# Creating Hugo Themes - Documentation?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/creating-hugo-themes-documentation/18992>\
**Category:** Using Themes\
**Created:** [May 31, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/creating-hugo-themes-documentation/18992 "2019-05-31T19:07:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![SiteBakery](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/sitebakery/32/8831_2.png) [@SiteBakery](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/SiteBakery)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/creating-hugo-themes-documentation/18992/1 "2019-05-31T19:07:22Z")

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Hi there,

I’m completely new to Hugo at the moment and while I can find a lot of material on working with Hugo if you are using a pre-made theme, I’m struggling to find any complete documentation or tutorials on creating your own themes from scratch. I’ve just been piecing bits and pieces together from various blog posts etc so far.

Given the number of themes available for Hugo, I’m assuming there are good references out there, but perhaps I’m just not looking in the right places.

Any useful material, resources, documentation or tutorials you can point me to would be amazingly helpful.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![maiki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/maiki/32/16384_2.png) [@maiki](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/maiki)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/creating-hugo-themes-documentation/18992/2 "2019-06-01T02:54:13Z")

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> **[Templates](https://gohugo.io/templates/)**
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> Go templating, template types and lookup order, shortcodes, and data.

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**Author:** ![marcia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/marcia/32/7076_2.png) [@marcia](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/marcia)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/creating-hugo-themes-documentation/18992/3 "2019-06-16T14:19:02Z")

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Good info here:

> [@TGIH: Themeless and Gitless Introduction to Hugo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/tgih-themeless-and-gitless-introduction-to-hugo/19097):
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> [My web site](https://www.ii.com/) is now – after a few years of experiments crazy_face – based on Hugo and Asciidoctor. My first new long article is about Hugo and is called: &nbsp; [TGIH: Themeless and Gitless Introduction to Hugo](https://www.ii.com/themeless-gitless-intro-hugo/) Here’s an excerpt from the beginning: In the steps below, we use the static site generator Hugo to create a simple web site that… does not require any understanding of Hugo’s [lookup order](https://gohugo.io/templates/lookup-order/), does not use a themes directory, which makes it easier to satisfy goal #1, does not require git, a…