# Paginated items not going beyond default

**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/paginated-items-not-going-beyond-default/41711
**Category:** support
**Created:** [December 1, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/paginated-items-not-going-beyond-default/41711 "2022-12-01T14:37:26Z")
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### Author: ![tut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tut](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/tut)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/paginated-items-not-going-beyond-default/41711/3 "2022-12-02T09:19:32Z")

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That’s not the problem. I think I encountered the issue @jmooring described [in this post](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/control-pagination-and-page-collections-from-baseof-html/37643/8) because I am using an iteration of the multipage posts.

Edit: I just found a way around it. I set a higher number of pagination in the configuration file which applies to the custom layout(s). Then I added a limit (using [first](https://gohugo.io/functions/first/)) to the default layout’s pagination sequence with a lower number.

Edit 2: I spoke too early! The `first` command skips posts that are the difference between the number set in the config and the `first` command. So, if `paginate` in config is 15 and `first` is 10, it skips 5 posts per page!

Edit 3: I followed the base layout in the example in Joe’s link. I split my header file code above into various conditions, then assigned the pagination integer for each.

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