qiskit_sphinx_theme

The Sphinx theme for the Qiskit documentation.

Overview

This repository hosts three things:

• Qiskit Sphinx theme (located in the qiskit_sphinx_theme folder)
• Sample Docs (located in the docs folder)
• Qiskit Docs Guide (located in the docs_guide folder)

The Qiskit Sphinx Theme is the theme used by Qiskit Documentation (https://qiskit.org/documentation/) site. It contains mainly front end elements that gives the Qiskit design style.

The Sample Docs is a minimal Sphinx project that is used for testing the Qiskit Sphinx Theme. Every pull request will trigger a GitHub workflow that builds the Sample Docs to make sure the changes do not introduce unintended changes.

The Qiskit Docs Guide hosts instructions, guidelines and recommendations of good documentation practices. It's intent is to help Qiskit maintainers improve the documentation of their projects. The guide is hosted online here: https://qisk.it/docs-guide.

Installation

This package is available on PyPI using:

pip install qiskit-sphinx-theme

Configure Left Sidebar

To keep UX/UI similar across different Qiskit packages we strongly encourage the following structure for you sidebar, which can be set in the toctree of your index.rst:

.. toctree::
  :hidden:

   Documentation Home <index>
   Getting Started <getting_started>
   Tutorials <tutorials/index>
   How-to Guides <how_to/index>
   API Reference <apidocs/index>
   Explanations <explanations/index>
   Release Notes <release_notes>
   GitHub <https://github.com/your-repo>

The above toctree will render a sidebar that looks like the image below:

Each item in the toctree corresponds to a single .rst file, and can use internal links or external. External links will have a "new tab" icon rendered next to them.

In addition to the pages in the toctree, the sidebar also adds:

• (optional) a separate dropdown menu at the top with different languages, but only if you have a translations_list setup in your html_context in your conf.py corresponding logic in a version_utils.py.
• (optional) a dropdown at the bottom with links to previous releases, if you have a version_list setup in your html_context in your conf.py and corresponding logic in a version_utils.py.

Add Expandable Items to Sidebar

You may want to configure your documentation to include expandable items in the sidebar, for example:

To configure your documentation to use exapandable sidebar headings like the example above you must do the following:

1. Add a expandable_sidebar variable to the html_context object in your conf.py and set the value to True:

   html_context = {
       'expandable_sidebar': True
   }

2. Refactor the toctree in your index.rst to separate your pages into different sections. Sections that include a :caption: directive will be turned into expandable sidebar sections, with the caption forming the title of the dropdown. for example, to render the expandable sidebar shown above your toctree in your index.rst should look like this:

   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   
   Documentation Home <index>
   Getting Started <get_started>
   
   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   :caption: Tutorials
   
   Tutorial 1 <tutorials/01>
   Tutorial 2 <tutorials/02>
   Tutorial 3 <tutorials/03>>
   All Tutorials <tutorials/index>
   
   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   :glob:
   :caption: How-to Guides
   
   how_tos/*
   
   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   :glob:
   :caption: API Reference
   
   apidocs/*
   
   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   :glob:
   :caption: Explanations
   
   expalanations/*
   
   .. toctree::
   :hidden:
   
   Release Notes <release_notes>
   GitHub <https://github.com/your-repo>

Tip: if you want to add all files in a sub-directory to your expandable dropdown section you can use the :glob: directive instead of listing out each page (see example above for the How-to Guides, API Reference and Explanations sections). This will list out each page in alphabetical order, so if you want a specific order you will need to list the pages out individually in the toctree (see example above for the Tutorials section)

Enable Qiskit.org Analytics

Qiskit.org uses Segment Analytics to collect information on traffic to sites under the qiskit.org domain. This is not enabled by default but if you would like to enable it you can add a analytics_enabled variable to the html_context object in your conf.py. Setting this to True will enable analytics for your site once it is deployed to qiskit.org/documentation.

html_context = {
    'analytics_enabled': True
}

By enabling analytics we will be able to collect information on number of visits to each documentation page. It will also trigger the addition of a Was this page helpful? component at the bottom of each documentation page, so users will be able to provide yes/no feedback for each page.

If you do not enable analytics no data will be collected and the Was this page helpful? component will not show.