Title: Exclude wp-content ??
Last modified: January 24, 2025

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# Exclude wp-content ??

 *  Resolved [Guyinpv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guyinpv/)
 * (@guyinpv)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-wp-content/)
 * This plugin will track and record FAR too much data when allowed to scan in the
   wp-content folder. All plugins and uploads etc. This can be hundreds and thousands
   of files whenever the site updates plugins or goes through maintenance chores.
 * I want to exclude wp-content entirely because I’m mostly interested in the core
   integrity scan and perhaps new files that may be added to web root so I can check
   them. I know it’s possible that a hacker file could be injected within wp-content
   but how would I ever notice anyway in a flood of thousands of other file updates?
   I’m not going to review 1000+ log entries one by one to see if something is suspicious.
 * It’s on the latest version 2.2.1.
 * See screenshot:
   [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q1pg0kwypav1lgefdvh5l/exclusion-doesnt-work.png?rlkey=oazawgtwx9nulpvy87etnynim&dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q1pg0kwypav1lgefdvh5l/exclusion-doesnt-work.png?rlkey=oazawgtwx9nulpvy87etnynim&dl=0)
 * Basically, the only thing I care about is strange new files going in places they
   shouldn’t be, or when critical files are updated/deleted like htaccess and wp-
   config. I can’t be tracking the uploads folder or plugins or themes. I don’t 
   want to track every file that changes in WP core unless it’s not supposed to 
   be there or doesn’t match official source files. I’m trying to configure this
   so that the only time I get alerted is because something important changed. A
   flood of 1000+ notices is not something I can look through for one suspicious
   thing. If the exclude folder list doesn’t work for wp-content, I can’t use this.
 * And further, all those file types are in the ignore list, it doesn’t seem to 
   help reduce the number of notifications. I read in the docs that “ignore” doesn’t
   even mean “ignore scanning”. They are STILL scanned but any kind of notice is
   ignored. What good is that? It’s using all this processing power just to not 
   show anything about it. It seems to me that ignore and exclude should be the 
   same thing. If I ignore/exclude something it’s because I don’t want to waste 
   processing time tracking it, nor receive alerts about it.
 * Help me understand!

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-wp-content/)
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