How to create another page with pagination like the 'blog' page ?

[AtivJoshi]

I created a new folder called al-folio/misc and a file misc/index.html, a new folder _extras that contains all the posts that are to be displayed in the misc section and, created a new collection called extras in _config.yml file. The misc/index.html has the following content:

---
layout: default 
title: miscs
nav: true
nav_order: 3
pagination:
  enabled: true
  collection: extras
  permalink: /page/:num/
  per_page: 5
  sort_field: date
  sort_reverse: true
  trail:
    before: 1 # The number of links before the current page
    after: 3  # The number of links after the current page
---
Some text.

<!-- custom liquid code -->

Now, no matter what I put after the front-matter in misc/index.html, the misc page is always built according to the blog/index.html (i.e. the "Some text" string right after the front-matter is not displayed, instead the heading of blog/index,html is displayed ). Although the articles in the _extras directory are all displayed correctly with pagination, the formatting is just like the "blog" page and I cannot change it. What should I do to customize the misc page? Note that if I remove all the Liquid syntax, then the "Some text" string is displayed and the list of articles with pagination is not displayed.

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[asboyer]

I have the same issue. Seems like pagination is hardcoded for blog.

[george-gca]

Yes it is. If you want to use it in another part of the page, I recommend you check the jekyll-paginate-v2 plugin documentation.

[asboyer]

I took a look, it seems like its an existing problem. The way I would do it is write all the code for each page in the actual blog.md and then choose what code to render based on pagination.collection. For some reason the content from the first page that has pagination gets rendered but the actual data is updated. Very weird behavior, its an issue with jekyll-paginate-v2.