diff --git a/.git_archival.txt b/.git_archival.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c51009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git_archival.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+node: $Format:%H$
+node-date: $Format:%cI$
+describe-name: $Format:%(describe:tags=true,match=*[0-9]*)$
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00a7b00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.git_archival.txt  export-subst
diff --git a/codecov.yml b/codecov.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e460ba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codecov.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+comment:
+  false
+
+# When modifying this file, please validate using
+# curl -X POST --data-binary @codecov.yml https://codecov.io/validate
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 3a2d29f..303cc01 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@
 
 myst_enable_extensions = ["dollarmath", "amsmath"]
 
+def is_non_standard_version(version):
+    """
+    Determine if the given version string has more than 3 components (e.g., from a developer version).
+    """
+
+    return len(version.split(".")) != 3
+
 # based on pandas doc/source/conf.py
 def linkcode_resolve(domain, info):
     """Determine the URL corresponding to Python object."""
@@ -136,10 +143,10 @@ def linkcode_resolve(domain, info):
 
     fn = os.path.relpath(fn, start=os.path.dirname(plasticparcels.__file__))
 
-    if "-" in plasticparcels.__version__:
-        return f"https://github.com/OceanParcels/plasticparcels/blob/master/plasticparcels/{fn}{linespec}"
+    if is_non_standard_version(plasticparcels.__version__):
+        return f"https://github.com/OceanParcels/plasticparcels/blob/main/plasticparcels/{fn}{linespec}"
     else:
         return (
             f"https://github.com/OceanParcels/plasticparcels/blob/"
-            f"{plasticparcels.__version__}/plasticparcels/{fn}{linespec}"
+            f"v{plasticparcels.__version__}/plasticparcels/{fn}{linespec}"
         )
diff --git a/plasticparcels/__init__.py b/plasticparcels/__init__.py
index 33ee3f8..f2caa7e 100644
--- a/plasticparcels/__init__.py
+++ b/plasticparcels/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@
 from plasticparcels.particlefile import *  # noqa
 from plasticparcels.utils import *  # noqa
 
-from plasticparcels._version_setup import __version__, __version_tuple__  # noqa
+try:
+    from plasticparcels._version_setup import __version__  # noqa
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "unknown"