Had a go at converting a mostly static but dynamically rendered site to use Jekyll yesterday, it was a lot more straight forward than I thought it was going to be.
As part of the conversion I needed to display the first post differently, after consulting the all knowing Google I settled on the following method;
Jekyll Snippets 1/4
Getting just the latest post;
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{% for post in site.posts offset: 0 limit: 1 %}
Also, if you don’t know what Jekyll is then have a look at the website or dive straight in with the following simple install guide above.
I will keep the Gist updated as I do more stuff.