diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7cf9e4a85e..7a49feab6a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 config.yml
 config.yaml
 !docs/config.yml
+docs/themes/
 *.db
 Run
 dist/
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index 9389d58742..0000000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "docs/themes/vikunja"]
-	path = docs/themes/vikunja
-	url = ../theme.git
diff --git a/docs/themes/vikunja b/docs/themes/vikunja
deleted file mode 160000
index 1ebcbbb645..0000000000
--- a/docs/themes/vikunja
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 1ebcbbb645ad20ea683feef2804314a6c658799b