Hugo supports pagination for the home page, sections and taxonomies. It's built to be easy use, but with loads of flexibility when needed. The real power shines when you combine it with [`where`](/templates/functions/), with its SQL-like operators, `first` and others --- you can even [order the content](/templates/list/) the way you've become used to with Hugo.
Setting `Paginate` to a positive value will split the list pages for the home page, sections and taxonomies into chunks of that size. But note that the generation of the pagination pages for sections, taxonomies and home page is *lazy* --- the pages will not be created if not referenced by a `.Paginator` (see below).
**A `.Paginator` is provided to help building a pager menu. This is only relevant for the templates for the home page and the list pages (sections and taxonomies).**
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 a sub-set of the pages with the available template functions and ordering options, and pass the slice to `.Paginate`, e.g. `{{ range (.Paginate ( first 50 .Data.Pages.ByTitle )).Pages }}`.
**Note:** If you use any filters or ordering functions to create your `.Paginator`**and** you want the navigation buttons to be shown before the page listing, you must create the `.Paginator` before it's used:
