Mkdocs-Matplotlib is a plugin for mkdocs which allows you to automatically generate matplotlib figures and add them to your documentation. Simply write the code as markdown into your documention.

This plugin can be installed with pip

pip install mkdocs-matplotlib

To enable this plugin for mkdocs you need to add the following lines to your mkdocs.yml.

plugins:
  - mkdocs_matplotlib

To render a code cell using matplotlib you simply have to add the comment # mkdocs: render at the top of the cell.

# mkdocs: render
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

xpoints = np.array([1, 8])
ypoints = np.array([3, 10])

plt.plot(xpoints, ypoints)

In addition you can add the comment # mkdocs: hidecode to hide the code and and # mkdocs: hideoutput to hide the output image of the cell.