# Issue with pagination

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 6, 2021, 10:16am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864 "2021-04-06T10:16:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![keltia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/keltia/32/482_2.png) [@keltia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keltia)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:16am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/1 "2021-04-06T10:16:07Z")

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Hello, as a starting point for using Zola, I’ve decided to use zola-pickles as my theme, I installed it as written in the README and try to generate the following very basic page:

```auto
+++
title = "1"
paginate_by = 5
sort_by = dare
+++

Contenu.

```

Everytime I try to generate it, I get:

```auto
Building site...                                                                                                        
-> Creating 0 pages (0 orphan), 0 sections, and processing 0 images                                                     
Failed to build the site                                                                                                
Error: Failed to render section '/Users/roberto/Documents/Perso/Sites/zola/content/_index.md'                           
Reason: Failed to render 'index.html'                                                                                   
Reason: Variable `paginator.pages` not found in context while rendering 'index.html'                                    

```

Using 0.13.0 on macOS.

This must be very basic, sorry.

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**Author:** ![Roman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Roman](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Roman)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/2 "2021-04-06T15:53:53Z")

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```auto
sort_by = dare

```

take a look 🙂 should be `sort_by = "date"`

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**Author:** ![keltia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/keltia/32/482_2.png) [@keltia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keltia)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/3 "2021-04-06T16:41:41Z")

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Nope, I made a typo when I wrote the message. The real file has “date”.

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**Author:** ![Roman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Roman](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Roman)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/4 "2021-04-06T16:56:38Z")

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I’ve just cloned zola-pickles, it works without any issue, do you have the same folder’s structure?

 ![изображение](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/1X/5728114ad6fcf3f686aa0d322fb31745c9573425.png)

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**Author:** ![keltia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/keltia/32/482_2.png) [@keltia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keltia)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/5 "2021-04-06T17:10:42Z")

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Just re-created another site with `zola init`, re-cloned `zola-pickles` copied my \_index.md and same error. I have no idea what’s happening. If I remove the theme, it works.

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**Author:** ![keltia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/keltia/32/482_2.png) [@keltia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keltia)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/issue-with-pagination/864/6 "2021-04-06T17:27:50Z")

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And I tried it again with Dinkleberg and it fails with the same error. I’m using zola 0.13.0 from Homebrew, really weird.