Does pagination support skipping/offsetting?

[AleksandrHovhannisyan]

I'm working on migrating my Jekyll site to 11ty and am so far pleased with how pagination is built into the framework! Very cool that you can reuse pagination in front matter for permalinks.

I have a unique need: I want /blog/ to show the 20 most recent posts and to be treated as Page 1 implicitly—i.e., I don't want its permalink to be /blog/page/1/ because that's a bit ugly for sharing. When you navigate to Page 2, I want the URL to update to /blog/page/2/.

So far, I've gotten very close to achieving this with the following directory structure:

src/_pages
├── _pages.json
├── blog
│   ├── index.html
│   └── page
│       └── index.html

The root blog index does this:

---
title: Blog
layout: blog
permalink: /blog/
---

{%- comment -%}First 20 posts on /blog/{%- endcomment -%}
{%- assign posts = collections.post | limit: 20 -%}
{% for post in posts  %}
  <li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.date | date: '%b %d, %Y' }} - {{ post.data.title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

And the nested page index is paginated like so:

---
title: Blog (Page {{ pagination.pageNumber }})
layout: blog
permalink: "/blog/page/{{ pagination.pageNumber | plus: 1 }}/"
pagination:
  data: collections.post
  size: 20
  alias: posts
---

{% for post in posts %}
  <li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.date | date: '%b %d, %Y' }} - {{ post.data.title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

Now, I'm also hoping to get rid of the duplicate /blog/page/1/ since that's already taken care of by the root /blog/ page.

Is there any way I can tell the paginator to skip the first page?

[pdehaan]

I think https://www.11ty.dev/docs/pagination/#remapping-with-permalinks might have some pointers.

[AleksandrHovhannisyan]

Oh, that's awesome! I was actually reading that, but I missed the bit about being able to use conditionals in front matter.

Jekyll never let me do that, so this is really neat!