5 posts tagged with "docusaurus"

Docusaurus provides a powerful feature that displays the last updated time and last updated author for every blog post and documentation page.
However, when deploying a Docusaurus website on Vercel, many developers encounter the same confusing issue:

Every page shows the exact same “last updated” date — or no date at all.

This guide explains precisely why this happens and the exact configuration you must enable on Vercel to make Docusaurus timestamps work correctly.

Docusaurus doesn't have a built-in feature to create a separate image sitemap. The @docusaurus/plugin-sitemap only handles generating a sitemap for your pages and documentation, not for media like images.

Since the plugin doesn't have a specific option for image sitemaps, the recommended approach is to manually create an XML file that follows the image sitemap protocol and place it in the static directory of your Docusaurus project.

🔄 Update to: Count Number of Blog Posts in Docusaurus and Vercel

In my previous post, I shared a method to count the number of docs posts in a Docusaurus project and display it on your homepage, fully compatible with Vercel and static builds.

That method works great-if all your docs posts are plain .md or .mdx files in the docs/ directory.

But if you're like me and prefer organizing docs posts in folders (e.g., docs/folder/index.md), the previous approach silently misses those.

🔄 Update to: Count Number of Blog Posts in Docusaurus and Vercel

In my previous post, I shared a method to count the number of blog posts in a Docusaurus project and display it on your homepage, fully compatible with Vercel and static builds.

That method works great-if all your blog posts are plain .md or .mdx files in the blog/ directory.

But if you're like me and prefer organizing blog posts in folders (e.g., blog/my-post/index.md), the previous approach silently misses those.

Many developers using Docusaurus want to display the number of blog posts they have-especially on their homepage. While this may sound trivial, doing it the right way (that works on both your local dev and production builds like Vercel) requires some thought.

Here’s a simple and reliable way to implement this-no hacks, no unstable APIs, just clean engineering.