Python documentations frontpage

Question

http://docs.python.org/3/

I would like to mimic python documentations fronpage for my own project. Trouble is every other page has show source link in the sidebar except for the front page.

How can I archive the same effect on new sphinx project?

Answer 1

The documentation front page at http://docs.python.org/3/ is based on Jinja templates.

• The top-level template is layout.html, which extends a Sphinx template with the same name.
• indexcontent.html provides the structure for the main content.
• The sidebar has its own special template: indexsidebar.html.

The theme is called pydoctheme (html_theme = 'pydoctheme' in conf.py).

More information about templates and themes in Sphinx:

• http://sphinx-doc.org/templating.html
• http://sphinx-doc.org/theming.html