diff --git a/docs/user-guide/configuration.md b/docs/user-guide/configuration.md
index e6c6434c..76652fe0 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/configuration.md
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Pages. This option can be overridden by a command line option in `gh-deploy`.
 Set the remote name to push to when using `gh-deploy` to deploy to Github Pages.
 This option can be overridden by a command line option in `gh-deploy`.
 
-**default**: `gh-pages`
+**default**: `origin`
 
 ## Documentation layout