Pagination

The real power of Hugo pagination shines when combined with the where function and its SQL-like operators: first, last, and after. You can even order the content the way you’ve become used to with Hugo.

Configure pagination

Pagination can be configured in your site configuration:

paginate

default = 10. This setting can be overridden within the template.

paginatePath

default = page. Allows you to set a different path for your pagination pages.

Setting paginate to a positive value will split the list pages for the homepage, sections and taxonomies into chunks of that size. But note that the generation of the pagination pages for sections, taxonomies and homepage is lazy — the pages will not be created if not referenced by a .Paginator (see below).

paginatePath is used to adapt the URL to the pages in the paginator (the default setting will produce URLs on the form /page/1/.

List paginator pages

There are two ways to configure and use a .Paginator:

1. The simplest way is just to call .Paginator.Pages from a template. It will contain the pages for that page.
2. Select another set of pages with the available template functions and ordering options, and pass the slice to .Paginate, e.g.

• {{ range (.Paginate ( first 50 .Pages.ByTitle )).Pages }} or
• {{ range (.Paginate .RegularPagesRecursive).Pages }}.

For a given Page, it’s one of the options above. The .Paginator is static and cannot change once created.

If you call .Paginator or .Paginate multiple times on the same page, you should ensure all the calls are identical. Once either .Paginator or .Paginate is called while generating a page, its result is cached, and any subsequent similar call will reuse the cached result. This means that any such calls which do not match the first one will not behave as written.

(Remember that function arguments are eagerly evaluated, so a call like $paginator := cond x .Paginator (.Paginate .RegularPagesRecursive) is an example of what you should not do. Use if/else instead to ensure exactly one evaluation.)

The global page size setting (Paginate) can be overridden by providing a positive integer as the last argument. The examples below will give five items per page:

• {{ range (.Paginator 5).Pages }}
• {{ $paginator := .Paginate (where .Pages "Type" "posts") 5 }}

It is also possible to use the GroupBy functions in combination with pagination:

{{ range (.Paginate (.Pages.GroupByDate "2006")).PageGroups }}

Build the navigation

The easiest way to add this to your pages is to include the embedded template:

{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}

The following example shows how to create .Paginator before its used:

{{ $paginator := .Paginate (where .Pages "Type" "posts") }}
{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
{{ range $paginator.Pages }}
  {{ .Title }}
{{ end }}

Without the where filter, the above example is even simpler:

{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
{{ range .Paginator.Pages }}
  {{ .Title }}
{{ end }}

If you want to build custom navigation, you can do so using the .Paginator object, which includes the following properties:

PageNumber

The current page’s number in the pager sequence

URL

The relative URL to the current pager

Pages

The pages in the current pager

NumberOfElements

The number of elements on this page

HasPrev

Whether there are page(s) before the current

Prev

The pager for the previous page

HasNext

Whether there are page(s) after the current

Next

The pager for the next page

First

The pager for the first page

Last

The pager for the last page

Pagers

A list of pagers that can be used to build a pagination menu

PageSize

Size of each pager

TotalPages

The number of pages in the paginator

TotalNumberOfElements

The number of elements on all pages in this paginator

Additional information

The pages are built on the following form (BLANK means no value):

[SECTION/TAXONOMY/BLANK]/index.html
[SECTION/TAXONOMY/BLANK]/page/1/index.html => redirect to  [SECTION/TAXONOMY/BLANK]/index.html
[SECTION/TAXONOMY/BLANK]/page/2/index.html
....