What about pagination?

[poesieland]

@McShelby Hello, it seems that your theme does not implement a pagination layout?

Just lurking around https://gohugo.io/templates/pagination/#paginate

Wondering whether I can only activate pagination for a single section page, not for all.

Indeed, I have a top-level page with almost 30 child pages and would like to paginate child pages by 10.

[McShelby]

I must admit I am not the pro at pagination and how use or support it. Interestingly, today I stumbled over some inspiration

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/pagination-using-pager-values-within-the-head-element/50340

Just thinking out loud:

Pagination makes only sense for list or list-like pages.
All taxonomy and term pages could be handled from a single configuration - no need to make it complicated.
List pages are a different beast. I think, the best would be to incooperate pagination support into the children shortcode.

How would you expect - from a user perspective - pagination to be used in your Markdown file and configured in the theme?

[postb99]

I agree, at first glance pagination would be useful for a page that lists its numerous children. I like the idea of passing pager size to children shortcode.

I also wonder how this affects main menu. In this case there would be links to pages but with a configurable title, and it would be different from every child page own title.

Maybe we could look for the proposal of some existing Hugo themes, to see the user experience.

[McShelby]

I also wonder how this affects main menu

I would expect it to be not affected at all.

You still can have differing titles in the menu by using Hugo's build-in linkTitle.

Maybe we could look for the proposal of some existing Hugo themes, to see the user experience.

Or throw AI onto this for a kickstart.