Pagination on blog with only featured posts on front page

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You have to make sure your posts belong to at least one collection.
Your main collection now doesn’t include non-featured posts.

See more details here:

Broken Post URL for Featured Posts

Collections change the URL of a post, if a post isn’t included in a collection then it has no URL which I think is what you are seeing. It sounds like you may want to leave the default collection alone and use a channel for your homepage instead? https://ghost.org/docs/themes/routing/#channels

and here:

Broken post link

I’m using a custom theme for Ghost and I just found out I have a broken link to a post…just one. Everything else is normal. The post shows as featured and on my index page. It only redirects to 404 page. Has anyone experienced something similar? Does anyone know how to fix this? Here’s the link to the post. If you navigate to my home page and click on “Failure Is The Driving Force Of Improvement” you’ll be able to see what happens.