Title: Exclusions!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Exclusions!

 *  [swaggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaggers/)
 * (@swaggers)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/)
 * Please tell me how to get exclusions to work with your plug-in.
 * I’ve tried the full name as given in the report:
 * /wp-content/bps-backup/logs/http_error_log.txt
 * just the file:
 * http_error_log.txt
 * Yet every single time it just keep showing up on the report. This and my sitemap
   change ALL the time and I need to get these excluded.
 * Also, when in Admin and your windows pops up to tell me something has changed
   and I need to clear it. PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE PLUG IN PAGE. I have lost so 
   much work on posts from your plug in pulling to the page just to tell me it did
   clear what I asked it to clear.
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 *  [Dane Morgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dane-morgan/)
 * (@dane-morgan)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/#post-4050222)
 * +1 on this issue. Across several sites, the file and folder exclusion list fails
   to exclude the listed files and folders.
 *  [shim.sim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shimsim/)
 * (@shimsim)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/#post-4050267)
 * +1 on this. could it be a syntax error in how we are listing the directories ?
 *  [shim.sim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shimsim/)
 * (@shimsim)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/#post-4050268)
 * OK, just noticed a post lower down that has this example. Will test again as 
   I didnt include the *
 * /full/path/to/folder/wp-content/backups/*
 *  [Kimberly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellogg9/)
 * (@kellogg9)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/#post-4050281)
 * If it helps anyone i looked at the code some time back and you can see that you
   can use wildcards (*) at the begin and end of your path…otherwise you should 
   include the full path (so that means including your site folder) to the file 
   you want to exclude.
 * Baffling why the author didnt mention this but after looking at the php code 
   i saw he was using a specific command that allows for either style.
 * The easiest is to just do something like:
 * *file_to_exclude*
 * Notice the use of “*” at the beginning and end. Doing it this way you dont need
   to include partial path.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclusions/#post-4050281)
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