The home page will only display posts in your current edition. The navbar sections however will display the most recently published posts of that category.
You can control the layout of the home page by altering the order of posts. To do this please go to the posts section of the admin here.
Then filter the posts by the editon you want to control.
Once the posts have been filtered you can drag and drop posts with the arrows at the left of the column.
To order the posts simply click quick edit on a post and set the order to the number that corresponds to the placement of the post on the template below.
If a row is missing an item in this example there were 39 posts in the edition then the final column would be 3 posts long and span the full width
Any amount of posts can be in an edition. The sections will not display if here is not a post to correspond with it.
Sections Ordering
Section posts will default to most recently published first.
To alter the posts order go to the re-order posts section.
Then from the tabs at the top of the page select the section you wish to update.
Then drag the posts into the desired order and click update at the bottom. Tip: You can click the drid or list option on the top right to change the layout of the list.
Below are templates for each section to show the placement corresponding to the order