Theme config must be duplicated in site config
Theme config settings cannot be inherited from a site config, so users duplicate every theme setting in the site.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 30 September 2026 · last reported 21 October 2026
What's going wrong
Authors who build a Hugo theme and use it as a module find that a setting changed in the theme config has no effect until the same key is copied into the site config.
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