.md in adding content and front matter to list pages.

Example home template

{{ define "main" }}
  <main aria-role="main">
    <header class="home-page-header">
      <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
      {{ with .Params.subtitle }}
        <span class="subtitle">{{ . }}</span>
      {{ end }}
    </header>
    <div class="home-page-content">
      <!-- Note that the content for index.html, as a sort of list page, will pull from content/_index.md -->
      {{ .Content }}
    </div>
    <div>
      {{ range first 10 .Site.RegularPages }}
        {{ .Render "summary" }}
      {{ end }}
    </div>
  </main>
{{ end }}