Single Post as front page – possible?

I your settings > reading > show at most: 1

I know, but as i said:

I know I could configure WordPress to show only one post, but I want to have the single-post-template with comments instead of the “overview”-template

No way to make this possible?

create a template from one of the standard blog pages and set it to have only one post or use thisd as a starting place and configure as needed

1)change events to something like home or firstpage etc

2)where it says cat=11, change it to p=the id of the post you want to show,
3)save it as someTemplate.php
4)write/create a page and set the default template, option is on right hand side about half way down, to be the template name you gave it in step 1
5)set your home page under options; select static page and point it to the page you created in step 4

<?php
/*
Template Name: Events
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<?php
$query= ‘cat=11’; // concatenate the query
query_posts($query); // run the query
$more = 0;
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php require(‘post.php’); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php posts_nav_link(”,”,’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php posts_nav_link(”,’Next Entries »’,”) ?></div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”><?php _e(“Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”); ?></p>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

see also
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

Thank you very much – query_posts did the trick!