--- title: after description: "`after` slices an array to only the items after the Nth item." godocref: date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 lastmod: 2017-02-01 categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" keywords: [iteration] signature: ["after INDEX COLLECTION"] workson: [] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [last,first,seq] deprecated: false aliases: [] --- The following shows `after` being used in conjunction with the [`slice` function][slice]: ``` {{ $data := slice "one" "two" "three" "four" }} {{ range after 2 $data }} {{ . }} {{ end }} → ["three", "four"] ``` ## Example of `after` with `first`: 2nd–4th Most Recent Articles You can use `after` in combination with the [`first` function][] and Hugo's [powerful sorting methods][lists]. Let's assume you have a list page at `example.com/articles`. You have 10 articles, but you want your templating for the [list/section page][] to show only two rows: 1. The top row is titled "Featured" and shows only the most recently published article (i.e. by `publishdate` in the content files' front matter). 2. The second row is titled "Recent Articles" and shows only the 2nd- to 4th-most recently published articles. {{< code file="layouts/section/articles.html" download="articles.html" >}} {{ define "main" }}

Featured Article

{{ range first 1 .Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse }}

{{.Title}}

{{.Description}}

{{ end }}

Recent Articles

{{ range first 3 (after 1 .Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse) }}

{{.Title}}

{{.Description}}

{{ end }}
{{ end }} {{< /code >}} [`first` function]: /functions/first/ [list/section page]: /templates/section-templates/ [lists]: /lists/ [slice]: /functions/slice/