features

Features

• Syntax highlighting — Fenced code blocks with language annotations are automatically highlighted
• Homepage content — Create content/pages/index.md for custom homepage hero/landing content above collection listings
• Multi-language — Filename-based translations with per-language URLs, RSS, sitemap, and discovery files
• SEO+GEO optimized — Every page gets canonical URL, Open Graph (with image absolutization, dimensions, article:published_time/article:modified_time), Twitter Card, JSON-LD structured data (BlogPosting/Article/WebSite + BreadcrumbList), and per-page robots meta. No plugins needed.
• LLM discoverability — Generates llms.txt (summary) and llms-full.txt (full markdown with source URLs) for LLM consumption; <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> in every page's <head>
• AI crawler management — robots.txt includes explicit directives: allows AI search crawlers (ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) and blocks AI training crawlers (GPTBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider)
• RSS feed — Auto-generated at /feed.xml (per-language feeds at /{lang}/feed.xml)
• Sitemap — Auto-generated at /sitemap.xml with hreflang alternates; lastmod uses updated date (with date fallback)
• Search — dist/search-index.json is auto-generated every build; the default theme includes a client-side search input that queries it. No config needed.
• Math/LaTeX rendering — Add math = true to [build] for server-side KaTeX rendering of $inline$ and $$display$$ math expressions. KaTeX CSS loaded automatically from CDN.
• Mermaid diagrams — Add mermaid = true to [build] to render fenced ```mermaid code blocks as client-side diagrams.
• Password access — Add [access] to seite.toml to password-protect any private = true collection via a generated Cloudflare Pages Worker. See Configuration section below.
• Image processing — Add [images] to seite.toml to auto-resize images, generate WebP and AVIF variants, inject srcset/<picture> elements, and add loading="lazy" (first image per page is skipped to optimize LCP). See Configuration section below.
• Analytics — Add [analytics] to seite.toml for Google Analytics, GTM, Plausible, Fathom, or Umami. Optional cookie consent banner. See Configuration section below.
• Tag pages — Auto-generated /tags/ index and /tags/{tag}/ archive pages, included in sitemap
• 404 page — Auto-generated dist/404.html using the 404.html template. Customize by creating templates/404.html. Dev server serves it on 404 responses.
• Table of contents — {{ page.toc }} is auto-generated from heading hierarchy; all headings get id anchors for deep linking
• Reading time & word count — {{ page.reading_time }} (minutes, 238 WPM) and {{ page.word_count }} available in all templates
• Asset pipeline — Add minify = true and/or fingerprint = true to [build] in seite.toml to minify CSS/JS and add content-hash suffixes (main.a1b2c3d4.css) with a dist/asset-manifest.json
• Markdown output — Every page gets a .md file alongside .html in dist/
• Clean URLs — /posts/hello-world (no .html extension)
• Draft exclusion — draft: true in frontmatter hides from builds (use --drafts to include)
• Shortcodes — Reusable content components in markdown. See Shortcodes section below.
• Subdomain deploys — Set subdomain = "docs" on a collection to deploy it to docs.{base_domain} with its own sitemap, RSS, robots.txt, and search index. Cross-subdomain links are auto-rewritten to absolute URLs. seite deploy --setup auto-creates Cloudflare/Netlify projects.