Add pagination to Jekyll site

I have been using Jekyll to write my blog for quite sometime. The “so-simple-theme” takes care of all the layout and today, I try to add pagination to my site since I have enough entries now.

There are 3 things I need to do in enabling the page navigation bar

Include the following section in _config.yml

# Pagination - https://jekyllrb.com/docs/pagination/
paginate: 10
paginate_path: /page:num/

plugins:
  - jekyll-paginate

Include the pagination gem in Gemfile

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
  gem "jekyll-paginate"
end

If you are using index.md for your layout, rename it to index.html with the following content

---
layout: home
excerpt: "Brain dump of an engineer with fading memory."
show_excerpts: true
paginate: true
entries_layout: list
---

The most important part would be the variable paginate: true. Rebuild the site and a nice navigation bar should be shown at the bottom of the page.

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