# A theme for a documentation website

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352>\
**Category:** Themes\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352 "2019-03-20T00:01:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mahdix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mahdix/32/2824_2.png) [@mahdix](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mahdix)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352/1 "2019-03-20T00:01:06Z")

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Hey,

I’m looking for a simple theme for a website which is supposed to provide documentation about an open source software project. What I need is a hierarchical tree on the left side bar which can be used to navigate in the website. Example: [https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/)

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**Author:** ![dsecareanu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dsecareanu/32/413_2.png) [@dsecareanu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dsecareanu)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352/2 "2019-03-20T07:20:35Z")

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Hey,

You can checkout Ghost Theme Marketplace here:

> **[Ghost Themes - The Marketplace](https://ghost.org/themes/)**
>
> Discover beautiful professional themes for the Ghost publishing platform. Custom templates for magazines, blogs, news websites, content marketing & more!

[https://royce.justgoodthemes.com/](https://royce.justgoodthemes.com/) - could be an option (side menu), but is more blog style rather than documentation, but with some dynamic routing you could probably make it work.

[https://editorial.ghost.io/](https://editorial.ghost.io/) - could also be an option

[https://paperleaf.nvslbs.com/](https://paperleaf.nvslbs.com/) - also a possible option

Or you can search on [themeforest.net](http://themeforest.net) for a Ghost theme that suits your needs.

I don’t think there’s a theme ready made for doc sites purposes except [docs.ghost.org](http://docs.ghost.org) theme, but that’s a bit more complicated and works on gatsbyjs as a frontend.  
[GitHub - TryGhost/docs: Ghost's official documentation](https://github.com/TryGhost/docs)

But you can always ask the theme developers on this forum to give you a hand on creating such a theme.

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**Author:** ![themeix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/themeix/32/4472_2.png) [@themeix](https://forum.ghost.org/u/themeix)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352/3 "2019-11-09T06:17:52Z")

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If you still need the ghost theme for documentation, you may try [Doxy - Knowledgebase & Documentation Ghost Theme](https://themeix.com/product/doxy-knowledgebase-documentation-ghost-theme/)

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**Author:** ![Spiritix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/spiritix/32/26445_2.png) [@Spiritix](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Spiritix)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352/4 "2023-09-20T21:27:52Z")

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Just in case someone is still looking, take a look at our new theme **Doks** :

Demo: [https://doks.spiritix.co](https://doks.spiritix.co)

 ![Doks theme](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/6/0/60cf8098a2f4eda653d1e9f3530b5fa49e7530a3.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![shtefcs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/shtefcs/32/33825_2.png) [@shtefcs](https://forum.ghost.org/u/shtefcs)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/a-theme-for-a-documentation-website/6352/5 "2024-12-17T12:47:57Z")

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looks beautiful, but its expensive in my case. $150 is a bit to step right now.

I would pay $50-$60 max.