Showing Full Blog Content

Hi,
I’m trying to create a home page for a blog that shows the full content of each blog post rather than an excerpt. I edited post-description.php for the classic blog template and replaced

<?php 
if ( has_excerpt() ) echo get_the_excerpt();
else
{
	echo wp_trim_words ( strip_shortcodes ( get_the_content() ) , hb_options('hb_blog_excerpt_length') , '...' );
}
?>

with
<?php the_content(); ?>

This shows the full content instead of an excerpt, but ends up creating an infinite loop of the only blog post I have on the site (and usually crashing Chrome). It repeats the sidebar too, so the whole page seems to be repeating on a loop.

The strange thing is, if I set the Reading Setting “Front Page Displays:” at “Your Latest Posts” it will pick up the above change and display the full post. This isn’t usable, however, as I can’t edit the page, set a featured image, etc.

Thanks,
Matt