Navigate to Structure | Views (/admin/structure/views). Scroll down to the Frontpage view. This is one of the views that comes with Drupal. We could modify it, but it is a good practice to leave the original unchanged and, instead, make a duplicate to modify, which is what we'll do here:

1. From the drop-down in its row, select Duplicate.
2. In the View name text box that then appears, change the name to Frontpage - Custom and click Duplicate.
3. On the View configuration page, we will change the number of items that the view displays. It is currently configured to show 10 items and a pager, but we will change it to show only one. Click Full and select This page (override) from the drop-down. Select the setting for Display a specified number of items, and click Apply (this display).
4. In the Pager options dialog, change the Items per page to 1, click Apply, and then click Save.
5. Return to the views list at /admin/structure/views. If you look at the list, you will see that the original Frontpage and our Frontpage - Custom both have the same path.

6. The path needs to be /node for technical reasons, but we cannot have two views responding to the same path. Therefore, in the row for the original Frontpage, select Disable from the drop-down.
7. This change will ensure that only the most recent piece of content. Let's edit our new view so that we can add an additional display to it. The current display is for the home page, but we also want a display that provides a block of title links for additional content.
8. On its configuration page, click the +Add button in the Displays panel, and select Block.