diff --git a/docs/.vitepress/config.ts b/docs/.vitepress/config.ts
index e62d3c97..d1428ed1 100644
--- a/docs/.vitepress/config.ts
+++ b/docs/.vitepress/config.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { defineConfig } from '../../src/node'
 
+import { version } from '../../package.json'
+
 export default defineConfig({
   lang: 'en-US',
   title: 'VitePress',
@@ -48,9 +50,18 @@ function nav() {
     { text: 'Guide', link: '/guide/what-is-vitepress', activeMatch: '/guide/' },
     { text: 'Configs', link: '/config/introduction', activeMatch: '/config/' },
     {
-      text: 'Changelog',
-      link: 'https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'
-    }
+      text: version,
+      items: [
+        {
+          text: 'Changelog',
+          link: 'https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'
+        },
+        {
+          text: 'Contributing',
+          link: 'https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress/blob/main/.github/contributing.md'
+        },
+      ],
+    },
   ]
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/config/theme-configs.md b/docs/config/theme-configs.md
index 4ebfdc87..eb40afdf 100644
--- a/docs/config/theme-configs.md
+++ b/docs/config/theme-configs.md
@@ -247,9 +247,33 @@ export default {
 
 ```ts
 export interface CarbonAds {
-  code: string,
+  code: string
   placement: string
 }
 ```
 
 Learn more in [Theme: Carbon Ads](../guide/theme-carbon-ads)
+
+## docFooter
+
+- Type: `DocFooter`
+
+Can be used to customize text appearing above previous and next links. Helpful if not writing docs in English.
+
+```js
+export default {
+  themeConfig: {
+    docFooter: {
+      prev: 'Pagina prior',
+      next: 'Proxima pagina'
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```ts
+export interface DocFooter {
+  prev?: string
+  next?: string
+}
+```
diff --git a/docs/guide/theme-nav.md b/docs/guide/theme-nav.md
index 92413974..81575e9b 100644
--- a/docs/guide/theme-nav.md
+++ b/docs/guide/theme-nav.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export default {
 }
 ```
 
-The `text` is the actual text displayed in nav, and the `link` is the link that will be navigated to when the text is clicked. For the link, set path to the actual file without `.md` prefix, and alsways start with `/`.
+The `text` is the actual text displayed in nav, and the `link` is the link that will be navigated to when the text is clicked. For the link, set path to the actual file without `.md` prefix, and always start with `/`.
 
 Nav links can also be dropdown menus. To do this, set `items` key on link option.
 
diff --git a/docs/guide/theme-prev-next-link.md b/docs/guide/theme-prev-next-link.md
index c248d1f3..e52f9057 100644
--- a/docs/guide/theme-prev-next-link.md
+++ b/docs/guide/theme-prev-next-link.md
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
 # Prev Next Link
 
-Documentation coming soon...
+You can customize the text of previous and next links. This is helpful if you want to show different text on previous/next links than what you have on your sidebar.
+
+## prev
+
+- Type: `string`
+
+- Details:
+
+  Specify the text to show on the link to the previous page.
+
+  If you don't set this in frontmatter, the text will be inferred from the sidebar config.
+
+- Example:
+
+```yaml
+---
+prev: 'Get Started | Markdown'
+---
+```
+
+## next
+
+- Type: `string`
+
+- Details:
+
+  Same as `prev` but for the next page.
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/Layout.vue b/src/client/theme-default/Layout.vue
index 7af05e9d..5087ee46 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/Layout.vue
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/Layout.vue
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
-import { provide } from 'vue'
+import { provide, watch } from 'vue'
+import { useRoute } from 'vitepress'
 import { useSidebar, useCloseSidebarOnEscape } from './composables/sidebar'
 import VPSkipLink from './components/VPSkipLink.vue'
 import VPBackdrop from './components/VPBackdrop.vue'
@@ -15,6 +16,9 @@ const {
   close: closeSidebar
 } = useSidebar()
 
+const route = useRoute()
+watch(() => route.path, closeSidebar)
+
 useCloseSidebarOnEscape(isSidebarOpen, closeSidebar)
 
 provide('close-sidebar', closeSidebar)
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDoc.vue b/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDoc.vue
index f7a9c17c..c5576678 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDoc.vue
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDoc.vue
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
+import { computed } from 'vue'
 import { useRoute } from 'vitepress'
 import { useSidebar } from '../composables/sidebar'
 import VPDocAside from './VPDocAside.vue'
 import VPDocFooter from './VPDocFooter.vue'
 
-const { path } = useRoute()
+const route = useRoute()
 const { hasSidebar } = useSidebar()
 
-const pageName = path.replace(/[./]+/g, '_').replace(/_html$/, '')
+const pageName = computed(() =>
+  route.path.replace(/[./]+/g, '_').replace(/_html$/, '')
+)
 </script>
 
 <template>
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDocFooter.vue b/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDocFooter.vue
index 5f1679ec..b01cd414 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDocFooter.vue
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/components/VPDocFooter.vue
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ const hasLastUpdated = computed(() => {
     <div v-if="control.prev || control.next" class="prev-next">
       <div class="pager">
         <a v-if="control.prev" class="pager-link prev" :href="normalizeLink(control.prev.link, site.cleanUrls)">
-          <span class="desc">Previous page</span>
+          <span class="desc">{{ theme.docFooter?.prev ?? 'Previous page' }}</span>
           <span class="title">{{ control.prev.text }} </span>
         </a>
       </div>
       <div class="pager" :class="{ 'has-prev': control.prev }">
         <a v-if="control.next" class="pager-link next" :href="normalizeLink(control.next.link, site.cleanUrls)">
-          <span class="desc">Next page</span>
+          <span class="desc">{{ theme.docFooter?.next ?? 'Next page' }}</span>
           <span class="title">{{ control.next.text }}</span>
         </a>
       </div>
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/composables/nav.ts b/src/client/theme-default/composables/nav.ts
index 4d24c01c..e3cf686b 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/composables/nav.ts
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/composables/nav.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { DefaultTheme } from 'vitepress/theme'
-import { ref, computed } from 'vue'
+import { ref, computed, watch } from 'vue'
 import { useData, useRoute } from 'vitepress'
 
 export function useNav() {
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ export function useNav() {
     window.outerWidth >= 768 && closeScreen()
   }
 
+  const route = useRoute()
+  watch(() => route.path, closeScreen)
+
   return {
     isScreenOpen,
     openScreen,
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/composables/prev-next.ts b/src/client/theme-default/composables/prev-next.ts
index e09cb0e0..0e97e695 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/composables/prev-next.ts
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/composables/prev-next.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { isActive } from '../support/utils'
 import { getSidebar, getFlatSideBarLinks } from '../support/sidebar'
 
 export function usePrevNext() {
-  const { page, theme } = useData()
+  const { page, theme, frontmatter } = useData()
 
   return computed(() => {
     const sidebar = getSidebar(theme.value.sidebar, page.value.relativePath)
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@ export function usePrevNext() {
     })
 
     return {
-      prev: candidates[index - 1],
-      next: candidates[index + 1]
+      prev: frontmatter.value.prev
+        ? { ...candidates[index - 1], text: frontmatter.value.prev }
+        : candidates[index - 1],
+      next: frontmatter.value.next
+        ? { ...candidates[index + 1], text: frontmatter.value.next }
+        : candidates[index + 1]
     }
   })
 }
diff --git a/src/client/theme-default/composables/sidebar.ts b/src/client/theme-default/composables/sidebar.ts
index 40f725c8..7baedde4 100644
--- a/src/client/theme-default/composables/sidebar.ts
+++ b/src/client/theme-default/composables/sidebar.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { Ref, ref, computed, watchEffect, onMounted, onUnmounted } from 'vue'
-import { useRoute, useData } from 'vitepress'
+import { computed, onMounted, onUnmounted, Ref, ref, watchEffect } from 'vue'
+import { useData, useRoute } from 'vitepress'
 import { getSidebar } from '../support/sidebar'
 
 export function useSidebar() {
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ export function useSidebar() {
 
   const sidebar = computed(() => {
     const sidebarConfig = theme.value.sidebar
-    const relativePath = route.data.relativePath
-
-    return sidebarConfig ? getSidebar(sidebarConfig, relativePath) : []
+    return sidebarConfig ? getSidebar(sidebarConfig, route.path) : []
   })
 
   const hasSidebar = computed(() => {
diff --git a/src/node/markdownToVue.ts b/src/node/markdownToVue.ts
index d974f9b2..01dd1f2b 100644
--- a/src/node/markdownToVue.ts
+++ b/src/node/markdownToVue.ts
@@ -35,14 +35,7 @@ export async function createMarkdownToVueRenderFn(
 
   pages = pages.map((p) => slash(p.replace(/\.md$/, '')))
 
-  const userDefineRegex = userDefines
-    ? new RegExp(
-        `\\b(${Object.keys(userDefines)
-          .map((key) => key.replace(/[-[\]/{}()*+?.\\^$|]/g, '\\$&'))
-          .join('|')})`,
-        'g'
-      )
-    : null
+  const replaceRegex = genReplaceRegexp(userDefines, isBuild)
 
   return async (
     src: string,
@@ -75,24 +68,9 @@ export async function createMarkdownToVueRenderFn(
     md.__path = file
     md.__relativePath = relativePath
 
-    let html = md.render(content)
+    const html = md.render(content)
     const data = md.__data
 
-    if (isBuild) {
-      // avoid env variables being replaced by vite
-      html = html
-        .replace(/\bimport\.meta/g, 'import.<wbr/>meta')
-        .replace(/\bprocess\.env/g, 'process.<wbr/>env')
-
-      // also avoid replacing vite user defines
-      if (userDefineRegex) {
-        html = html.replace(
-          userDefineRegex,
-          (_) => `${_[0]}<wbr/>${_.slice(1)}`
-        )
-      }
-    }
-
     // validate data.links
     const deadLinks: string[] = []
     const recordDeadLink = (url: string) => {
@@ -150,8 +128,14 @@ export async function createMarkdownToVueRenderFn(
     }
 
     const vueSrc =
-      genPageDataCode(data.hoistedTags || [], pageData).join('\n') +
-      `\n<template><div>${html}</div></template>`
+      genPageDataCode(data.hoistedTags || [], pageData, replaceRegex).join(
+        '\n'
+      ) +
+      `\n<template><div>${replaceConstants(
+        html,
+        replaceRegex,
+        vueTemplateBreaker
+      )}</div></template>`
 
     debug(`[render] ${file} in ${Date.now() - start}ms.`)
 
@@ -172,10 +156,42 @@ const scriptSetupRE = /<\s*script[^>]*\bsetup\b[^>]*/
 const scriptClientRE = /<\s*script[^>]*\bclient\b[^>]*/
 const defaultExportRE = /((?:^|\n|;)\s*)export(\s*)default/
 const namedDefaultExportRE = /((?:^|\n|;)\s*)export(.+)as(\s*)default/
+const jsStringBreaker = '\u200b'
+const vueTemplateBreaker = '<wbr>'
+
+function genReplaceRegexp(
+  userDefines: Record<string, any> = {},
+  isBuild: boolean
+): RegExp {
+  // `process.env` need to be handled in both dev and build
+  // @see https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/cad27ee8c00bbd5aeeb2be9bfb3eb164c1b77885/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/clientInjections.ts#L57-L64
+  const replacements = ['process.env']
+  if (isBuild) {
+    replacements.push('import.meta', ...Object.keys(userDefines))
+  }
+  return new RegExp(
+    `\\b(${replacements
+      .map((key) => key.replace(/[-[\]/{}()*+?.\\^$|]/g, '\\$&'))
+      .join('|')})`,
+    'g'
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * To avoid env variables being replaced by vite:
+ * - insert `'\u200b'` char into those strings inside js string (page data)
+ * - insert `<wbr>` tag into those strings inside html string (vue template)
+ *
+ * @see https://vitejs.dev/guide/env-and-mode.html#production-replacement
+ */
+function replaceConstants(str: string, replaceRegex: RegExp, breaker: string) {
+  return str.replace(replaceRegex, (_) => `${_[0]}${breaker}${_.slice(1)}`)
+}
 
-function genPageDataCode(tags: string[], data: PageData) {
+function genPageDataCode(tags: string[], data: PageData, replaceRegex: RegExp) {
+  const dataJson = JSON.stringify(data)
   const code = `\nexport const __pageData = JSON.parse(${JSON.stringify(
-    JSON.stringify(data)
+    replaceConstants(dataJson, replaceRegex, jsStringBreaker)
   )})`
 
   const existingScriptIndex = tags.findIndex((tag) => {
diff --git a/types/default-theme.d.ts b/types/default-theme.d.ts
index f19f4395..2faa0889 100644
--- a/types/default-theme.d.ts
+++ b/types/default-theme.d.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ export namespace DefaultTheme {
      */
     lastUpdatedText?: string
 
+    /**
+     * Set custom prev/next labels.
+     */
+    docFooter?: DocFooter
+
     /**
      * The social links to be displayed at the end of the nav bar. Perfect for
      * placing links to social services such as GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
@@ -157,6 +162,24 @@ export namespace DefaultTheme {
     text?: string
   }
 
+  // prev-next -----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  export interface DocFooter {
+    /**
+     * Custom label for previous page button.
+     *
+     * @default 'Previous page'
+     */
+    prev?: string
+
+    /**
+     * Custom label for next page button.
+     *
+     * @default 'Next page'
+     */
+    next?: string
+  }
+
   // social link ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
   export interface SocialLink {