Ask for a solution to adding a pagination in Archive

[TonyFPY]

Hi, I wonder how to add pagination in Archive. If there are many posts in Archive, it would be better to add pagination to improve the user experience.

[CaiJimmy]

it would be better to add pagination

As far as I know, Hugo does not support that on an archive page.

.Paginator is provided to help you build a pager menu. This feature is currently only supported on homepage and list pages (i.e., taxonomies and section lists).
Ref: https://gohugo.io/templates/pagination/#list-paginator-pages

[RuthlessRuler]

Hey,

So, https://blog.jeremylikness.com/blog has pagination despite being not a homepage.
it seems possible then?

Also, if you could help me out . So i am trying to create a blog page which will replace the current homepage and homepage will have some info section.

But When I tried it (copied the index.html into _default and renamed to blog.html) it always throws "execute of template failed at <$pag.Pages>: error calling Pages: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference". When I start the server. I have created the appropriate page under content with layout defined to the copied page.

Edit:

After some digging, it seems the theme is at fault. If I set the layout to be "list" for any page, then Hugo doesnt compile the website and gives a similar error regarding pagination.

[CaiJimmy]

So, https://blog.jeremylikness.com/blog has pagination despite being not a homepage.
it seems possible then?

As I said, "This feature is currently only supported on homepage and list pages", and the page you provided is a list page.

<$pag.Pages>: error calling Pages: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference".

.Pages does not exist if it's not the homepage or list page.

If I set the layout to be "list" for any page

That's not something you should do. list.html is used by Hugo to render list pages.

[RuthlessRuler]

Okay thanks for the information. Didn't knew about it as I am pretty new to Hugo.

So what would be the correct approach to set a page as List?