mkdocs-versioning

mkdocs-versioning is a plugin for mkdocs, a tool designed to create static websites usually for generating project documentation.

mkdocs-versioning extends mkdocs by differentiating between different versions of documentation you may build. For example, a newer versions of some software may work differently from an older version and it is important that users of an older version of the software reads the appropriate version of the documentation in order to ensure that the user has the correct information and uses the software appropriately.

Archive

The project is no longer maintained. Instead, use https://github.com/jimporter/mike as it is more popular and is under active development. The plugin should still work as long as mkdocs does not change how it builds documentation. If you are willing to take over the project, feel free to get in touch.

Setup

Install the plugin using pip:

pip install mkdocs-versioning

Next, add the following lines to your mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
  - search
  - mkdocs-versioning:
      version: 0.3.0

If you have no plugins entry in your config file yet, you'll likely also want to add the search plugin. MkDocs enables it by default if there is no plugins entry set.

Usage

Instructions on how to use the plugin is available at https://zayd62.github.io/mkdocs-versioning/

Contributing

Please note that mkdocs-versioning is currently in Beta and there may be missing feature/documentation so if you could help out by either:

1. finding and reporting bugs
2. contributing by checking out the issues

Troubleshooting

Combined use of awesome-pages and mkdocs-versioning

In case of using awesome-pages the order of registration within the plugins is important. The following error may occur:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "/path/to/mkversion/entry.py", line 47, on_config
    for count, i in enumerate(nav):
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

You need to make sure, that the awesome-pages plugin is register after mkdocs-versioning:

plugins:
  - mkdocs-versioning:
      version: "1.0"
  - awesome-pages