How do I remove or limit the post list on the homepage about hugo-xmin

[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> 

[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?

[leerichardson]

I am also looking to figure this out!

[zayuim]

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