title: Create custom home page with Jekyll
body: <p>I would like to create a custom "home" page using Jekyll's standard theme "Minima". By default it is set to a list of recent blog posts:</p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  layout: default
  ---
  
  &lt;div class="home"&gt;
  
    &lt;h1 class="page-heading"&gt;Posts&lt;/h1&gt;
  
    {{ content }}
  
    &lt;ul class="post-list"&gt;
      {% for post in site.posts %}
        &lt;li&gt;
          &lt;span class="post-meta"&gt;{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}&lt;/span&gt;
  
          &lt;h2&gt;
            &lt;a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url | relative_url }}"&gt;{{ post.title | escape }}&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/h2&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
      {% endfor %}
    &lt;/ul&gt;
  
    &lt;p class="rss-subscribe"&gt;subscribe &lt;a href="{{ "/feed.xml" | relative_url }}"&gt;via RSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This setup is controlled in a file <code>_layouts/home.html</code>. I have created my custom "home" page using Markdown. It is saved in my local directory and called "aboutme.md":</p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  layout: page
  title: About Me
  permalink: /aboutme/
  order: 1
  ---
  
  This is a custom about me page.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to override the default list of recent posts and replace it with my custom "aboutme" page. How can I achieve this in an elegant way? One way is to rewrite the "aboutme.md" in HTML and save it into "home.hml". However, it is doubling the work. I'm sure there must be a way to "include" an "aboutme.md" page in "home.html" with a simple Liquid command. I would also like to have the "About me" page displayed in the site menu.</p>