diff --git a/site/_docs/themes.md b/site/_docs/themes.md
index 55e14b4b..6fff61b2 100644
--- a/site/_docs/themes.md
+++ b/site/_docs/themes.md
@@ -94,3 +94,6 @@ Themes are published via [RubyGems.org](https://rubygems.org). You'll need a Rub
 2. Next, push your packaged theme up to the RubyGems service, by running the following command, again replacing `my-awesome-jekyll-theme` with the name of your theme:
 
         gem push my-awesome-jekyll-theme-*.gem
+
+3. To release a new version of your theme, simply update the version number in the gemspec file, ( `my-awesome-jekyll-theme.gemspec` in this example ), and then repeat Steps 1 & 2 above.
+We recommend that you follow [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) while bumping your theme-version.