diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index b777ffe8..375b88fe 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 ^README\.Rmd$
 man-roxygen/
 README.html
+^_pkgdown\.yml$
+^docs$
+^pkgdown$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 427c570d..3b99e35f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ configure.log
 src/proto/
 README.html
 src/Makevars
+docs
diff --git a/_pkgdown.yml b/_pkgdown.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d71acfb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_pkgdown.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+url: ~
+template:
+  bootstrap: 5
+