Enhanced Pagination with Zero-Padding in Hugo

📅 2025-03-13 — Session: Enhanced Pagination with Zero-Padding in Hugo

🕒 02:40–03:25
🏷️ Labels: Hugo, Pagination, Programming, Web Development, Error Handling
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to implement and enhance pagination in a Hugo site by ensuring numerical sorting with leading zeros, improving both functionality and user experience.

Key Activities

• Corrected numerical sorting for notebook links by formatting numbers with leading zeros.
• Fixed number formatting issues in Hugo templates by converting extracted numbers to integers.
• Modified pagination logic to ensure pages are sorted numerically with zero-padding.
• Addressed initialization of pagination variables and ensured correct display of zero-padded numbers.
• Implemented zero-padding for pagination titles dynamically in Hugo.
• Fixed printf formatting issues in pagination.html using safeHTMLAttr and safeURL.
• Resolved context mismatch errors in Hugo’s pagination partials.
• Developed a robust solution for extracting and formatting numeric parts from titles with error handling.

Achievements

• Successfully implemented zero-padded pagination in Hugo, ensuring correct numerical sorting and display.
• Enhanced error handling and formatting robustness for pagination titles.

Pending Tasks

• Review and test the pagination implementation on different Hugo sites to ensure consistency and reliability across various contexts.