MkDocs Tech Docs Template

Build flexible documentation

The MkDocs Tech Docs Template is a Python-based alternative to the Ruby-based Tech Docs Template with the following benefits:

• easy to set up, customise and enhance
• adapts the MkDocs Materials theme to follow the GOV.UK style
• compatible with the vast ecosystem of MkDocs plugins
• unified tech stack for Python-based projects

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Prototype

This project is now deprecated. See govuk-eleventy-plugin for an alternative.

Restrictions

You can use the MkDocs Tech Docs Template even if your documentation site is not part of GOV.UK, but it must not:

• identify itself as part of GOV.UK
• use the crown or GOV.UK logotype in the header
• use the GDS Transport typeface
• say or suggest that it is an official UK government website