diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index e29dc807b..f2f003d5f 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -130,3 +130,11 @@ typography: {
   ...
 }
 ```
+
+## Home Page
+
+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.
+
+A differnet method is used to configure the comment box on the home page, see [[Comments#Conditionally display comments|conditionally display comments]].
diff --git a/quartz.config.ts b/quartz.config.ts
index f54060908..4bb07e16f 100644
--- a/quartz.config.ts
+++ b/quartz.config.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ const config: QuartzConfig = {
       Plugin.AliasRedirects(),
       Plugin.ComponentResources(),
       Plugin.ContentPage(),
+      Plugin.HomePage(),
       Plugin.FolderPage(),
       Plugin.TagPage(),
       Plugin.ContentIndex({
diff --git a/quartz.layout.ts b/quartz.layout.ts
index 1c601a2b6..d9917511b 100644
--- a/quartz.layout.ts
+++ b/quartz.layout.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { PageLayout, SharedLayout } from "./quartz/cfg"
+import { PageLayout, SharedLayout, HomePageLayout } from "./quartz/cfg"
 import * as Component from "./quartz/components"
 
 // components shared across all pages
@@ -62,3 +62,16 @@ export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
   ],
   right: [],
 }
+
+// components for the home page
+export const defaultHomePageLayout: HomePageLayout = {
+  ...sharedPageComponents,
+  ...defaultContentPageLayout,
+  // head:  Component.Head(),
+  // header: [],
+  // left: [],
+  // beforeBody: [],
+  // afterBody: [],
+  // right: [],
+  // footer: Component.Footer(),
+}
diff --git a/quartz/cfg.ts b/quartz/cfg.ts
index 1c98b9363..d60e0bc14 100644
--- a/quartz/cfg.ts
+++ b/quartz/cfg.ts
@@ -91,3 +91,7 @@ export interface FullPageLayout {
 
 export type PageLayout = Pick<FullPageLayout, "beforeBody" | "left" | "right">
 export type SharedLayout = Pick<FullPageLayout, "head" | "header" | "footer" | "afterBody">
+export type HomePageLayout = Pick<
+  FullPageLayout,
+  "beforeBody" | "left" | "right" | "head" | "header" | "footer" | "afterBody"
+>
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
index f83393054..4801f1604 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentPage.tsx
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ export const ContentPage: QuartzEmitterPlugin<Partial<FullPageLayout>> = (userOp
         const slug = file.data.slug!
         if (slug === "index") {
           containsIndex = true
+          continue
         }
 
         if (file.data.slug?.endsWith("/index")) {
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/homePage.tsx b/quartz/plugins/emitters/homePage.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c086c9129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/homePage.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import path from "path"
+import { visit } from "unist-util-visit"
+import { Root } from "hast"
+import { VFile } from "vfile"
+import { QuartzEmitterPlugin } from "../types"
+import { QuartzComponentProps } from "../../components/types"
+import HeaderConstructor from "../../components/Header"
+import BodyConstructor from "../../components/Body"
+import { pageResources, renderPage } from "../../components/renderPage"
+import { FullPageLayout } from "../../cfg"
+import { Argv } from "../../util/ctx"
+import { FilePath, isRelativeURL, joinSegments, pathToRoot } from "../../util/path"
+import { defaultHomePageLayout, sharedPageComponents } from "../../../quartz.layout"
+import { Content } from "../../components"
+import chalk from "chalk"
+import { write } from "./helpers"
+import DepGraph from "../../depgraph"
+
+// get all the dependencies for the markdown file
+// eg. images, scripts, stylesheets, transclusions
+const parseDependencies = (argv: Argv, hast: Root, file: VFile): string[] => {
+  const dependencies: string[] = []
+
+  visit(hast, "element", (elem): void => {
+    let ref: string | null = null
+
+    if (
+      ["script", "img", "audio", "video", "source", "iframe"].includes(elem.tagName) &&
+      elem?.properties?.src
+    ) {
+      ref = elem.properties.src.toString()
+    } else if (["a", "link"].includes(elem.tagName) && elem?.properties?.href) {
+      // transclusions will create a tags with relative hrefs
+      ref = elem.properties.href.toString()
+    }
+
+    // if it is a relative url, its a local file and we need to add
+    // it to the dependency graph. otherwise, ignore
+    if (ref === null || !isRelativeURL(ref)) {
+      return
+    }
+
+    let fp = path.join(file.data.filePath!, path.relative(argv.directory, ref)).replace(/\\/g, "/")
+    // markdown files have the .md extension stripped in hrefs, add it back here
+    if (!fp.split("/").pop()?.includes(".")) {
+      fp += ".md"
+    }
+    dependencies.push(fp)
+  })
+
+  return dependencies
+}
+
+export const HomePage: QuartzEmitterPlugin<Partial<FullPageLayout>> = (userOpts) => {
+  const opts: FullPageLayout = {
+    ...defaultHomePageLayout,
+    pageBody: Content(),
+    ...userOpts,
+  }
+
+  const { head: Head, header, beforeBody, pageBody, afterBody, left, right, footer: Footer } = opts
+  const Header = HeaderConstructor()
+  const Body = BodyConstructor()
+
+  return {
+    name: "HomePage",
+    getQuartzComponents() {
+      return [
+        Head,
+        Header,
+        Body,
+        ...header,
+        ...beforeBody,
+        pageBody,
+        ...afterBody,
+        ...left,
+        ...right,
+        Footer,
+      ]
+    },
+    async getDependencyGraph(ctx, content, _resources) {
+      const graph = new DepGraph<FilePath>()
+
+      for (const [tree, file] of content) {
+        const sourcePath = file.data.filePath!
+        const slug = file.data.slug!
+        graph.addEdge(sourcePath, joinSegments(ctx.argv.output, slug + ".html") as FilePath)
+
+        parseDependencies(ctx.argv, tree as Root, file).forEach((dep) => {
+          graph.addEdge(dep as FilePath, sourcePath)
+        })
+      }
+
+      return graph
+    },
+    async *emit(ctx, content, resources) {
+      const cfg = ctx.cfg.configuration
+      const allFiles = content.map((c) => c[1].data)
+
+      for (const [tree, file] of content) {
+        const slug = file.data.slug!
+        if (slug !== "index") {
+          continue
+        }
+
+        const externalResources = pageResources(pathToRoot(slug), file.data, resources)
+        const componentData: QuartzComponentProps = {
+          ctx,
+          fileData: file.data,
+          externalResources,
+          cfg,
+          children: [],
+          tree,
+          allFiles,
+        }
+
+        const content = renderPage(cfg, slug, componentData, opts, externalResources)
+        yield write({
+          ctx,
+          content,
+          slug,
+          ext: ".html",
+        })
+      }
+    },
+  }
+}
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/index.ts b/quartz/plugins/emitters/index.ts
index 842ffb083..6700448f5 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/emitters/index.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 export { ContentPage } from "./contentPage"
+export { HomePage } from "./homePage"
 export { TagPage } from "./tagPage"
 export { FolderPage } from "./folderPage"
 export { ContentIndex as ContentIndex } from "./contentIndex"