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Documentation Enhancements & Advanced Features

This guide summarizes the advanced features, plugins, and best practices now enabled in your ReViewPoint documentation.

MkDocs Material Features

  • Sticky Tabs & Sections: Persistent navigation for easy browsing.
  • Instant Search & Suggestions: Fast, fuzzy search with suggestions and sharing.
  • Announcement Banner: Highlight important updates at the top of every page.
  • Custom 404 Page: Friendly error page for missing content.
  • Cards & Grids: Use Material’s grid and card features for beautiful landing pages.
  • Admonitions & Tabs: Use !!! note, !!! warning, and tabbed code blocks for clarity.

Plugins Enabled

  • awesome-pages: Custom sidebar ordering and collapsible navigation.
  • mermaid2: Embed diagrams and flowcharts using Mermaid syntax.
  • minify: Faster site loads with minified HTML.
  • git-revision-date-localized: Shows last updated date on each page.
  • glightbox: Clickable, zoomable images.
  • macros: Reusable content blocks and variables.

Analytics

  • Plausible analytics integration for privacy-friendly usage stats (customize domain in mkdocs.yml).

Theming & Branding

  • Custom logo and favicon support (add your logo to docs/content/images/logo.png).
  • Custom footer and social links.

Accessibility & Internationalization

  • Ready for accessible color schemes and language selector (enable in mkdocs.yml if needed).

Linting & CI

  • Recommended: Set up CI to lint Markdown and preview docs on pull requests.

How to Use These Features

graph TD;
  A-->B;
  A-->C;
  B-->D;
  C-->D;
  • Use admonitions for callouts:
!!! note
This is a note.
  • Use tabbed code blocks:
=== "Python"
`python
    print("Hello, world!")
    `

=== "JavaScript"
`js
    console.log("Hello, world!");
    `

For more, see the MkDocs Material documentation.