Get more control over URLs, manage your site’s structure more easily, install integrations more easily, and auto-play and loop embedded videos in your docs effortlessly
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After all last month’s announcements, we’ve been hard at work making more improvements that should make it easier to work with your content across your docs sites. Stay tuned for more coming soon!
Want to migrate content into GitBook, or just have a big reorganization? With the new site redirect options, you now have more control over where your old URLs point to. Open your site’s dashboard and open Settings to find the new controls.
GitBook already sets up HTTP 301 redirects if you move or rename a page, so that the old URL points to the new URL automatically. But you can now create a redirect from any path in your site's domain — which is important to avoid broken links in your docs which could impact SEO.
Head to our docs to find out more about site redirects.
We’ve given our integrations flow a big overhaul to make it easier to browse, install and configure integrations across all your content. Just click Integrations in the sidebar to head into the new page, where you’ll be able to see all available integrations and install them with one click.
There’s also a new Integrations button for spaces and sites, which opens a modal showing just the integrations enabled on that space or site. You can click to configure the ones you need or see more details about them, or install any others that you need.
We’ve also tweaked the way you rename variants — now, you can only do it from the site structure table, and the option is no longer available in the Customization menu.
Head to your site’s dashboard and open Settings to see the new table and test it out.
We’ve added automatic transformations for more symbols in the editor. You can now add an em-dash by typing -- , fractions by typing, for example, 1/2 and math symbols such as ⇒ ≥ and ≠ by typing =>, >= and != respectively.
We’re constantly working on improving the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.
Last month we launched site sections, giving you all the tools to build your docs out into a content hub for your users. This month, we’ve improved the site structure controls to make it easier to manage your site sections and any within them.
Want your to auto-play and loop in your docs? Just add ?autoplay=1&_loop=1 to the end of your video’s URL when you embed it and your users will never have to hit a play button again — at least in your docs.
