diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/translations.test.ts.snap b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/translations.test.ts.snap
index ecb579574d0b..f2eccf4d82d5 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/translations.test.ts.snap
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/translations.test.ts.snap
@@ -24,24 +24,7 @@ exports[`getContentTranslationFiles returns translation files matching snapshot
 
 exports[`translateContent falls back when translation is incomplete 1`] = `
 {
-  "blogListPaginated": [
-    {
-      "items": [
-        "hello",
-      ],
-      "metadata": {
-        "blogDescription": "Someone's random blog",
-        "blogTitle": "My blog",
-        "nextPage": undefined,
-        "page": 1,
-        "permalink": "/",
-        "postsPerPage": 10,
-        "previousPage": undefined,
-        "totalCount": 1,
-        "totalPages": 1,
-      },
-    },
-  ],
+  "blogDescription": "Someone's random blog",
   "blogPosts": [
     {
       "content": "",
@@ -63,29 +46,13 @@ exports[`translateContent falls back when translation is incomplete 1`] = `
   "blogSidebarTitle": "All my posts",
   "blogTags": {},
   "blogTagsListPath": "/tags",
+  "blogTitle": "My blog",
 }
 `;
 
 exports[`translateContent returns translated loaded 1`] = `
 {
-  "blogListPaginated": [
-    {
-      "items": [
-        "hello",
-      ],
-      "metadata": {
-        "blogDescription": "Someone's random blog (translated)",
-        "blogTitle": "My blog (translated)",
-        "nextPage": undefined,
-        "page": 1,
-        "permalink": "/",
-        "postsPerPage": 10,
-        "previousPage": undefined,
-        "totalCount": 1,
-        "totalPages": 1,
-      },
-    },
-  ],
+  "blogDescription": "Someone's random blog (translated)",
   "blogPosts": [
     {
       "content": "",
@@ -107,5 +74,6 @@ exports[`translateContent returns translated loaded 1`] = `
   "blogSidebarTitle": "All my posts (translated)",
   "blogTags": {},
   "blogTagsListPath": "/tags",
+  "blogTitle": "My blog (translated)",
 }
 `;
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
index 6e4879ce70c3..92a83d57815b 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
@@ -638,10 +638,7 @@ describe('blog plugin', () => {
       },
       DefaultI18N,
     );
-    const {blogPosts, blogTags, blogListPaginated} =
-      (await plugin.loadContent!())!;
-
-    expect(blogListPaginated).toHaveLength(3);
+    const {blogPosts, blogTags} = (await plugin.loadContent!())!;
 
     expect(Object.keys(blogTags)).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(blogTags).toMatchSnapshot();
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/translations.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/translations.test.ts
index 97db9eac8748..2f7663b4d969 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/translations.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/translations.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  */
 
 import {updateTranslationFileMessages} from '@docusaurus/utils';
+import {fromPartial} from '@total-typescript/shoehorn';
 import {getTranslationFiles, translateContent} from '../translations';
 import {DEFAULT_OPTIONS} from '../options';
 import type {
@@ -16,13 +17,13 @@ import type {
 
 const sampleBlogOptions: PluginOptions = {
   ...DEFAULT_OPTIONS,
-  blogSidebarTitle: 'All my posts',
   blogTitle: 'My blog',
   blogDescription: "Someone's random blog",
+  blogSidebarTitle: 'All my posts',
 };
 
 const sampleBlogPosts: BlogPost[] = [
-  {
+  fromPartial({
     id: 'hello',
     metadata: {
       permalink: '/blog/2021/06/19/hello',
@@ -37,27 +38,13 @@ const sampleBlogPosts: BlogPost[] = [
       unlisted: false,
     },
     content: '',
-  },
+  }),
 ];
 
 const sampleBlogContent: BlogContent = {
+  blogTitle: sampleBlogOptions.blogTitle,
+  blogDescription: sampleBlogOptions.blogDescription,
   blogSidebarTitle: sampleBlogOptions.blogSidebarTitle,
-  blogListPaginated: [
-    {
-      items: ['hello'],
-      metadata: {
-        permalink: '/',
-        page: 1,
-        postsPerPage: 10,
-        totalPages: 1,
-        totalCount: 1,
-        previousPage: undefined,
-        nextPage: undefined,
-        blogTitle: sampleBlogOptions.blogTitle,
-        blogDescription: sampleBlogOptions.blogDescription,
-      },
-    },
-  ],
   blogPosts: sampleBlogPosts,
   blogTags: {},
   blogTagsListPath: '/tags',
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
index e19969ab222d..ae76530f8837 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import {
   createAbsoluteFilePathMatcher,
   getContentPathList,
   getDataFilePath,
-  DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID,
   resolveMarkdownLinkPathname,
   getLocaleConfig,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ import {getTagsFilePathsToWatch} from '@docusaurus/utils-validation';
 import {createMDXLoaderItem} from '@docusaurus/mdx-loader';
 import {
   getBlogTags,
-  paginateBlogPosts,
   shouldBeListed,
   applyProcessBlogPosts,
   generateBlogPosts,
@@ -45,7 +43,6 @@ import type {
   Assets,
   BlogTags,
   BlogContent,
-  BlogPaginated,
 } from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog';
 import type {RuleSetRule, RuleSetUseItem} from 'webpack';
 
@@ -85,7 +82,7 @@ export default async function pluginContentBlog(
         })
       : undefined,
   };
-  const pluginId = options.id ?? DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID;
+  const pluginId = options.id;
 
   const pluginDataDirRoot = path.join(generatedFilesDir, PluginName);
   const dataDir = path.join(pluginDataDirRoot, pluginId);
@@ -260,9 +257,10 @@ export default async function pluginContentBlog(
 
       if (!blogPosts.length) {
         return {
+          blogTitle,
+          blogDescription,
           blogSidebarTitle,
           blogPosts: [],
-          blogListPaginated: [],
           blogTags: {},
           blogTagsListPath,
           authorsMap,
@@ -291,15 +289,6 @@ export default async function pluginContentBlog(
         }
       });
 
-      const blogListPaginated: BlogPaginated[] = paginateBlogPosts({
-        blogPosts: listedBlogPosts,
-        blogTitle,
-        blogDescription,
-        postsPerPageOption,
-        basePageUrl: baseBlogUrl,
-        pageBasePath,
-      });
-
       const blogTags: BlogTags = getBlogTags({
         blogPosts,
         postsPerPageOption,
@@ -309,9 +298,10 @@ export default async function pluginContentBlog(
       });
 
       return {
+        blogTitle,
+        blogDescription,
         blogSidebarTitle,
         blogPosts,
-        blogListPaginated,
         blogTags,
         blogTagsListPath,
         authorsMap,
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/options.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/options.ts
index fe2d64e664a4..b808e144c805 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/options.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/options.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
   RouteBasePathSchema,
   URISchema,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils-validation';
-import {GlobExcludeDefault} from '@docusaurus/utils';
+import {DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID, GlobExcludeDefault} from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import type {
   PluginOptions,
   Options,
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import type {
 import type {OptionValidationContext} from '@docusaurus/types';
 
 export const DEFAULT_OPTIONS: PluginOptions = {
+  id: DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID,
   feedOptions: {
     type: ['rss', 'atom'],
     copyright: '',
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/plugin-content-blog.d.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/plugin-content-blog.d.ts
index 625aaf94df87..944a113c0aad 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/plugin-content-blog.d.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/plugin-content-blog.d.ts
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ declare module '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog' {
   export type PluginOptions = MDXOptions &
     TagsPluginOptions & {
       /** Plugin ID. */
-      id?: string;
+      id: string;
       /**
        * Path to the blog content directory on the file system, relative to site
        * directory.
@@ -583,9 +583,10 @@ declare module '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog' {
   export type AuthorsMap = {[authorKey: string]: AuthorWithKey};
 
   export type BlogContent = {
-    blogSidebarTitle: string;
+    blogTitle: string; // for translation purposes
+    blogDescription: string; // for translation purposes
+    blogSidebarTitle: string; // for translation purposes
     blogPosts: BlogPost[];
-    blogListPaginated: BlogPaginated[];
     blogTags: BlogTags;
     blogTagsListPath: string;
     authorsMap?: AuthorsMap;
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/routes.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/routes.ts
index ced92dc0fda9..55bb98212e73 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/routes.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/routes.ts
@@ -67,27 +67,24 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
     blogArchiveComponent,
     routeBasePath,
     archiveBasePath,
-    blogTitle,
     authorsBasePath,
     postsPerPage,
-    blogDescription,
+    pageBasePath,
   } = options;
-  const pluginId = options.id!;
+  const pluginId = options.id;
   const {createData} = actions;
   const {
+    blogTitle,
+    blogDescription,
     blogSidebarTitle,
     blogPosts,
-    blogListPaginated,
     blogTags,
     blogTagsListPath,
     authorsMap,
   } = content;
 
-  const authorsListPath = normalizeUrl([
-    baseUrl,
-    routeBasePath,
-    authorsBasePath,
-  ]);
+  const blogBasePath = normalizeUrl([baseUrl, routeBasePath]);
+  const authorsListPath = normalizeUrl([blogBasePath, authorsBasePath]);
 
   const listedBlogPosts = blogPosts.filter(shouldBeListed);
 
@@ -119,7 +116,7 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
 
   async function createBlogMetadataModule() {
     const blogMetadata: BlogMetadata = {
-      blogBasePath: normalizeUrl([baseUrl, routeBasePath]),
+      blogBasePath,
       blogTitle,
       authorsListPath,
     };
@@ -156,7 +153,7 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
     if (archiveBasePath && listedBlogPosts.length) {
       return [
         {
-          path: normalizeUrl([baseUrl, routeBasePath, archiveBasePath]),
+          path: normalizeUrl([blogBasePath, archiveBasePath]),
           component: blogArchiveComponent,
           exact: true,
           props: {
@@ -210,6 +207,15 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
   }
 
   function createBlogPostsPaginatedRoutes(): RouteConfig[] {
+    const blogListPaginated = paginateBlogPosts({
+      blogPosts: listedBlogPosts,
+      blogTitle,
+      blogDescription,
+      postsPerPageOption: postsPerPage,
+      basePageUrl: blogBasePath,
+      pageBasePath,
+    });
+
     return blogListPaginated.map((paginated) => {
       return {
         path: paginated.metadata.permalink,
@@ -294,12 +300,14 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
           sidebar: sidebarModulePath,
         },
         props: {
-          authors: authors.map((author) =>
-            toAuthorItemProp({
+          authors: authors.map((author) => {
+            const authorPosts = blogPostsByAuthorKey[author.key] ?? [];
+            const listedAuthorPosts = authorPosts.filter(shouldBeListed);
+            return toAuthorItemProp({
               author,
-              count: blogPostsByAuthorKey[author.key]?.length ?? 0,
-            }),
-          ),
+              count: listedAuthorPosts.length,
+            });
+          }),
         },
         context: {
           blogMetadata: blogMetadataModulePath,
@@ -309,12 +317,13 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
 
     function createAuthorPaginatedRoute(author: AuthorWithKey): RouteConfig[] {
       const authorBlogPosts = blogPostsByAuthorKey[author.key] ?? [];
+      const listedAuthorBlogPosts = authorBlogPosts.filter(shouldBeListed);
       if (!author.page) {
         return [];
       }
 
       const pages = paginateBlogPosts({
-        blogPosts: authorBlogPosts,
+        blogPosts: listedAuthorBlogPosts,
         basePageUrl: author.page.permalink,
         blogDescription,
         blogTitle,
@@ -332,7 +341,10 @@ export async function buildAllRoutes({
             sidebar: sidebarModulePath,
           },
           props: {
-            author: toAuthorItemProp({author, count: authorBlogPosts.length}),
+            author: toAuthorItemProp({
+              author,
+              count: listedAuthorBlogPosts.length,
+            }),
             listMetadata: metadata,
           },
           context: {
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/translations.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/translations.ts
index 9cf763de3b42..4e256ac5ada3 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/translations.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/translations.ts
@@ -5,30 +5,8 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-import type {TranslationFileContent, TranslationFile} from '@docusaurus/types';
-import type {
-  PluginOptions,
-  BlogContent,
-  BlogPaginated,
-} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog';
-
-function translateListPage(
-  blogListPaginated: BlogPaginated[],
-  translations: TranslationFileContent,
-) {
-  return blogListPaginated.map((page) => {
-    const {items, metadata} = page;
-    return {
-      items,
-      metadata: {
-        ...metadata,
-        blogTitle: translations.title?.message ?? page.metadata.blogTitle,
-        blogDescription:
-          translations.description?.message ?? page.metadata.blogDescription,
-      },
-    };
-  });
-}
+import type {TranslationFile} from '@docusaurus/types';
+import type {PluginOptions, BlogContent} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog';
 
 export function getTranslationFiles(options: PluginOptions): TranslationFile[] {
   return [
@@ -56,14 +34,13 @@ export function translateContent(
   content: BlogContent,
   translationFiles: TranslationFile[],
 ): BlogContent {
-  const {content: optionsTranslations} = translationFiles[0]!;
+  const {content: translations} = translationFiles[0]!;
   return {
     ...content,
+    blogTitle: translations.title?.message ?? content.blogTitle,
+    blogDescription:
+      translations.description?.message ?? content.blogDescription,
     blogSidebarTitle:
-      optionsTranslations['sidebar.title']?.message ?? content.blogSidebarTitle,
-    blogListPaginated: translateListPage(
-      content.blogListPaginated,
-      optionsTranslations,
-    ),
+      translations['sidebar.title']?.message ?? content.blogSidebarTitle,
   };
 }
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
index aea10501f2e5..cb2a647b005b 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import {
   addTrailingPathSeparator,
   createAbsoluteFilePathMatcher,
   getContentPathList,
-  DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import {createMDXLoaderRule} from '@docusaurus/mdx-loader';
 import {createAllRoutes} from './routes';
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ export default async function pluginContentPages(
     generatedFilesDir,
     'docusaurus-plugin-content-pages',
   );
-  const dataDir = path.join(pluginDataDirRoot, options.id ?? DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID);
+  const dataDir = path.join(pluginDataDirRoot, options.id);
 
   async function createPagesMDXLoaderRule(): Promise<RuleSetRule> {
     const {
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/options.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/options.ts
index 2ffda3e7c2fa..8d6383c7aea0 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/options.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/options.ts
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ import {
   RouteBasePathSchema,
   URISchema,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils-validation';
-import {GlobExcludeDefault} from '@docusaurus/utils';
+import {DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID, GlobExcludeDefault} from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import type {OptionValidationContext} from '@docusaurus/types';
 import type {PluginOptions, Options} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
 
 export const DEFAULT_OPTIONS: PluginOptions = {
+  id: DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID,
   path: 'src/pages', // Path to data on filesystem, relative to site dir.
   routeBasePath: '/', // URL Route.
   include: ['**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx,md,mdx}'], // Extensions to include.
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
index c0e02f40aed5..ca5bd518f35a 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ declare module '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages' {
   };
 
   export type PluginOptions = MDXOptions & {
-    id?: string;
+    id: string;
     path: string;
     routeBasePath: string;
     include: string[];
diff --git a/website/community/2-resources.mdx b/website/community/2-resources.mdx
index beaef3be1097..25b8362bf8cd 100644
--- a/website/community/2-resources.mdx
+++ b/website/community/2-resources.mdx
@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ See the <a href={require('@docusaurus/useBaseUrl').default('showcase')}>showcase
 - [docusaurus-openapi-docs](https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/docusaurus-openapi-docs) - A Docusaurus plugin and theme for generating interactive OpenAPI docs
 - [docusaurus-post-generator](https://github.com/moojing/docusaurus-post-generator) - A command line tool for user to add a blog/doc file quickly by command like `yarn gen-post new [template] [post_name]`.
 - [docusaurus-graph](https://github.com/Arsero/docusaurus-graph) - A Docusaurus plugin for generating a graph view showing links between documentation files.
-- [docusaurus-i18n](https://github.com/moonrailgun/docusaurus-i18n) - Auto translate docusaurus documents with openai.
+- [docusaurus-i18n](https://github.com/moonrailgun/docusaurus-i18n) - Auto-translate docusaurus documents with openai.
+- [docusaurus-plugin-glossary](https://github.com/mcclowes/docusaurus-plugin-glossary) - A docusaurus plugin for helping users understand key terms.
+- [docusaurus-plugin-cookie-consent](https://github.com/mcclowes/docusaurus-plugin-cookie-consent) - A Docusaurus plugin for allowing users to opt in/out of cookies, and accessing those settings in code.
 
 ## Enterprise usage {#enterprise-usage}