# New HUGO user - Question regarding Console Theme Blog Layout

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811>\
**Category:** Using Themes\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811 "2021-03-17T19:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bernds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Bernds](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Bernds)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811/1 "2021-03-17T19:25:52Z")

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Hi there

I’ve been playing around with HUGO for the past several hours, got it installed and running fine locally with the [Console](https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-console/) theme

I’m just trying to set up a small personal blog - Much like Wordpress shows a blog post list, I want to do the same with HUGO and the Console theme.

From the demo of Console, the author shows a blog post list, dated, post title and an excerpt in the section titled “Latest posts”

I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how to recreate that myself? The documentation of the theme is very light and I am having a hard time figuring it out.

I have followed the HUGO documentation on creating pages, section and posts but none of these have resulted in being listed on Console.

Please forgive my lack of experience, learning as I go.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811/2 "2021-03-17T19:34:31Z")

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Hello,

[This the relevant part of the homepage template](https://github.com/mrmierzejewski/hugo-theme-console/blob/master/layouts/index.html#L13-L14) that renders the post list.

You also need to have a look at the following chapters of the Hugo documentation:

> **[Lists of Content in Hugo](https://gohugo.io/templates/lists/)**
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> Lists have a specific meaning and usage in Hugo when it comes to rendering your site homepage, section page, taxonomy list, or taxonomy terms list.

> **[Page Variables](https://gohugo.io/variables/page/#readout)**
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> Page-level variables are defined in a content file's front matter, derived from the content's file location, or extracted from the content body itself.

> **[.GetPage](https://gohugo.io/functions/getpage/#readout)**
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> Gets a \`Page\` of a given \`path\`.

> **[where](https://gohugo.io/functions/where/#mainsections)**
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> Filters an array to only the elements containing a matching value for a given field.

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**Author:** ![Bernds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Bernds](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Bernds)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811/3 "2021-03-17T19:39:58Z")

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Thank you very much for the prompt response @alexandros

I’ll give those a read, seeing that snippet highlighted helps me understand it a bit better.

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-hugo-user-question-regarding-console-theme-blog-layout/31811/4 "2021-03-19T19:40:11Z")

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