Homepage template / queries

Question

I might be over-engineering this a bit, but I'm looking for a clean way to set up my homepage, for as few database queries and maintaining a DRY setup. The homepage is:

• Hero introduction
  • Fields in a homepage single.
• News & Events
  • Simple blog-like query

And then the two parts I'm confused about. Both of these are pulled from other singles.

• About Us summary
• Membership info

Is it fine to just query these pages individually? It feels so over the top to do something like

{% set aboutQuery = craft.entries().section('about') %}
{% set aboutPage = aboutQuery.all() %}
{% for page in aboutPage %}
  <h1>{{ page.title }}</h2>
  <p>{{ page.summary }}</p>
{% endfor %}

I'm sure this is a fairly common setup, so I just want to know what other people do in cases like this.

Answer 1

Maybe it feels over the top, cause you could simplify your small request to something like this:

{% for page in craft.entries.section('about').all() %}
<h1>{{ page.title }}</h2>
<p>{{ page.summary }}</p>
{% endfor %}

Or, if you just want to get the title and the summary of that one single - you could archieve this via:

{% set aboutPage = craft.entries.section('about').one() %}
<h1>{{ aboutPage.title }}</h1>
<p>{{ aboutPage.summary }}</p>