Thank you @angus & @maiki. I appreciate your help very much.
I still cannot get it to work after trying both of @angus’ suggestions, but I appreciate the help, and also the pointer to the views page.
I suspect that something else may be causing an issue, so I am starting from scratch with the Hugo quick start template and theme and hope to be back with a solution, or perhaps more questions, if I may, soon.
To be clear I am an amateur working on converting a blog that is written in an old version of Python & Django to Go & Hugo, and am currently trying to get the homepage working. ¶ From the looks of things I will need to put on a wizard’s cap to get the linked list archive page working, too, and this is what I plan to try first.
When I am not figuring out conditional logic, I am usually drawing, writing, walking, cooking, eating, daydreaming or playing videogames!