diff --git a/lms/envs/devstack_docker.py b/lms/envs/devstack_docker.py
index 83c128a267..19bada8af3 100644
--- a/lms/envs/devstack_docker.py
+++ b/lms/envs/devstack_docker.py
@@ -86,3 +86,22 @@ SYSTEM_WIDE_ROLE_CLASSES.extend(['system_wide_roles.SystemWideRoleAssignment'])
 
 if FEATURES['ENABLE_ENTERPRISE_INTEGRATION']:
     SYSTEM_WIDE_ROLE_CLASSES.extend(['enterprise.SystemWideEnterpriseUserRoleAssignment'])
+
+########################## THEMING  #######################
+# If you want to enable theming in devstack, uncomment this section and add any relevant
+# theme directories to COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_DIRS
+
+# We have to import the private method here because production.py calls
+# derive_settings('lms.envs.production') which runs _make_mako_template_dirs with
+# the settings from production, which doesn't include these theming settings. Thus,
+# the templating engine is unable to find the themed templates because they don't exist
+# in it's path. Re-calling derive_settings doesn't work because the settings was already
+# changed from a function to a list, and it can't be derived again.
+
+# from .common import _make_mako_template_dirs
+# ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_THEMING = True
+# COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_DIRS = [
+#     "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/themes/"
+# ]
+# TEMPLATES[1]["DIRS"] = _make_mako_template_dirs
+# derive_settings(__name__)