Pagination is not working after updating my hugo

[tooraj]

My computer recently crashed and I had to install a new version of Hugo.
On my website under the content folder I have a folder called sections that has 4 files in it:
about.md, blog.md, contact.md, and search.md
Here is my website
as you can see all those 4 sections are 4 links at the bottom of the page.

Now that I have updated my Hugo here is what I see:

I looked at my index.html under layouts and it has these lines:

    <nav>
      <ul>
        {{ range (where .Data.Pages.ByWeight "Section" "sections")  }}
          <li>{{ if isset .Params "link" }}<a href="{{ index .Params "link" }}"{{else}}<a href="#{{ with .File }}{{ .TranslationBaseName }}{{ end }}"{{end}}>{{ if .Param "menuname" }}{{ .Param "menuname" }}{{ else }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}</a></li>
        {{ end }}
      </ul>
    </nav>

also:

  <div id="main">
    {{ range (where .Data.Pages "Section" "sections") }}
      {{ .Render "onepagestyle" }}
    {{ end }}
  </div>

I really appreciate any help on this. Why I am not setting all the four links under sections folder on my main website page?

[davidsneighbour]

We need to see what’s inside the sections folder and the frontmatter of those files to have an opinion. I don’t remember any issue like that before, where a navigation “hops” up one level. Please post a link to your repository.

[tooraj]

@davidsneighbour thanks again for your help, that is very kind of you. Inside the sections folder there are just 4 files as I explained:

here is the about.md frontmatter:

---
title: "About"
---

here is the contact.md frontmatter:

---
title: "Contact"
---

here is the search.md frontmatter:

---
title: "Search"
---

and here is the blog.md frontmatter:

+++
title = "Blog"
weight = 20
draft = false
+++

I appreciate any help on this issue.

[pointyfar]

@tooraj

    {{ range (where .Data.Pages "Section" "sections") }}

You probably need to replace this with something like

    {{ range (where site.RegularPages "Section" "sections") }}

See the differences here: Page variables | Hugo

[tooraj]

@pointyfar thanks so much for your help. After replacing .Data.Pages in both lines of ‘index.html’, now I can see all 4 links
Now the question is, why this code was working before but not working now? Has something changed on the new version of Hugo?
Thanks again, I really appreciate your help it was great.

[pointyfar]

Yes, there were some changes around .Pages around version 0.57 or so: https://gohugo.io/news/0.57.0-relnotes/