In pelican, by default, blog articles are listed on the index.html file.
What I want instead is that I use a static page as my home page and put all the blog articles on a dedicated "Blog" page.
How can I get this done?
While there are several possible methods for achieving your desired goals, I would start with the following changes to your settings file:
SITEURL = '/blog'
OUTPUT_PATH = 'output/blog'
PAGE_URL = '../{slug}.html'
PAGE_SAVE_AS = '../{slug}.html'
DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = False
DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = False
MENUITEMS = [('Home', '/'), ('Blog', '/blog/')]
Put your blog posts in content/ as usual, and then create your home page with the following headers and save as content/pages/home.md:
Title: Home
URL: ../
Save_as: ../index.html
This is the home page.
Caveats:
Dynamic navigation menu generation has been effectively turned off since it doesn't work well with this configuration. Highlighting for the currently-active menu item — a feature you normally get out-of-the-box — will not be present in this configuration and, if desired, must be implemented separately in your theme.
If your theme's base.html template has a link to your site home that depends on SITEURL (e.g., as the notmyidea theme does), you will need to change the link to point to <a href="/"> instead.