Adding Pagination

I don’t remember exactly why I removed the pagination for this site but with the increase of blogs posts I felt that I needed to add it back.

After trying and failing to get the standard jekyll-paginate to work I went ahead and setup jekyll-paginate-v2. This was easier than some had implied and look now there are multiple pages on this here blog.

This was on the todo list so I updated that as well.

First you must install the gem.

gem install jekyll-paginate-v2

Then make sure to update _config.yml. Obviously you don’t need all of these settings but this is what I’m using currently.

plugins:
  - jekyll-paginate-v2

pagination:
  enabled: true
  per_page: 5
  permalink: '/blog/page/:num/'
  title: ':title - page :num'
  limit: 0
  sort_field: 'date'
  sort_reverse: true

One thing that did trip me up is I needed to set two permalinks, one for the page itself and another within the pagination.

---
layout: page
title: blog
permalink: /blog/
pagination:
  enabled: true
  permalink: /blog/page/:num/
---

From here I added some padding to the pagination and centered it to make sure it was easy to see.