diff --git a/build.js b/build.js
index 7d0512aac9172..50fb9f4f13df5 100755
--- a/build.js
+++ b/build.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const markdown = require('metalsmith-markdown')
 const prism = require('metalsmith-prism')
 const stylus = require('metalsmith-stylus')
 const permalinks = require('metalsmith-permalinks')
+const paginate = require('metalsmith-paginate')
 const marked = require('marked')
 const path = require('path')
 const fs = require('fs')
@@ -112,6 +113,10 @@ function buildlocale (source, locale) {
         refer: false
       }
     }))
+    .use(paginate({
+      perPage: 15,
+      path: 'blog/page'
+    }))
     .use(markdown(markedOptions))
     .use(prism())
     .use(filterStylusPartials())
@@ -159,7 +164,8 @@ function buildlocale (source, locale) {
         changeloglink: require('./scripts/helpers/changeloglink.js'),
         strftime: require('./scripts/helpers/strftime.js'),
         apidocslink: require('./scripts/helpers/apidocslink.js'),
-        summary: require('./scripts/helpers/summary.js')
+        summary: require('./scripts/helpers/summary.js'),
+        limit: require('./scripts/helpers/limit.js')
       }
     }))
     .destination(path.join(__dirname, 'build', locale))
diff --git a/layouts/blog-index.hbs b/layouts/blog-index.hbs
index 7077a1d25c161..8f4f90448cb63 100644
--- a/layouts/blog-index.hbs
+++ b/layouts/blog-index.hbs
@@ -7,21 +7,31 @@
 
     <div id="main">
         <div class="container">
-
             <ul class="blog-index">
-                {{#each collections.blog}}
+                {{#each (limit collections.blog this.pagination.end this.pagination.start)}}
                     {{#if title}}
                         <li>
                             <time datetime="{{ date }}">{{ strftime date "%d %b %y" }}</time>
-                            <a href="/{{../../site.locale}}/{{ path }}/">{{ title }}</a>
+                            <a href="/{{../site.locale}}/{{ path }}/">{{ title }}</a>
                             <div class="summary">
-                              {{{ summary contents ../../site.locale path }}}
+                              {{{ summary contents ../site.locale path }}}
                             <div>
                         </li>
                     {{/if}}
                 {{/each}}
             </ul>
 
+            {{#if this.pagination}}
+                <nav class="pagination">
+                    {{#if this.pagination.prev}}
+                        <a href="/{{site.locale}}/{{this.pagination.prev.path}}">&lt; Prev</a>
+                    {{/if}}
+
+                    {{#if this.pagination.next}}
+                        <a href="/{{site.locale}}/{{this.pagination.next.path}}">Next &gt;</a>
+                    {{/if}}
+                </nav>
+            {{/if}}
         </div>
     </div>
 
diff --git a/locale/en/blog/index.md b/locale/en/blog/index.md
index b1a0378e971ad..24248de1867d0 100644
--- a/locale/en/blog/index.md
+++ b/locale/en/blog/index.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 ---
 layout: blog-index.hbs
+paginate: blog
 ---
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3d20e8f4a8f9b..39b677ef3479b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "metalsmith-layouts": "1.4.2",
     "metalsmith-markdown": "0.2.1",
     "metalsmith-metadata": "0.0.2",
+    "metalsmith-paginate": "0.3.0",
     "metalsmith-permalinks": "0.4.0",
     "metalsmith-prism": "2.1.1",
     "metalsmith-stylus": "1.0.0",
diff --git a/scripts/helpers/limit.js b/scripts/helpers/limit.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9f48c5bd63512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/helpers/limit.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+'use strict'
+
+module.exports = (collection, limit, start) => {
+  return collection.slice(start, limit + 1)
+}
diff --git a/scripts/helpers/summary.js b/scripts/helpers/summary.js
index 80822e3bdbedb..c1222e72107d8 100644
--- a/scripts/helpers/summary.js
+++ b/scripts/helpers/summary.js
@@ -2,25 +2,46 @@
 
 const cheerio = require('cheerio')
 
-const SUMMARY_LENGHT = 400
+const SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH = 300
+const IGNORE_SELECTORS = ['.blogpost-header', '.anchor', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'blockquote']
+
+/**
+ * Due to the nature of metalsmith and
+ * how the metalsmith-paginate plugin operates,
+ * this helper has to handle two different types of
+ * HTML contents:
+ *  - clean blog posts converted from markdown to HTML,
+ *    seen on the first page of blog posts
+ *  - the remaining paginated pages has gone
+ *    through the handlebars process and therefore has the
+ *    entire page layout (w/<html>, <head> and <body> etc)
+ *    wrapped around the actual blog contents :(
+ */
 
 module.exports = function (contents, locale, path) {
-  let $ = cheerio.load(contents)
+  const $ = cheerio.load(contents)
+  const $body = $('body')
+  const hasBody = $body.length > 0
+  const $elements = hasBody ? $body.find('article > *') : $('*')
 
   let summary = ''
 
-  $('*').each((i, elem) => {
-    if (summary.length > SUMMARY_LENGHT) {
-      summary += `<p><a href='/${locale}/${path}/'>Read more...</a></p>`
-      return false
-    }
-
-    if (elem.parent) {
-      return
-    }
-
-    summary += $.html(elem)
-  })
+  $elements
+    .not((i, elem) => IGNORE_SELECTORS.some((selector) => $(elem).is(selector)))
+    .each((i, elem) => {
+      if (summary.length > SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH) {
+        summary += `<p><a href='/${locale}/${path}/'>Read more...</a></p>`
+        return false
+      }
+
+      // dont re-add nested elements when extracting summary
+      // from blog posts not contained in a complete HTML document
+      if (!hasBody && elem.parent) {
+        return
+      }
+
+      summary += $.html(elem)
+    })
 
   return summary
 }