Three sections of Appearance > Customize > Doku Options decide what appears around the article.
Header
| Option | Effect |
|---|---|
| Header width | Match the content width (the default) lines the header bar up with the page beneath it: your logo starts on the sidebar’s outer edge and the theme toggle ends on the table of contents’ outer edge, so the bar sits inside the same frame the two side columns draw. Full width lets the bar span the whole window instead, which suits a wide site with a lot in the menu. Below 1101px the bar is already narrower than the limit, so this changes nothing on phones or tablets. |
| Show the search bar | Hides the header search field. The Ctrl/Cmd+K shortcut is disabled along with it and returns to the browser. |
| Show the version dropdown | Hides the version switcher. It only ever appears when doc_version terms exist in the first place. |
| Columned mega menu | On by default. Turn it off to render a three-level menu branch as nested dropdowns instead of a columned panel. Branches only two levels deep look the same either way. This is the default for menu items left on Automatic; an item given an explicit Menu style in Appearance > Menus ignores it. |
Documentation pages
| Option | Effect |
|---|---|
| Documentation home page | A page whose title and content open the documentation index at /docs/, above the category cards. See The documentation index. |
| Show breadcrumbs | Hides breadcrumbs on documentation pages, blog posts and the blog’s listings, including the Yoast and Rank Math variants. |
| Show previous / next links | Hides the pager at the bottom of each doc. |
| Show tags | Hides the list of a doc’s tags at the end of the article. Tag pages stay reachable at their own addresses. |
| Show the “Was this helpful?” rating | Hides the thumbs up / down rating. Existing votes stay recorded in post meta, keep showing in the Docs list, and the widget returns if you switch it back on. |
| Show “Copy as Markdown” and “View as Markdown” | On by default. Adds the Page actions menu to the breadcrumb row on each documentation page. Requires the Doku Core plugin, which provides the export itself. See Markdown Export. |
| Show “Open in Claude” and “Open in ChatGPT” | Off by default. These add links to third-party AI assistants, so they are opt-in; and because they pass the page’s address rather than its content, they only work on a site the assistant can reach. |
| Table of contents depth | How many heading levels the “On this page” list shows: One level, Two levels or Three levels, the default and the most the list shows. Counted from the first heading level on each page; deeper headings stay in the article. See Table of Contents. |
Footer
Footer text replaces the default © {year} {site title} line. Basic HTML is allowed. Leave it empty to keep the default.
To put a row of links beside that line, such as a privacy policy, terms or a contact page, create a menu under Appearance > Menus and assign it to the Footer Menu location. Only its top-level items are shown, so the bar stays a single row; on a phone the links move under the copyright line.
To add columns of links above the copyright line, go to Appearance > Widgets and add widgets to the Footer area; each widget becomes a column. The area only renders when it contains at least one widget. It is separate from the Blog Sidebar and the two page column areas described under Layout, so each can hold different widgets.
For a column of links, create a menu for it under Appearance > Menus (it needs no display location), then add a Navigation Menu widget to the Footer area and choose that menu. The widget’s title becomes the column heading, and screen readers announce each column as navigation under that name. A menu is easier to keep up than a list of links typed into a block: rename or move a page, and its menu entry follows.
The footer’s background runs the full width of the window, while its columns line up with the header and the side columns above them, sharing the full width of the layout. The side columns stay where they are as you scroll, and shorten as the footer comes into view so that they stop right where it begins — the footer never covers the last few entries of either.
The same theming the side-column widgets get applies here too — the calendar, search form, tag cloud, comment list, RSS list and social icons match your accent color and light/dark mode in the footer exactly as they do in the side columns. A column’s title uses your theme’s ordinary heading style rather than the side columns’ small uppercase label, since here it heads a column of content rather than a rail.