# How to paginate a subdirectory?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-to-paginate-a-subdirectory/749 "2021-01-11T15:35:02Z")\
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I stumbled across the same problem: I have a `/content/blog` section also, and want `templates/index.html` to paginate over it. Doing a `get_section(path="blog/_index.md")` doesn’t get you a paginator. It has a property `pages` though, over which you can iterate.

The comment by Zola’s author keats with `transparent = true` in the `_index.md` located in the `blog` section was the most helpful one so far. Now I have a paginator. Everything seems fine. And it actually is.

But, one caveat for me: I had pages like `about.md`, `imprint.md`, etc. under `/content`, which are now also used for the paginator. Implementing some filter logic didn’t work, because of `date` and `sort_by` issues - leaving out some pages in the middle while having a `paginate_by` leads to ugly results.

I ended up with all my pages in its own section: `/content/pages`, which led to a cleaner template implementation.

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