Hide all posts on the homepage of blog

want to hide the posts completely and only display them when a reader presses on a label/category.

 Template modifications require a Full Template Download first.
From the Navbar > Design > Edit Html.
Click the Download Full Template link and you will have a backup on your computer.

- Then, scroll down past the stylesheet and find:
</head>

- As the last thing before </head> insert a conditional.
 <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
 <style>
 .status-msg-wrap {display:none}
 </style>
 </b:if>

- You should have this:

 <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
 <style>
 .status-msg-wrap {display:none}
 </style>
 </b:if>
</head>

- Preview, Save, View Blog.

That hides the status message on the home page only.