diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 805b4c3be1..e3b2bc6562 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -36,7 +36,16 @@ templates_path = ['_templates']
 # The suffix(es) of source filenames.
 # You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
 # source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
-source_suffix = '.md'
+
+from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser
+
+source_parsers = {
+    '.md': CommonMarkParser,
+}
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']html
 
 # The encoding of source files.
 #source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
@@ -139,7 +148,7 @@ html_theme = 'default'
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = []
+html_static_path = ['_static']
 
 # Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
 # .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied