Setup¶
Material for MkDocs offers a wide range of options for customizing your documentation. In this section, we will explain how you can create a meaningful structure for your site, change the look and feel, add a blog and comment system, and build a highly optimized site.
Site structure¶
Set up and customize the structure of your documentation by configuring the header and footer to your taste, choosing among many modes of navigation, setting up site search, and more.
- Recent Updates – Display a list of recently updated documents anywhere with a single line of code
- Navigation – Create a clear, concise, and comprehensive navigation structure
- Header – Customize the behavior of the header, add an announcement bar
- Footer – Add links to your social media profiles or websites in the footer
- Search – Set up and configure search, running entirely in the user's browser
- Tags – Categorize your pages with tags and group related pages
Appearance¶
Match your brand's colors, fonts, icons, logo, and more with a few lines of configuration – Material for MkDocs makes it easy to extend the basic configuration or alter the appearance.
- Colors – Change colors with an existing color palette or customize with CSS
- Fonts – Choose among 1,000 Google Fonts or load self-hosted fonts
- Logo & Icons – Change the logo, use any of the 8,000+ icons, or add new ones
- Social Cards – Automatically create social media previews when sharing links
Content¶
Create a blog, integrate a comment system, connect a git repository, and set up versioned documentation that matches your project's versioning methodology.
- Blog – Set up a standalone blog or host it alongside your documentation
- Comment System – Add a third-party comment system on any page or footer
- Repository – Connect your documentation to your git repository
- Dates & Authors – Adding date author information to documents