Is there a way to specify the content that should be shown on the home page?

[sethforprivacy]

It seems at-present that the home page selects the content to be displayed based on the most recently created post, and then only displays content from that category.

For example, I have three categories, Posts, Guides, and Opt Out Podcast -- I would like to default to showing "Posts" on the home page, but every time I release an episode of the podcast or post a new guide, it defaults to showing only episodes or only guides.

Is there a way to change that behavior in config.yaml, or will I need to edit the theme somehow for that?

You can see an example of how other themes handle this here:

https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal/blob/master/exampleSite/config.toml#L7

In Terminal, you can specify the category of post to "pin" to the home page via contentTypeName.

[sethforprivacy]

Nevermind, I've found the solution by digging through the theme source files!

Users can specify the category of content they want shown on the home page by adding the following under params: in config.yml:

mainSections: posts

Replace posts with the proper subdirectory under content/ of the content you want displayed on the home page.