# How does site.pages populate?

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942 "2017-08-30T20:50:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tamarabartlett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tamarabartlett](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/tamarabartlett)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942/1 "2017-08-30T20:50:21Z")

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Hi! I’m trying to list out all my pages but I can’t seem to figure out where they come from. Many are labeled page3, page4, etc. I don’t see the corresponding files with front matter that is creating them.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![pabloduo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@pabloduo](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/pabloduo)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942/2 "2017-09-01T17:24:55Z")

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Hi there,

With the default configuration Jekyll generates pages (HTML or Markdown files with FrontMatter) from either root folder or folders other than `_posts` folder.

Hope that helps to guide you in the right direction.

It would be great (if you can, of course) share your repository with the actual files to see your folders structure and configuration details. If for some reason you cannot share the actual files/repository - a screenshot of your folder structure and Jekyll configuration would be very handy to answer your questions more precisely.

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**Author:** ![tamarabartlett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tamarabartlett](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/tamarabartlett)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942/3 "2017-09-01T19:44:28Z")

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Sorry I didn’t include this to start; my questions will be better in the future!

My file structure

 ![40 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/1X/196d8b65c7acbd9ba2956bcda1791164ef1780a3.png)

\_config.yml

````auto
title: /#colorbarf
tagline: Get out of the plane
baseurl: ""
paginate: 1

# About/contact
author:
  name: Tamara Bartlett
  url: http://yourhomepage.com 

# Structure
permalink: /:title/

# Gems
gems:
  - jekyll-paginate

# Others
markdown: kramdown```
````

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942/4 "2017-09-01T23:34:10Z")

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they may be the pagination pages. I don’t use paginator but I think that is what those pages are.

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**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-does-site-pages-populate/942/5 "2017-09-02T00:55:12Z")

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Yup, that’s exactly what those folders/files are from. `jekyll-paginate` creates them based on it’s [configured](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/pagination/).