Setup

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.

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.

Content

Create a blog, integrate a comment system, connect a git repository, and set up versioned documentation that matches your project’s versioning methodology.

Optimization

Add site analytics and build an optimized site by adding automatic image compression, complying with GDPR data privacy regulations, and making it offline-capable.