# Documentation theme

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652 "2016-07-09T14:18:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![banyanvines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@banyanvines](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/banyanvines)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/1 "2016-07-09T14:18:24Z")

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Can someone suggest a nice theme for writing documentation using hugo? Something like [http://idratherbewriting.com/documentation-theme-jekyll/](http://idratherbewriting.com/documentation-theme-jekyll/) for example. I didn’t find anything except bootie docs theme.

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**Author:** ![moorereason](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/moorereason/32/592_2.png) [@moorereason](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/moorereason)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/2 "2016-07-09T14:46:08Z")

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There are sites that have used Hugo for docs, but I don’t think they’ve published a standalone theme on Hugo’s theme gallery…and I can’t seem to find links to them now. You can check out this Github issue where we discussed changing Hugo’s docs theme:

> <https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1725>

Cc: @digitalcraftsman

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**Author:** ![bep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bep/32/3332_2.png) [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/3 "2016-07-09T14:51:51Z")

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Also see

[http://themes.gohugo.io/tags/documentation](http://themes.gohugo.io/tags/documentation)

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**Author:** ![digitalcraftsman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/digitalcraftsman/32/4142_2.png) [@digitalcraftsman](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/digitalcraftsman)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/4 "2016-07-09T15:37:53Z")

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The only standalone documentation themes I currently know can be found in the theme gallery (see link in the post above).

There is also a [another thread](https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/hugo-as-a-documentation-tool) about Hugo as a documentation tool.

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**Author:** ![lws](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/lws/32/1825_2.png) [@lws](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/lws)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/5 "2016-07-10T06:43:09Z")

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I’ve searched around a bit for documentation themes. I put my findings in the main thread: [https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/hugo-as-a-documentation-tool/112/39](https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/hugo-as-a-documentation-tool/112/39)

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**Author:** ![banyanvines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@banyanvines](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/banyanvines)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/documentation-theme/3652/6 "2016-07-11T22:25:34Z")

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Thanks for all the response. Google found another [http://vamp.io/documentation/](http://vamp.io/documentation/) . This isn’t abstracted as a theme I can take and reuse either. Search function will also be super helpful, though there seems to be an effort to develop that.