Version display on very simple setup

[daks]

Hello,

I just discovered mkdocs which is a nice little tool for simple documentation worflow like what I'm trying to implement:

• on CI git clone our repository
• pip install requirements
• mkdocs build
• push generated html files

I'm not trying to use any complex feature for now (like multiple versions), and don't want to mkdocs serve.

My problem is that I don't see the version displayed even with

# mkdocs.yml
extra:
  version: x.y.z

Is it possible to do?

update: I found some issues/discussions talking about version display but most were asking in a multi-versioning setup or using mike, and none asking in my simple use case

[squidfunk]

You currently cannot set a version string explicitly in mkdocs.yml. You need to use a tool that supports proper versioning, and currently, the only tool supported is mike, as is noted in the documentation. The reason for this is that proper version support needs a lot more logic than just setting a version, which is why we decided to natively support mike.

You could in theory add support yourself by using theme extension though.

[daks]

OK, so it means that this template is for advanced uses and is not suitable for simple ones like mine. I like the simple usecase of mkdocs and wanted to use a more user-friendly template but it seems that this one is not the one.
Thanks for your answer.