diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index be49b2a4..0818b43a 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
-^docs$
 ^pkgdown$
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
diff --git a/.github/.gitignore b/.github/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c817eda..00000000
--- a/.github/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-*.html
-*.rds
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index fc7e9874..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
-# Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [develop]
-  # pull_request:
-  #  branches: [develop]
-  
-  # build and deploy when we publish a GitHub release
-  # release:
-  #  types: [published]
-  
-  # allow manual action trigger
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-name: pkgdown
-
-# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
-# Also, cancel in-progress runs.
-# concurrency:
-#   group: "pkgdown"
-#   cancel-in-progress: true
-  
-jobs:
-  pkgdown:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Only restrict concurrency for non-PR jobs
-    concurrency:
-      group: pkgdown-${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.run_id }}
-    env:
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
-        with:
-          use-public-rspm: true
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
-        with:
-          extra-packages: any::pkgdown, local::.
-          needs: website
-
-      - name: Build site
-        run: pkgdown::build_site_github_pages(dest_dir = "docs", new_process = TRUE, clean = TRUE, install = TRUE)
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: Deploy to GitHub pages 🚀
-        # Don’t deploy for pull requests
-        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4.5.0
-        with:
-          clean: true
-          branch: gh-pages
-          folder: docs
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 38f070cc..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-on:
-  issue_comment:
-    types: [created]
-name: Commands
-jobs:
-  document:
-    if: startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/document')
-    name: document
-    runs-on: macOS-latest
-    env:
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@develop
-        with:
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@develop
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "roxygen2"))' -e 'remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)'
-      - name: Document
-        run: Rscript -e 'roxygen2::roxygenise()'
-      - name: commit
-        run: |
-          git add man/\* NAMESPACE
-          git commit -m 'Document'
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-push@develop
-        with:
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-  style:
-    if: startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/style')
-    name: style
-    runs-on: macOS-latest
-    env:
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@develop
-        with:
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@develop
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages("styler")'
-      - name: Style
-        run: Rscript -e 'styler::style_pkg()'
-      - name: commit
-        run: |
-          git add \*.R
-          git commit -m 'Style'
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-push@develop
-        with:
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fa9cec06..fd15c58c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ TADA.Rproj
 _snaps
 
 testing_log.txt
+
+# for automated github actions
+*.html
+*.rds
diff --git a/_pkgdown.yml b/_pkgdown.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 00d92b56..00000000
--- a/_pkgdown.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url: "usepa.github.io/TADA/"
-template:
-  bootstrap: 5
-  bootswatch: cerulean