diff --git a/docs/server/source/appendices/consensus.rst b/docs/server/source/appendices/consensus.rst
index 837e81d5..34c0c032 100644
--- a/docs/server/source/appendices/consensus.rst
+++ b/docs/server/source/appendices/consensus.rst
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@ Consensus
 #########
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.consensus
-    :members:
diff --git a/docs/server/source/appendices/pipelines.rst b/docs/server/source/appendices/pipelines.rst
index 2685d2d3..98b993a1 100644
--- a/docs/server/source/appendices/pipelines.rst
+++ b/docs/server/source/appendices/pipelines.rst
@@ -6,32 +6,27 @@ Block Creation
 ==============
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.pipelines.block
-    :members:
 
 
 Block Voting
 ============
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.pipelines.vote
-    :members:
 
 
 Block Status
 ============
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.pipelines.election
-    :members:
 
 
 Stale Transaction Monitoring
 ============================
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.pipelines.stale
-    :members:
 
 
 Utilities
 =========
 
 .. automodule:: bigchaindb.pipelines.utils
-    :members:
diff --git a/docs/server/source/appendices/the-Bigchain-class.rst b/docs/server/source/appendices/the-Bigchain-class.rst
index d9e6744c..9b88d5dd 100644
--- a/docs/server/source/appendices/the-Bigchain-class.rst
+++ b/docs/server/source/appendices/the-Bigchain-class.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ The Bigchain class
 The Bigchain class is the top-level Python API for BigchainDB. If you want to create and initialize a BigchainDB database, you create a Bigchain instance (object). Then you can use its various methods to create transactions, write transactions (to the object/database), read transactions, etc.
 
 .. autoclass:: bigchaindb.Bigchain
-   :members:
 
    .. automethod:: bigchaindb.core.Bigchain.__init__
diff --git a/docs/server/source/conf.py b/docs/server/source/conf.py
index 93402f75..f4951235 100644
--- a/docs/server/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/server/source/conf.py
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ extensions = [
 
 # autodoc settings
 autodoc_member_order = 'bysource'
+autodoc_default_flags = [
+    'members',
+]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']