Add the ability to add a center section to the footer

docs/conf.py

@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@
     # "primary_sidebar_end": ["custom-template.html", "sidebar-ethical-ads.html"],
     # "article_footer_items": ["test.html", "test.html"],
     # "content_footer_items": ["test.html", "test.html"],
-    # "footer_start": ["test.html", "test.html"],
+    "footer_start": ["copyright.html"],
+    "footer_center": ["sphinx-version.html"],
     # "secondary_sidebar_items": ["page-toc.html"],  # Remove the source buttons
     "switcher": {
         "json_url": json_url,

docs/user_guide/layout.rst

@@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ Footer
 Located in ``sections/footer.html``.
 
 The footer is just below a page's main content, and is configured in ``conf.py``
-with ``html_theme_options['footer_start']`` and ``html_theme_options['footer_end']``.
+with ``html_theme_options['footer_start']``, ``html_theme_options['footer_center']`` and ``html_theme_options['footer_end']``.
 
-By default, ``footer_end`` is empty, and ``footer_start`` has the following templates:
+By default, ``footer_center`` is empty, and ``footer_start`` and ``footer_end`` have the following templates:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 

src/pydata_sphinx_theme/__init__.py

@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ def update_and_remove_templates(
         "theme_article_footer_items",
         "theme_content_footer_items",
         "theme_footer_start",
+        "theme_footer_center",
         "theme_footer_end",
         "theme_secondary_sidebar_items",
         "theme_primary_sidebar_end",

src/pydata_sphinx_theme/assets/styles/sections/_footer.scss

@@ -10,15 +10,20 @@
   }
 
   .footer-items__start,
+  .footer-items__center,
   .footer-items__end {
     display: flex;
     flex-direction: column;
     gap: 0.5rem;
     justify-content: center;
+    flex-grow: 1;
+  }
+
+  .footer-items__center {
+    text-align: center;
   }
 
   .footer-items__end {
-    margin-left: auto;
     text-align: end;
   }
 

src/pydata_sphinx_theme/theme/pydata_sphinx_theme/sections/footer.html

@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
       {% endfor %}
     </div>
   {% endif %}
+  {% if theme_footer_center %}
+    <div class="footer-items__center">
+      {% for item in theme_footer_center %}
+        <div class="footer-item">{% include item %}</div>
+      {% endfor %}
+    </div>
+  {% endif %}
   {% if theme_footer_end %}
     <div class="footer-items__end">
       {% for item in theme_footer_end %}

src/pydata_sphinx_theme/theme/pydata_sphinx_theme/theme.conf

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ article_footer_items =
 content_footer_items =
 primary_sidebar_end = sidebar-ethical-ads.html
 footer_start = copyright.html, sphinx-version.html
+footer_center =
 footer_end = theme-version.html
 secondary_sidebar_items = page-toc.html, edit-this-page.html, sourcelink.html
 show_version_warning_banner = False

tests/test_build.py

@@ -422,6 +422,22 @@ def test_included_toc(sphinx_build_factory) -> None:
     assert included_page_html is not None
 
 
+def test_footer(sphinx_build_factory) -> None:
+    """Test for expected footer contents."""
+    overrides = {
+        "html_theme_options.footer_start": ["copyright.html"],
+        "html_theme_options.footer_center": ["sphinx-version.html"],
+    }
+    sphinx_build = sphinx_build_factory("base", confoverrides=overrides).build()
+    index_html = sphinx_build.html_tree("index.html")
+    footer_sta = index_html.select("div.footer-items__start")[0]
+    footer_ctr = index_html.select("div.footer-items__center")[0]
+    footer_end = index_html.select("div.footer-items__end")[0]
+    assert "Pydata community" in footer_sta.text
+    assert "Created using" in footer_ctr.text
+    assert "Built with the" in footer_end.text
+
+
 # html contexts for `show_edit_button`
 
 # these are "good" context fragments that should yield a working link