Getting front page blocks to show on redirected front page Here's what I did


I have working content pages I like
I want to have the latest of these display as the front page of my site
When that node displays as the front page, I'd like a few additional blocks to display.    This was easy to solve by configuring the blocks to only show on &lt;front&gt;
I built a view to show the latest page, creating a "node page" display, with "single node" as the style (from Top Node module). I sort by Node: post date. I give it the path "latest"
I set "latest" as the front page of my site.
The front page now goes to the latest node, but the front page only blocks do not display. When I check the source, the body tag does have class "front", but the blocks aren't showing. I tried setting the block configuration to show on page "latest", but that didn't work either.


How do I get the blocks to show? I don't want to build an all new front page using views because I have some programatic things in my template.
My problem appeared to be with the Top Node module. Apparently, the views display it introduces redirects in a way that causes the &lt;front&gt; tag not to work as it should. The answer is actually quite simple, and honestly makes the Top Node module seem a bit redundant. Although it's not intuitive to me, under "Row Style" on views, you can specify full node content, which, as the name implies, renders node results as they would appear if you typed in the URL directly. I simply made a view that returned one result, Row Style set to full node, and then created a page display at the URL "latest". Problem solved.