diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d5105d..442d9e8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
 ## todo
 
 * titleize slugs
-* limit number of posts on home page
 
 * treesitter highlighting for moonscript
 * penlight library
diff --git a/blog.html b/blog.html
index 97ae205..230e60e 100644
--- a/blog.html
+++ b/blog.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <h2>Posts</h2>
 
 <!-- render posts -->
-$render{"posts"}
+$list_posts
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index f5c0bed..28590cb 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $render{"templates/wares"}
 <h2>Posts</h2>
 
 <!-- render posts -->
-$render{"posts"}
+$(list_posts(5))
 
 <h4 style="text-align: center;">
   <a href="$root/posts">View more posts</a>
diff --git a/posts.moon b/posts.moon
deleted file mode 100644
index 2305e3e..0000000
--- a/posts.moon
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-date = require "date"
-path = require "sitegen.path"
--- import slugify from "sitegen.common"
-common = require "sitegen.common"
-
-rootname = (str) ->
-  result = string.gsub str, "%..+", ""
-  result
-
-extract_id = (source) -> string.match path.filename(source), "%a[%w%-]+"
-extract_date = (source) -> string.match path.filename(source), "%d+%-%d%d%-%d%d"
-format_date = (str) -> date(str)\fmt "%b %d, %Y"
-publish_date = (path) -> format_date extract_date path
-
-pages = site\query_pages { is_a: "post" }
-table.sort pages, (a, b) -> a.source > b.source
-
-html ->
-  [tag["section"] {
-    tag["h3"] {
-      tag["a"] {
-        href: p.meta.target .. ".html",
-        p.meta.title or p.meta.id
-      }
-    }
-
-    tag["time"] { publish_date p.source }
-    { "—", if p.meta.blurb then text p.meta.blurb }
-
-    tag["a"] {
-      class: "read-post-link",
-      href: p.meta.target .. ".html",
-      "Read post →"
-    }
-  } for _, p in ipairs pages]
diff --git a/site.moon b/site.moon
index 8f07a78..f724c26 100644
--- a/site.moon
+++ b/site.moon
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ sitegen = require "sitegen"
 tools = require "sitegen.tools"
 site = require "sitegen.site"
 path = require "sitegen.path"
+html = require "sitegen.html"
 -- import slugify from "sitegen.common"
 
 lfs = require "lfs"
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ date = require "date"
 -- Change output dir to what Openresty prefers
 site.config.out_dir = "html/"
 
--- Deactivate "pygments" plugin
+-- Deactivate "pygments" plugin because it conflicts with pandoc highlighting
 site.default_plugins = for v in *site.default_plugins
   if v\find "pygments" then continue else v
 
@@ -43,16 +44,31 @@ sitegen.create =>
   @app_name = "stasis"
   @version = "0.2.12"
 
-  add "index.html"
+  @list_posts = (page, limit) ->
+    posts = page.site\query_pages { is_a: "post" }
+    table.sort posts, (a, b) -> a.source > b.source
+
+    html.build ->
+      [section {
+        h3 { a { href: meta.target .. ".html", meta.title or meta.id }}
+        time { publish_date source }
+        { "—", if meta.blurb then text meta.blurb }
+        a { class: "read-post-link", href: meta.target .. ".html",
+          "Read post →"
+        }
+      } for { meta: meta, source: source } in *posts[1, limit or #posts]]
+
   add "blog.html", target: "posts/index", template: "blog"
 
   add path, target: out, template: "post", is_a: "post", post: {
     publish_date: publish_date(path)
   }, id: extract_id(path) for path, out in pairs posts "docs"
 
-  -- replace yaml headers with moonscript headers
+  add "index.html"
+
+  -- replace post markdown yaml headers with moonscript headers
   filter "docs", (body) =>
-    body\gsub "^%s*%-%-%-.-%.%.%.", (yaml_header) ->
+    body\gsub "^%-%-%-.-%.%.%.", (yaml_header) ->
       moonscript_header = yaml_header\gsub "%-%-%-", "{"
       result = moonscript_header\gsub "%.%.%.", "}"
       result