diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index ff40655..402239f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -51,13 +51,11 @@ jobs:
         shell: Rscript {0}
 
       - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
-        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
+        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4
         with:
            github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
            publish_dir: ./docs
-           publish_branch: gh-pages  # Ensure it deploys to the gh-pages branch
-           user_name: 'github-actions[bot]'
-           user_email: 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+           publish_branch: gh-pages
 
       - name: Test coverage
         run: |
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a1d6a61..4408d40 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -60,5 +60,4 @@ __pycache__/
 *.h5ad
 
 # generated website
-docs/
 docs
diff --git a/_pkgdown.yml b/_pkgdown.yml
index 782c121..0458869 100644
--- a/_pkgdown.yml
+++ b/_pkgdown.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors:
 
 home:
   title: "convert2anndata"
-  description: |
+  description: >
     An R package to convert SingeCellExperiment and Seurat objects into
     anndata as comprehensively as possible.
   path: README.md