Smaller footer

[TheZoker]

Hi there,

Is there any option to have a smaller footer? Maybe the copyright text on the left and then some links on the right (just like the header)?

Something like:

Thanks!

[slorber]

You can use the swizzle cli feature and basically override @theme/Footer with your own implementation

[TheZoker]

Thanks! Is there any documentation available for this?

[armano2]

you can find it here https://docusaurus.io/docs/cli#docusaurus-swizzle-sitedir

yarn run swizzle @docusaurus/theme-classic Footer

[HonkingGoose]

@slorber Is swizzlling a thing that end-users should do now then?

Quote from https://docusaurus.io/docs/using-themes#swizzling-theme-components

We would like to discourage swizzling of components until we've minimally reached a Beta stage. The components APIs have been changing rapidly and are likely to keep changing until we reach Beta. Stick with the default appearance for now if possible to save yourself some potential pain in future.

[slorber]

@HonkingGoose if you can do something without swizzling it's always better to avoid it, but if you want a custom footer ultimately there is no other choice.

The risk with swizzling is when we change the API of theme components, as it may break your code, and the whole theme becomes somehow a public API surface.

But if you implement fully a custom Footer component, not reading any input props, not using any other theme component inside it, you basically don't risk anything as it's unlikely we remove the theme/Footer component anyway

[slorber]

• the cli reco with colors which comps are "safer" to swizzle, and Footer is one of them

[HonkingGoose]

Thanks for responding to me @slorber! 😄