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@zonca this is great! Thanks for sharing! I'll get around to this soon

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Had a read to the docs linked, and wanted to have a stab at this after I finished with #49 but I cannot find where the post list is built in the index page. In other words: index.md contains only a bit of content, but when the site is actually built a list of posts is added. I think I am looking for the "home" layout, but I cannot find it

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I have tried for a bit, but the answer is that apparently it is not possible, or not in an easy way. There are two main issues:

1. Although this minima layout has been pushed to master, for some reason it's not being picked up (we might be using a different theme or a different version, I don't know). This is not a major deal, and it can be solved with a custom layout, although it is a bit hacky

2. The paginator requires the index to be index.html rather than index.md (I am guessing so that it can duplicate it several time depending on how many pages are needed. This does not seem easily solvable to me unless we are willing to break the basic assumptions of fastpage.

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Indeed looks like pagination is built in to the currenty version of minima, however, they haven't cut a release yet so its not available for people installing via Gem.

I'm not adventurous enough to copy their files etc. Perhaps we look at the upcoming 3.0 release and see what has changed ( or actually wait until 3.1 )

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Perhaps. Should we label this issue as "waiting" or something?

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I’ll keep it open for a bit :)

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I made pagination working following jekyll/minima#150 (comment)

1. Added gem 'jekyll-paginate' to Gemfile

2. added to _config.yml:

gems:
  - jekyll-paginate

paginate: 10
paginate_path: /page:num/

3. I had an empty index.md so just renamed it, I guess people with some content should turn it into html.

    mv index.md index.html
   

See at: https://zonca.dev/

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One issue with using the paginate plugin is that you have to convert index.md to index.html, and it becomes much harder to write content this way. Any ideas on how to make things easier to let people write content on their home page?

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@hamelsmu What if in the build action fastpages adds a script which converts index.md to index.html before it is processed by Jekyll?

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No that wouldn't work in this case. And there isn't a way to ship markdown inside HTML, either. the best way is to try to find a way to port pagination to markdown via {% includes %} or something like that or by extending _layout/home.html

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what if you strip the front matter, do the conversion using pandoc or some other tool, and join back the front matter?

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@zonca don't want to hack it like that seems like it would not be very maintainable.

I'm thinking to just put a link to your instructions in the documentation instead?

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Sure

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