Resolved pagination and formatting issues in Hugo

📅 2025-03-13 — Session: Resolved pagination and formatting issues in Hugo

🕒 03:00–03:45
🏷️ Labels: Hugo, Pagination, Error-Fix, Web Development
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to resolve various formatting and pagination issues in a Hugo project, focusing on improving the display and sorting of pagination elements.

Key Activities

• Addressed printf formatting issues in pagination.html using safeHTMLAttr and safeURL to handle HTML contexts properly.
• Fixed context mismatch errors in Hugo’s pagination.html partial by correcting the use of the {{with}} statement.
• Implemented pagination with leading zeros for numerical sorting and display in a Hugo site.
• Enhanced pagination logic to ensure correct numerical sorting by extracting numeric parts from titles and formatting them with leading zeros.
• Improved error handling in pagination code to preserve non-numeric titles unchanged.
• Updated pagination code to ensure consistent sorting order by sorting pages based on extracted numeric titles.

Achievements

• Successfully fixed formatting issues and context mismatches in Hugo’s pagination.
• Implemented a robust solution for numerical sorting and display of pagination elements.
• Enhanced error handling and formatting consistency across pagination components.

Pending Tasks

• Review the updated pagination logic in different scenarios to ensure comprehensive error handling and display consistency.