Displaying the latest post on the front page

options -> reading: show at most … posts?

Or if you want your theme to ignore setting in admin menu, use custom, advanced loop
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Advanced_Use

That advanced stuff looks a bit, um, advanced?

The reading: show at most didn’t occur to me, but I guess that would do the job correctly.

Thanks (again)

I am not sure from reading the problem as described that a plugin is necessary.
But that loop stuff is bad ??

I’d get the custom_posts_per_page plugin so you could just set the front page to one post and the rest to whatever. Hey, root.

You’re correct Root, don’t need the plugin – didn’t occur to me about the number of viewable posts in the admin area! That plugin sounds interesting Alan I might give that a look.

What I did want to do was have the latest post displayed in full, only to have the same post in the recent posts listing.

Thanks as every folks ??