diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b910d732..92b90466 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Imports:
     loo (>= 2.3.1),
     rstantools (>= 2.1.1),
     bayesplot (>= 1.5.0),
+    ggplot2 (>= 2.0.0),
     matrixStats,
     parallel,
     pbapply,
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@ Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
 Suggests: 
     cmdstanr (>= 0.4.0),
-    ggplot2 (>= 2.0.0),
     knitr, 
     collapse,
     rmarkdown, 
diff --git a/R/conditional_effects.R b/R/conditional_effects.R
index 4888ae44..b0b759ec 100644
--- a/R/conditional_effects.R
+++ b/R/conditional_effects.R
@@ -55,6 +55,16 @@
 #'
 #' # Plot all main effects on the link scale
 #' plot(conditional_effects(mod, type = 'link'), ask = FALSE)
+#'
+#' # Works the same for smooth terms
+#' set.seed(0)
+#' dat <- mgcv::gamSim(1, n = 200, scale = 2)
+#' dat$time <- 1:NROW(dat)
+#' mod <- mvgam(y ~ s(x0) + s(x1) + s(x2) + s(x3),
+#'             data = dat,
+#'             family = gaussian())
+#' conditional_effects(mod)
+#' conditional_effects(mod, conf_level = 0.5, type = 'link')
 #' }
 #' @export
 conditional_effects.mvgam = function(x,
diff --git a/man/conditional_effects.mvgam.Rd b/man/conditional_effects.mvgam.Rd
index dc286bca..9b491b48 100644
--- a/man/conditional_effects.mvgam.Rd
+++ b/man/conditional_effects.mvgam.Rd
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ plot(conditional_effects(mod, conf_level = 0.7), ask = FALSE)
 
 # Plot all main effects on the link scale
 plot(conditional_effects(mod, type = 'link'), ask = FALSE)
+
+# Works the same for smooth terms
+set.seed(0)
+dat <- mgcv::gamSim(1, n = 200, scale = 2)
+dat$time <- 1:NROW(dat)
+mod <- mvgam(y ~ s(x0) + s(x1) + s(x2) + s(x3),
+            data = dat,
+            family = gaussian())
+conditional_effects(mod)
+conditional_effects(mod, conf_level = 0.5, type = 'link')
 }
 }
 \author{