Title: Exclude Directory
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Exclude Directory

 *  [nonsensecreativity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonsensecreativity/)
 * (@nonsensecreativity)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directory-1/)
 * Is there a way to exclude directory like **node_modules**, which will be not 
   included in the release package?
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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directory-1/#post-7477775)
 * Hi! I don’t understand you. What do you mean?
 *  Thread Starter [nonsensecreativity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonsensecreativity/)
 * (@nonsensecreativity)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directory-1/#post-7477794)
 * When inspecting my plugin using plugin inspector, I have some of directories 
   that need to be exclude or else the inspector result will be too many.
 * The directory that I need to exclude is folder like node_modules which is used
   to help with development but will not be included in plugin distribution itself.
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directory-1/#post-7477869)
 * If you mean development environment, I can add special PHP constant to allow 
   you to define root of the directories to exclude. You may define it in the wp-
   config.php, for instance.
    You can get this ability with next release soon.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directory-1/#post-7477869)
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