Use a static webpage in Jekyll as the homepage

Question

I have created a website using Jekyll with the default theme minima. The homepage of this website shows the blog posts.

I would like to show a static page, like about.md, as the homepage and move the blog posts to a link such as website.com/blog/.

Answer 1

Since you're using Minima as your site's theme, what you're looking for can be easily achieved.

Step 1: Add a new folder named blog at the root of your website.

Step 2: Create an index.md page with the home layout, inside this blog directory.

---
# This file is at `./blog/index.md`

layout: home
title: Morteza's Blog
---

Step 3: Change your original ./index.md file to use the page layout.

---
# This file is at `./index.md`

layout: page
title: Landing Page
---

NOTE: If you don't want to maintain a blog directory just to house a single index.md file, you can create a file called blog.md and set it use the home layout and render into blog/index.html

---
# This file is at `./blog.md`

layout: home
title: Morteza's Blog
permalink: /blog/
---