I am trying to override the main index.html the one that base URL uses. I tried creating content/index.md when I do these other pages don’t render and the menu generated by the Hugo doesn’t show in the index.html If I remove index.md and replace it with _index.md it workes fine but then as per the …

@RickCogley – His theme does have {{ .Content }} in layouts/index.html, see below: akshaybabloo/akshaybabloo/blob/b69ea64b9b7c8999f6adf97225f9a0af1f971e15/themes/bnc/layouts/index.html#L34 <p class="uk-text-justify uk-margin-left uk-margin-right"> {{.Site.Params.intro}} </p>…

What do you mean by “override”?

adding contents to layouts/index.html via lets say content/index.md

Your theme has a index.html file but, there’s no reference to {{ .Content }}, which is needed to pull content from the body of a markdown file. akshaybabloo/akshaybabloo/blob/master/themes/bnc/layouts/index.html <!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> {{- partial "head.html" . -}} </he…

I tried that, you mean by creating /content/_index.md and use {{ .Content }} in /layouts/index.html [akshaybabloo] temp update by akshaybabloo on 04:42AM - 20 Sep 18 UTC changed 2 files with 17 additions and 0 deletions. It’s not work…

@RickCogley – Well, scratch that, we’re both right. Looks like @akshaybabloo added it in after your comment: [akshaybabloo] temp update by akshaybabloo on 04:42AM - 20 Sep 18 UTC changed 2 files with 17 additions and 0 deletions.

Since the themes are in git repos that can easily get overwritten, I would recommend doing the override thing I mentioned above, over editing the theme directly. Of course, you can always copy the theme’s files in, instead of doing a git clone.

How to override main index.html

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akshaybabloo September 20, 2018, 4:36am 4

Also, according to Static Index w/ Separate /blog? layouts/index.html should take contents from content/_index.md that’s not happening for me.

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How to override main index.html

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