Randomized pagination

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How do I cause the pages in my paginator to be randomized? I know there’s a shuffle function, but I’m having trouble getting this to work:

{{ range .Paginator.Pages | shuffle }}
       {{ .Render "li" }}
{{ end }}

Full source is here: https://github.com/ccnmtl/digitaltibet/blob/master/layouts/index.html

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2

Try:

{{ range (.Paginate (.Pages | shuffle)).Pages }}
3

That gives me this error:

ERROR: 2016/08/03 14:50:23 general.go:212: Error while rendering homepage: template: index.html:6:33: executing “index.html” at <.Pages>: Pages is not a field of struct type *hugolib.Node

4

{{ range (.Paginate (.Data.Pages | shuffle)).Pages }}

5

Thanks, but this gives the error:

ERROR: 2016/08/03 15:07:58 general.go:212: Error while rendering homepage: template: index.html:6:22: executing “index.html” at <.Paginate>: error calling Paginate: invoked multiple times with different arguments

6

You can only have one paginator per node (it is a static site), so you must make sure that there is no previous calls to .Paginate or .Paginator in the template chain for that node.

7

I see the commit where you added this error here:
https://github.com/spf13/hugo/commit/bec4bdae992841f011239dac8c685e13470a90f3

But haven’t found any more info on this error. I’m going to try removing this error just to see what happens, out of curiosity.

8

That sounds fishy. See my comment above. A static site cannot have two different files on the same location on disk.

9

I do have a call to .Paginate in layouts/_default/list.html, but this error still occurs when I remove that call.

I don’t completely understand this error, but removing that code does allow the pages to be randomized each time I build the site. I was hoping them to be randomized each time the user refreshes the page, but this works until I figure out something better.

10

I suggest you read a little in the documentation and about Hugo – and understand the concept of static sites.