build.coffee

.use collections
    posts:
      pattern: 'posts/**.html'
      sortBy: 'date'
      reverse: true

.use branch('posts/**.html').use(
      permalinks(pattern: 'writings/:title', relative: false)
    )

.use branch('!posts/**.html').use branch('!index.md').use permalinks
    relative: false

.use pagination
    'collections.posts':
    path: 'writings/page/:num/index.html'
    perPage: 1
    template: 'posts.html'
    first: 'posts.html'
      pageMetadata:
        page: 'posts'

posts.html

<main role="main">

    {{#each pagination.files}}

    <article role="article">
      <header>
        <time datetime="{{toISODate date}}" pubdate>{{ niceDate date 'MMMM D, YYYY'}}</time>
        <h1><a href="/{{path}}">{{title}}</a></h1>
      </header>

      <div class="post-text">
        {{{excerpt}}}

        <p class="read-more">
          <a href="/{{path}}">Read more…</a>
        </p>
      </div>
    </article>

    {{/each}}

    <footer>
      {{pagination.num}} - {{pagination.pages.length}}
    </footer>


</main>

writings.md

title	template	page
Writings	posts.html	posts