blogdown `title` won't display on rendered `_index.html` - r

Question

I created an _index.Rmd file in my blogdown /*/content/ directory and the body of the _index.Rmd file looks like this:
---
title: "Home"
date: "2016-05-05T21:48:51-07:00"
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
Welcome to the home page of this blogdown site.
I would expect to see a "Home" title heading but nothing appears. I presume this is an intentional design choice. I can understand why, but in my case I want the title that I specify in the YAML to showup on the rendered _index.html file. How do I achieve this goal?

Answer 1

This is because the index (main) page has special treatment with this theme. How you can change this is go to themes/(yourtheme)/layouts/index.html. It would look something like:
{{ partial "header.html" . }}
<main class="content">
<div class="list">
{{ range (.Paginate ((where .Data.Pages "Type" "post").GroupByDate "2006")).PageGroups }}
<h2 class="list-title">{{ .Key }}</h2>
{{ range .Pages }}
{{ partial "list-item.html" . }}
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
</div>
{{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
</main>
{{ partial "footer.html" . }}
Now you can edit this file to add the desired title in many ways, for example if you want the same style as a post title would have you could add between the <main class="content"> and <div class="list>:
<h1 class="article-title">Home</h1>
If you want to source the title from the .Rmd file, you would do:
<h1 class="article-title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
Now after rebuilding the site the title will appear on the homepage.