diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
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+job:
+  script:
+    - bash misc/deploy_docs.sh
+  only:
+    - main
+  tags:
+    - droplets
+    - shell
diff --git a/misc/deploy_docs.sh b/misc/deploy_docs.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+## run on wenjie's droplets
+pkg=$(grep "Package" DESCRIPTION | awk '{print $NF}')
+build_dir=$(pwd)
+docs_repo=$HOME/wenjie/wwenjie.org
+target_dir=$docs_repo/static/$pkg
+tmp_log=.git_status.log
+
+## update docs by pkgdown
+make pkgdown
+
+# go to the repository for wwenjie.org
+cd $docs_repo
+git checkout -f
+git checkout main
+git pull origin main
+mkdir -p $target_dir
+cp -r $build_dir/docs/* $target_dir
+git status > $tmp_log
+cat $tmp_log
+if egrep -q "modified:[ ]+static/$pkg/" $tmp_log
+then
+    git add static/$pkg/
+    git commit -m "deploy $pkg $CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA by gitlab-runner"
+    git push origin main
+else
+    printf "The docs was not updated.\n"
+fi
+rm $tmp_log