Remove blog-like recent content from  page Is there a straightforward way to remove the default content, ie recent posts list, from the front page?

I've read about creating my own page and assigning certain blocks to that page and then setting it as the default starting page.. but I've already got my homepage mostly set up and wondered if it would be easy to do it the other way so I don't have to change all my other settings.
Another way is to add the following code in your HOOK_preprocess_page() function in template.php:

if (drupal_is_front_page()) {
  if (isset($variables['page']['content']['system_main'])) {
    unset($variables['page']['content']['system_main']);
  }
}


This causes the default Drupal frontpage node-list in your theme to disappear. This method won't modify your front page title.

You'll probably want configure (admin/config/system/site-information) the Number of posts on front page option to lowest possible value (i.e. 1)  to save some performance too.