diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index f2f003d5f..6c1fb7d88 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -135,6 +135,6 @@ typography: {
 
 The home page is the main web page of your Quartz. The content for the home page lives in `content/index.md`, to change it see [[authoring content|the authoring content guide]].
 
-To enable easy customization, the `homePage` emitter allows you to fully rearrange the layout of the home page. The default home page layout is called `defaultHomePageLayout{:ts}` and can be found in `quartz.layout.ts`. The layout of the home page and all other content pages is the same by default. See [[layout|the layout documentation]] for further guidance.
+To enable easy customization, Quartz allows you to fully rearrange the layout of the home page. The default home page layout is called `defaultHomePageLayout{:ts}` and can be found in `quartz.layout.ts`. The layout of the home page is the same as all other content pages by default. See [[layout|the layout documentation]] for further guidance on changing the layout.
 
-A differnet method is used to configure the comment box on the home page, see [[Comments#Conditionally display comments|conditionally display comments]].
+A different method is used to configure the comment box on the home page, see [[Comments#Conditionally display comments|conditionally display comments]].
diff --git a/quartz.layout.ts b/quartz.layout.ts
index d9917511b..16618660a 100644
--- a/quartz.layout.ts
+++ b/quartz.layout.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
 export const defaultHomePageLayout: HomePageLayout = {
   ...sharedPageComponents,
   ...defaultContentPageLayout,
-  // head:  Component.Head(),
+  // head: Component.Head(),
   // header: [],
   // left: [],
   // beforeBody: [],
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
index 4801f1604..eb5c6837f 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ import { pageResources, renderPage } from "../../components/renderPage"
 import { FullPageLayout } from "../../cfg"
 import { Argv } from "../../util/ctx"
 import { FilePath, isRelativeURL, joinSegments, pathToRoot } from "../../util/path"
-import { defaultContentPageLayout, sharedPageComponents } from "../../../quartz.layout"
+import {
+  defaultContentPageLayout,
+  sharedPageComponents,
+  defaultHomePageLayout,
+} from "../../../quartz.layout"
 import { Content } from "../../components"
 import chalk from "chalk"
 import { write } from "./helpers"
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ const parseDependencies = (argv: Argv, hast: Root, file: VFile): string[] => {
 }
 
 export const ContentPage: QuartzEmitterPlugin<Partial<FullPageLayout>> = (userOpts) => {
-  const opts: FullPageLayout = {
+  let opts: FullPageLayout = {
     ...sharedPageComponents,
     ...defaultContentPageLayout,
     pageBody: Content(),
@@ -103,7 +107,18 @@ export const ContentPage: QuartzEmitterPlugin<Partial<FullPageLayout>> = (userOp
         const slug = file.data.slug!
         if (slug === "index") {
           containsIndex = true
-          continue
+          opts = {
+            ...defaultHomePageLayout,
+            pageBody: Content(),
+            ...userOpts,
+          }
+        } else {
+          opts = {
+            ...sharedPageComponents,
+            ...defaultContentPageLayout,
+            pageBody: Content(),
+            ...userOpts,
+          }
         }
 
         if (file.data.slug?.endsWith("/index")) {