How to remove archived posts from pagination in Jekyll?

Question

I've built a Jekyll blog that includes a post archive. I developed the archive using the jekyll-archives plugin. I'm happy with the website and the archive pages are working fine. The problem is that archived posts are also shown on the current website, which is built with jekyll-paginate .

I don't want archived posts to be shown on the current website because archived posts should be "archived" and only be accessible through the archive pages. Suppose I have posts from 2020 until 2022. I want 2021 and 2020 posts to be archived and appear on the archive pages only whilst the current paginated website lists 2022 posts only. How do I achieve this effect?

My jekyll-archives configuration in _config.yml file:

jekyll-archives:
  enabled: all
  layout: archive
  permalinks: 
    year: '/blogs/archives/:year/'
  title: 'Archived :year'

My archive template code:

<h1>Archive of posts from {{ page.date | date: "%Y" }}</h1>

<ul class="posts">
{% for post in page.posts %}
  <li>
    <span class="post-date">{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}</span>
    <a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url | relative_url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
  </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

Answer 1

I found a workaround to the problem. To remove the archived posts from the current website ( /blogs/ ), I first set the permalink value to the directory in which I want to keep the archived posts. For instance, /blogs/archives/:year/:title/ . Then I ran the jekyll-archives plugin to archive the markdown-based posts. All posts are saved in _posts folder like a standard Jekyll blog. After that I copied all the generated HTML pages from the _site folder to the site's archive directory as defined above, removed all the markdown source files of the archived posts from _posts and set the permalink value back to the current website /blogs/ . When I re-ran bundle exec jekyll serve , the archived posts remain accessible at where they should be whilst being removed from the current website. If there's a more Jekyllist (smarter) solution, I'd love to know!