obsidian-mkdocs

Installing Python/mkdocs

pip install mkdocs-material "mkdocs-material[imaging]" mkdocs-minify-plugin mdx-breakless-lists mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin mkdocs-roamlinks-plugin mkdocs-callouts pygments python-frontmatter

• mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin, set fallback_to_build_date to true.
  mkdocs writing requirements and it’s gotchas can be found here mkdocs

Exporting bookstack to mkdocs, there are helper scripts found in infra repo and bookstack2obsidian

mkdocs Giscus

giscus

• first install the giscus app
• then create a public repo
• enable discussion in that repo
  • go to Settings -> General -> Features, turn on Discussion
• on the Giscus app, enter the repo name
• copy the generated snippet
  On mkdocs, create a new file comments.html
• ./overrides/partial
  add this into mkdocs.yml

theme:
  name: 'material'
  custom_dir: 'overrides'

Copy and paste these lines into comments.html, replace the lines with snippets if nessecary
Lastly, add the frontmatter comments: true to the md page

Github Pages

To simply deploy, just run mkdocs gh-deploy, it will build the site and automatically deploy to github.
To deploy the site to multiple places, consult obsidian-shell.

This is the best CSS settings for editing in obsidian, CSS can be edited following these steps in .obsidian/snippets folder

body {  
  --h1-size: 1.5em;  
  --h2-size: 1.4em;  
  --h3-size: 1.2em;  
  --h4-size: 1.12em;  
  --h5-size: 1.05em;  
  --h6-size: 1.05em;  
}