---
title: Paginator
description: Paginates the collection of regular pages received in context. 
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
  related:
    - methods/page/Paginate
  returnType: page.Pager
  signatures: [PAGE.Paginator]
---

[Pagination] is the process of splitting a list page into two or more pagers, where each pager contains a subset of the page collection and navigation links to other pagers. The number of elements on each pager is determined by the value of the `paginate` setting in your site configuration. The default value is `10`.

You can invoke pagination on the home page template, [`section`] templates, [`taxonomy`] templates, and [`term`] templates. Each of these receive a collection of regular pages in [context]. When you invoke the `Paginator` method, it paginates the page collection received in context.

{{< code file=layouts/_default/list.html >}}
{{ range .Paginator.Pages }}
  <h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></h2>
{{ end }}
{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
{{< /code >}}

In the example above, the internal "pagination" template creates the navigation links between pagers.

{{% note %}}
Although simple to invoke, with the `Paginator` method you can neither filter nor sort the page collection. It acts upon the page collection received in context.

The [`Paginate`] method is more flexible, and strongly recommended.

[`paginate`]: /methods/page/paginate/
{{% /note %}}

{{% note %}}
Please note that the results of pagination are cached. Once you have invoked either the `Paginator` or `Paginate` method, the paginated collection is immutable. Additional invocations of these methods will have no effect.
{{% /note %}}

[context]: /getting-started/glossary/#context
[pagination]: /templates/pagination/
[`section`]: /getting-started/glossary/#section
[`taxonomy`]: /getting-started/glossary/#taxonomy
[`term`]: /getting-started/glossary/#term