cribbed pagination from quinnanya.github.io with some amendments for working with Minimal Mistakes, and to disable first and last where appropriate

src/_includes/layouts/pagination.njk

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{% if paginationNextUrl or paginationPrevUrl %}
+  <hr />
+  <div class="inner-wrapper">
+    <footer class="[ pagination ] [ pad-bottom-900 ]">
+      <nav class="[ pagination__nav ] [ box-flex space-between align-center ]">
+        {% if paginationPrevUrl %}
+          <a href="{{ paginationPrevUrl }}" class="{{ paginationLinkTokens }}" data-direction="backwards">
+            <span>{{ paginationPrevText if paginationPrevText else 'Previous' }}</span>
+            {% include "icons/arrow.svg" %}
+          </a>
+        {% endif %}
+        {% if paginationNextUrl %}
+          <a href="{{ paginationNextUrl }}" class="{{ paginationLinkTokens }}" data-direction="forwards">
+            <span>{{ paginationNextText if paginationNextText else 'Next' }}</span>
+            {% include "icons/arrow.svg" %}
+          </a>
+        {% endif %}
+      </nav>
+    </footer>
+  </div>
+{% endif %}

src/index.html

@@ -1,5 +1,48 @@
 ---
-layout: home
+layout: archive
-author_profile: true
+permalink: "{% if pagination.pageNumber>0 %}page-{{ pagination.pageNumber | plus: 1 }}{% endif %}/index.html"
+pagination:
+  data: collections.posts
+  size: 7
 ---
 
+{%- for post in pagination.items -%}
+<h2><a href="{% post_url collections.posts, post.fileSlug %}">{{ post.data.title }}</a></h2>
+<em>{{ post.data.date | toUTCString}}</em>
+<p>{{ post.templateContent | description }} <a href="{% post_url collections.posts, post.fileSlug %}"><em>read more</em></a></p>
+{%- endfor -%}
+
+
+<ul class="pagination">
+    <li>
+        {% if pagination.href.first and pagination.href.previous %}
+            <a href="{{ pagination.href.first }}" class="pagination">First</a>
+        {% else %}
+            <a href="#" class="pagination disabled">{{ "First" }}</a>
+        {% endif %}
+    <li>
+        {% if pagination.href.previous %}
+            <a href="{{ pagination.href.previous }}" class="pagination">Previous</a>
+        {% else %}
+            <a href="#" class="pagination disabled">{{ ui-text[site.locale].pagination_previous | default: "Previous" }}</a>
+        {% endif %}
+    </li>
+
+    <li>
+    <a href="#" class="pagination current">Page {{ pagination.pageNumber | plus: 1 }}</a>
+    </li>
+
+    <li>{% if pagination.href.next %}
+            <a href="{{ pagination.href.next }}" class="pagination">Next</a>
+        {% else %}
+            <a href="#" class="pagination disabled">{{ ui-text[site.locale].pagination_next | default: "Next" }}</a>
+        {% endif %}
+    </li>
+    <li>
+        {% if pagination.href.first and pagination.href.next %}
+            <a href="{{ pagination.href.last }}" class="pagination">Last</a>
+        {% else %}
+            <a href="#" class="pagination disabled">{{ "Last" }}</a>
+        {% endif %}
+    </li>
+</ul>