# Pagination needed for post or topic section

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 9, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921 "2023-11-09T10:01:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Hitesh\_Sharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hitesh_sharma/32/309992_2.png) [@Hitesh\_Sharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hitesh_Sharma)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921/1 "2023-11-09T10:01:51Z")

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Hi all

I have 500000 posts and topics so it is difficult to see old posts in the discourse

Any possibility of doing pagination on that ??

- I RND on pagination in discourse but couldn’t find anything to do pagination in discourse

I found only one article that shows pagination with custom code in frontend

> **[Check for Pagination](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/check-for-pagination/42124/2)**
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> The only way is to call the $paginator in the head and your files in a similar way, using if/else. For a given Page, it’s one of the options above. The .Paginator is static and cannot change once created. If you call .Paginator or .Paginate...

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921/2 "2023-11-09T10:14:44Z")

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It is unlikely that we will introduce pagination for these.

This has cropped up a few times, but it is not something we wish to pursue. You can have a search and read some of the similar topics on it.

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921/3 "2023-11-09T10:27:45Z")

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> [@Hitesh\_Sharma](#):
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> I found only one article

FYI this article is irrelevant to Discourse - that’s about pagination on Hugo.

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921/4 "2023-11-09T10:56:35Z")

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This is an answer, kind of, but trust me — no one will ever browse your old topics using pagination going from page 10222 back to page 34.

Those users will use suggestions, tags and searches.

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pagination-needed-for-post-or-topic-section/284921/9 "2025-01-28T15:46:48Z")

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