Is there a way to include content in the home page layout?

[mrmanc]

Description

I’d like to be able to include content from the body of the page when using the home page layout. This way I can have an introductory paragraph above a list of recent posts.

It looks like this could be achieved by including {{content}} in the layout, just above the <h3…>…</h3> line.

Environment

• Ruby gem or remote theme version: 4.12.0
• Jekyll version: 3.7.3
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• GitHub Pages hosted (if yes provide URL to site):

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Expected behavior

The text from the content of the page should be included above the ‘Recent Posts’ heading.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Create a page with the following contents.

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layout: home
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Here is some text to go in the introductory paragraph.

[mmistakes]

Yes, that's how you'd do it.
You could also try and use the archive layout which has the {{ content }} tag placed in the appropriate location.

The home layout is very similar to it, just simplified to omit some things.

[mrmanc]

Thanks for the response. I am keen to retain the list of recent posts, so the archive layout doesn’t seem appropriate.

I realise from your response that it sounded like I was asking how to achieve this result myself; I was actually wondering if there was a reason that the home layout distributed in the theme doesn’t already include content from the body of the page.

It seems a little unintuitive to a newcomer, so I wondered whether I was missing some alternative way of achieving the same effect without creating a new layout.

[mmistakes]

No obvious reason why {{ content }} isn't in the home layout. Just a miss on my part.

Happy to look at a pull request if you want to add it.

[mrmanc]

Fab, that’s what I was hoping to hear 😃I’ve raised a pull request.