<p>Hi Magnus and welcome to Craft.</p>

<p>Your homepage should ideally be a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/sections-and-entries#section-types">Single</a>. As the Craft site says these are one-off pages that have no special requirements or hierarchy.</p>

<p>You would then create a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/sections-and-entries#section-types">Channel</a> called News (or Blog, whatever you require) and here you would have entries for each news article on your site.</p>

<p>Once you have everything set up, outputting the latest news article on your homepage is a very simple process:</p>

<pre><code>{% set latestNews = craft.entries.section('news').limit(1) %}

{% if latestNews|length %}

    {% for article in latestNews %}
        &lt;p&gt;{{ article.title }}&lt;/p&gt;
    {% endfor %}

{% endif %}
</code></pre>

<p>This code would sit in your <code>index.twig</code> template and grabs the 1st entry in the News section. Simple!</p>

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2015-02-25T14:33:26.730Z
Great! A clear answer that even I understand
Magnus von Bromsen
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I have this same issue, except im trying to pull in a matrix block. :(
Spheriri
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2015-02-25T14:24:48.943Z
Jamie Wade
<p>I have started my very first Craft project (coming from EE) - so, apologies if this is a to simple question.</p>

<p>On the homepage I want to display the latest news entry - and short excerpts from a few older ones. No other type of entries on the page.</p>

<p>Question: Should the section type of the homepage be a "channel" then, or a "single"? Or is there a something completely different way to do this?</p>

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Display news (from a channel) on the Homepage
# Display news (from a channel) on the Homepage

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-25)

I have started my very first Craft project (coming from EE) - so, apologies if this is a to simple question.

On the homepage I want to display the latest news entry - and short excerpts from a few older ones. No other type of entries on the page.

Question: Should the section type of the homepage be a "channel" then, or a "single"? Or is there a something completely different way to do this?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-25. Score: 7 | Accepted answer

Hi Magnus and welcome to Craft.
Your homepage should ideally be a Single. As the Craft site says these are one-off pages that have no special requirements or hierarchy.
You would then create a Channel called News (or Blog, whatever you require) and here you would have entries for each news article on your site.
Once you have everything set up, outputting the latest news article on your homepage is a very simple process:
{% set latestNews = craft.entries.section('news').limit(1) %}

{% if latestNews|length %}

    {% for article in latestNews %}
        {{ article.title }}
    {% endfor %}

{% endif %}

This code would sit in your index.twig template and grabs the 1st entry in the News section. Simple!

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Great! A clear answer that even I understand  
> **username_2**: I have this same issue, except im trying to pull in a matrix block. :(  

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