Latest writing
The recent-posts band. It renders on every homepage with no setup at all, and a page tagged
A two-column list of your recent posts. This is the one band that is there from the moment you activate the theme, because a homepage with none of your writing on it is a broken first impression.
So the page below is not how you switch the band on. It is how you take control of it.
What you get without doing anything
Your most recent posts, newest first, under a plain heading, at the bottom of whatever else your homepage holds. How many appear is set by Home latest count in Homepage settings: four, six or eight.
Create the page to customise it
#home-latestGo to Pages → New page.
Title it whatever the band should say, for example Latest writing or Recent essays.
Add an excerpt and a line of body copy if you want them.
Under Tags, add #home-latest.
Publish, and set the publish date to put the band where you want it in the stack.
Editor: the Latest writing band - Editor
The Latest writing band
Three things change once the page exists:
- The heading and the copy come from the page instead of the theme.
- The position follows the page's publish date, like every other band, instead of always sitting last.
- The selection can be narrowed to one subject.
What each field becomes
| Field | On the page |
|---|---|
| Title | The heading |
| Excerpt | One larger line under it |
| Body | An optional short paragraph under that |
| The page's primary tag | Narrows the list to that tag |
Listing one subject only
Add a public tag to the page and the band lists only posts carrying that tag. That makes a second, focused list possible: publish two pages, tag one #home-latest with Essays and give the other its own subject, and each band shows its own stream.
Episodes and films are never in this list
Posts tagged #podcast or #video are deliberately excluded. They are posts, but they are not writing, and they arrive in a card built for essays. Both have their own bands: Podcast band and Video band.
Where the "All articles" link goes
The band ends with an All articles link. With the routes file installed it points at /articles/. Without it, it points at your homepage, because that is where page one of your post list lives. Nothing to configure either way.
It hides itself on an empty site
With no published posts, the band does not render. It appears with your first post.
Topic tiles
The start-anywhere band. Quiet builds picture tiles from the public tags on one page, using each tag's own name, description, image and post count.
Signup band
An email signup band on the homepage, with the heading, copy and fine print written on one page. It hides itself from members and from sites with memberships switched off.