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---
title: Homepage Template
linktitle: Homepage Template
description: The homepage of a website is often formatted differently than the other pages. For this reason, Hugo makes it easy for you to define your new site's homepage as a unique template.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [templates]
keywords: [homepage]
menu:
docs:
parent: "templates"
weight: 30
weight: 30
sections_weight: 30
draft: false
aliases: [/layout/homepage/,/templates/homepage-template/]
toc: true
---
Homepage is a `Page` and therefore has all the [page variables][pagevars] and [site variables][sitevars] available for use.
{{% note "The Only Required Template" %}}
The homepage template is the *only* required template for building a site and therefore useful when bootstrapping a new site and template. It is also the only required template if you are developing a single-page website.
{{% /note %}}
{{< youtube ut1xtRZ1QOA >}}
## Homepage Template Lookup Order
The [lookup order][lookup] for the homepage template is as follows:
1. `/layouts/index.html`
2. `/layouts/_default/list.html`
3. `/themes/<THEME>/layouts/index.html`
4. `/themes/<THEME>/layouts/_default/list.html`
## Add Content and Front Matter to the Homepage
The homepage, similar to other [list pages in Hugo][lists], accepts content and front matter from an `_index.md` file. This file should live at the root of your `content` folder (i.e., `content/_index.md`). You can then add body copy and metadata to your homepage the way you would any other content file.
See the homepage template below or [Content Organization][contentorg] for more information on the role of `_index.md` in adding content and front matter to list pages.
## `.Data.Pages` on the Homepage
In addition to the standard [page variables][pagevars], the homepage template has access to *all* site content via `.Data.Pages`.
## Example Homepage Template
The following is an example of a homepage template that uses [partial][partials], [base][] templates, and a content file at `content/_index.md` to populate the `{{.Title}}` and `{{Content}}` [page variables][pagevars].
{{< code file="layouts/index.html" download="index.html" >}}
{{ define "main" }}
<main aria-role="main">
<header class="homepage-header">
<h1>{{.Title}}</h1>
{{ with .Params.subtitle }}
<span class="subtitle">{{.}}</span>
{{ end }}
</header>
<div class="homepage-content">
<!-- Note that the content for index.html, as a sort of list page, will pull from content/_index.md -->
{{.Content}}
</div>
<div>
<!-- Note that .Data.Pages is the equivalent of .Site.Pages on the homepage template. -->
{{ range first 10 .Data.Pages }}
{{ .Render "summary"}}
{{ end }}
</div>
</main>
{{ end }}
{{< /code >}}
[base]: /templates/base/
[contentorg]: /content-management/organization/
[lists]: /templates/lists/
[lookup]: /templates/lookup-order/
[pagevars]: /variables/page/
[partials]: /templates/partials/
[sitevars]: /variables/site/