Creating a footer
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On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Wiki.
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At the bottom of the page, click Add a custom footer.
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Use the text editor to type the content you want your footer to have.
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In the "Edit message" field, enter a commit message describing the footer you’re adding.
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To commit your changes to the wiki, click Save Page.
Creating a sidebar
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On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Wiki.
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Click Add a custom sidebar on the right side of the page.
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Use the text editor to add your page's content.
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In the "Edit message" field, enter a commit message describing the sidebar you’re adding.
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To commit your changes to the wiki, click Save Page.
Creating a footer or sidebar locally
If you create a file named _Footer.<extension>
or _Sidebar.<extension>
, we'll use them to populate the footer and sidebar of your wiki, respectively. Like every other wiki page, the extension you choose for these files determines how we render them.