Hooks feature: run plugin events from local Python files #2978
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Add a new
hooks
config tomkdocs.yml
:A list of paths to Python scripts (relative to
mkdocs.yml
) that are loaded and used as plugin instances.For example:
Then the file my_hooks.py can contain any plugin event handlers (without
self
), e.g.:This does not enable any new abilities compared to plugins, it only simplifies one-off usages, as these don't need to be installed like plugins do.
Note that for
mkdocs serve
the hook module will not be reloaded on each build.You might have seen this feature in the mkdocs-simple-hooks plugin by @aklajnert. If using standard method names, it can be directly replaced, e.g.: