Splash as initial page?

[etorres07]

This is not a bug or an issue, but more a question specific to this theme:

How do I set the splash as the landing or main page?

This is my first experience with a Jekyll theme and I'm relatively new to the web development world. I forked this repo and started creating my website from there, tweaking the _config.yml and other pages as I saw necessary.

To try and solve my "issue", I tried modifying the index.html, such as changing the "layout" and "redirect_from:" to splash and /splash/ respectively (although the index.html suggests to edit the theme's home layout instead, there is no such home layout). I also tried modifying the layouts, switching the names of default.html to splash.html and vice versa. Lastly, I tried modifying the _config.yml baseurl and url. Nothing seems to produce the result I'm looking for.

Help??

Thanks in advance.

Edit (December 17th, 2018): also tried commenting out the splash.md title and changing the permalink to / . This seems to "work" or at least it shows the splash as the main landing page. However, after this I can never access the blog page. It seems that the issue lies on the pagination plugin which apparently needs an index.html and breaks the blog page when I add a permalink for the blog.md.