diff --git a/docs/_templates/footer.html b/docs/_templates/footer.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fd0f127d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/_templates/footer.html
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+<footer>
+  {% if (theme_prev_next_buttons_location == 'bottom' or theme_prev_next_buttons_location == 'both') and (next or prev) %}
+    <div class="rst-footer-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="footer navigation">
+      {% if next %}
+        <a href="{{ next.link|e }}" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="{{ next.title|striptags|e }}" accesskey="n" rel="next">{{ _('Next') }} <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></span></a>
+      {% endif %}
+      {% if prev %}
+        <a href="{{ prev.link|e }}" class="btn btn-neutral" title="{{ prev.title|striptags|e }}" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></span> {{ _('Previous') }}</a>
+      {% endif %}
+    </div>
+  {% endif %}
+
+  <hr/>
+
+  <div role="contentinfo">
+    <p>
+    <span class="copyright">
+    &copy; Copyright 2014-2018 - The Certbot software and documentation are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license as described at <a href="https://eff.org/cb-license">https://eff.org/cb-license</a>.
+    </span>
+    <br>
+    <br>
+    <span class="status">
+        <a href="https://letsencrypt.status.io/">Let's Encrypt Status</a>
+    </span>
+
+    {%- if build_id and build_url %}
+      {% trans build_url=build_url, build_id=build_id %}
+        <span class="build">
+          Build
+          <a href="{{ build_url }}">{{ build_id }}</a>.
+        </span>
+      {% endtrans %}
+    {%- elif commit %}
+      {% trans commit=commit %}
+        <span class="commit">
+          Revision <code>{{ commit }}</code>.
+        </span>
+      {% endtrans %}
+    {%- elif last_updated %}
+      {% trans last_updated=last_updated|e %}Last updated on {{ last_updated }}.{% endtrans %}
+    {%- endif %}
+
+    </p>
+  </div>
+
+  {%- if show_sphinx %}
+  {% trans %}Built with <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> using a <a href="https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme">theme</a> provided by <a href="https://readthedocs.org">Read the Docs</a>{% endtrans %}.
+  {%- endif %}
+
+  {%- block extrafooter %} {% endblock %}
+
+</footer>
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 73df47dbd..09bb44285 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'Certbot'
-copyright = u'2014-2016 - The Certbot software and documentation are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license as described at https://eff.org/cb-license '
+# this is now overridden by the footer.html template
+#copyright = u'2014-2018 - The Certbot software and documentation are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license as described at https://eff.org/cb-license.'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the