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Setting up the footer

The footer of your project documentation is a great place to add links to websites or platforms you or your company are using as additional marketing channels, e.g. , or , which can be configured via mkdocs.yml.

Configuration

Source · Default: none

All social links are rendered next to the copyright information as part of the footer of your project documentation. Add a list of social links in mkdocs.yml with:

extra:
  social:
    - icon: fontawesome/brands/twitter
      link: https://twitter.com/squidfunk

For each entry, the following fields are available:

icon

Default: none · Required – This field must point to a valid icon path referencing any icon bundled with the theme, or the build will not succeed. Some popular choices:

  • – fontawesome/brands/behance
  • – fontawesome/brands/docker
  • – fontawesome/brands/github
  • – fontawesome/brands/instagram
  • – fontawesome/brands/linkedin
  • – fontawesome/brands/medium
  • – fontawesome/brands/pied-piper-alt
  • – fontawesome/brands/product-hunt
  • – fontawesome/brands/slack
  • – fontawesome/brands/twitter
link

Default: none · Required – This field must contain a valid relative or absolute URL including the URI scheme. All URI schemes are supported, including mailto and bitcoin:

extra:
  social:
    - icon: fontawesome/brands/twitter
      link: https://twitter.com/squidfunk

extra:
  social:
    - icon: fontawesome/solid/paper-plane
      link: mailto:<email-address>
name

Default: domain name from link, if available – This field is used as the link's title attribute and can be set to a discernable name to improve accessibility:

extra:
  social:
    - icon: fontawesome/brands/twitter
      link: https://twitter.com/squidfunk
      name: squidfunk on Twitter

Source · Default: none

A custom copyright banner can be rendered as part of the footer, which is displayed next to the social links. It can be defined as part of mkdocs.yml:

copyright: Copyright &copy; 2016 - 2020 Martin Donath

Remove generator

Source · Insiders only

The footer displays a Made with Material for MkDocs notice to denote how the site was generated. The notice can be removed with the following setting via mkdocs.yml:

extra:
  generator: false

Customization

Custom icons

Source · Difficulty: moderate

The social links feature uses the standard icon integration of Material for MkDocs. If you want to use custom icons, follow the guide explaining how to add additional icons.