diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 19ee3a57..80df4495 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ The alchemlyb project is led by Oliver Beckstein (@orbeckst), David
 Mobley (@davidlmobley), and Michal Shirts (@mrshirts). alchemlyb was
 originally created by David Dotson (@dotsdl).
 
+The project is being maintained by Zhiyi Wu (@xiki-tempula) and Oliver
+Beckstein (@orbeckst).
+
 All contributing authors are listed in this file below. Full name and
 GitHub handle are preferred. The repository history at
 https://github.com/alchemistry/alchemlyb and the CHANGES file show
@@ -47,5 +50,6 @@ Chronological list of authors
   - Irfan Alibay (@IAlibay)
   - Pascal Merz (@ptmerz)
   - Domenico Marson (@DrDomenicoMarson)
+
 2023
   - Haoxi Li (@hl2500)
diff --git a/docs/.templates/footer.html b/docs/.templates/footer.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8503b5ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/.templates/footer.html
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{% extends "!footer.html" %}
+{% block contentinfo %}
+    <p>
+    {%- if show_copyright %}
+      {%- if hasdoc('copyright') %}
+        {%- trans path=pathto('copyright'), copyright=copyright %}&#169; <a href="{{ path }}">Copyright</a> {{ copyright }}.{% endtrans %}
+      {%- else %}
+        {%- trans copyright=copyright %}&#169; Copyright {{ copyright }}.{% endtrans %}
+      {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+
+    {%- if build_id and build_url %}
+      <span class="build">
+        {#- Translators: Build is a noun, not a verb -#}
+        {%- trans %}Build{% endtrans -%}
+        <a href="{{ build_url }}">{{ build_id }}</a>.
+      </span>
+    {%- elif commit %}
+      <span class="commit">
+        {#- Translators: the phrase "revision" comes from Git, referring to a commit #}
+        {%- trans %}Revision{% endtrans %} <code>{{ commit }}</code>.
+      </span>
+    {%- endif %}
+    {%- if last_updated %}
+      <span class="lastupdated">
+        {%- trans last_updated=last_updated|e %}Last updated on {{ last_updated }}.{% endtrans %}
+      </span>
+    {%- endif -%}
+
+    </p>
+
+{% endblock %}
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index a2e7ae3e..5d78c185 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 # import sys
 # sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
 
+import datetime
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
-templates_path = ["_templates"]
+templates_path = [".templates"]
 
 # The suffix(es) of source filenames.
 # You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
@@ -51,12 +52,10 @@
 master_doc = "index"
 
 # General information about the project.
+now = datetime.datetime.now()
 project = "alchemlyb"
-author = """Irfan Alibay, Bryce Allen, Mohammad S. Barhaghi, Oliver
-Beckstein, David Dotson, Jérôme Hénin, Travis Jensen, Thomas
-T. Joseph, Ian Kenney, Hyungro Lee, Victoria Lim, Shuai Liu, Domenico
-Marson, Pascal Merz, Alexander Schlaich, Dominik Wille, Zhiyi Wu"""
-copyright = "2017-2022, " + author
+author = 'The alchemlyb development team (see <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alchemistry/alchemlyb/master/AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a>)'
+copyright = f"2017-{now.year}, " + author
 
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
@@ -176,7 +175,7 @@
 
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
 intersphinx_mapping = {
-    "https://docs.python.org/": None,
+    "python": ("https://docs.python.org/", None),
     "pandas": ("https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/", None),
     "pymbar": ("https://pymbar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/", None),
     "alchemtest": ("https://alchemtest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/", None),