diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
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+++ b/README.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,70 @@ The server uses port 8000 by default. After starting the server point
 you browser to the url: localhost:8000.
 
 
+Customizing Configuration Settings
+----------------------------------
+
+Pelican has a plethora of setting; all configurable in file whose
+default name is 'pelicanconf.py.' Please refer to [the settings
+section](http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/settings.html) in the
+Pelican documentation.
+
+Here is the contents of pelicanconf.py used in the cwi project
+template. Observe that the 'THEME' setting is assigned the string
+'cwi'::
+
+    #!/usr/bin/env python
+    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #
+    from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+    AUTHOR = u'M.A. Guravage'
+    SITENAME = u'CWI Pelican Template'
+    SITEURL = ''
+
+    PATH = 'content'
+
+    TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Amsterdam'
+
+    DEFAULT_LANG = u'en'
+
+    # Feed generation is usually not desired when developing
+    FEED_ALL_ATOM = None
+    CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = None
+    TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM = None
+    AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None
+    AUTHOR_FEED_RSS = None
+
+    # Blogroll
+    LINKS = (('Pelican', 'http://getpelican.com/'),
+             ('Python.org', 'http://python.org/'),
+             ('Jinja2', 'http://jinja.pocoo.org/'),)
+
+    # Social widget
+    SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/CWInl'),
+              ('github', 'http://github.com'),)
+
+    STATIC_PATHS = ['static', 'images', 'extras/.htaccess', 'extras/.htpassword']
+    PAGE_PATHS = ['pages','news', 'private']
+    ARTICLE_PATHS = ['blog']
+
+    DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10
+    THEME = 'cwi'
+    USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY = True
+    DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = False
+    DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = True
+    LOAD_CONTENT_CACHE = False
+
+    EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = {
+        'extras/.htaccess': {'path': 'pages/.htaccess'},
+        'extras/.htpassword': {'path': 'pages/.htpassword'}
+        }
+
+    # Uncomment following line if you want document-relative URLs when developing
+    #RELATIVE_URLS = True
+
+    # finis
+
+
 Uploading the generated HTML to a server
 ----------------------------------------
 
@@ -303,5 +367,4 @@ Pelican Documentation
 =====================
 
 You will find answers to all your Pelican questions in the Pelican
-documentation. You will find the Pelican documentation at
-com/en/3.5.0.
+documentation. You will find the Pelican documentation at http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/.