# Folder exclusion

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/folder-exclusion/17233>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/folder-exclusion/17233 "2020-02-12T05:30:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mikeybinns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mikeybinns](https://community.localwp.com/u/mikeybinns)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/folder-exclusion/17233/1 "2020-02-12T05:30:51Z")

</div>

I would like to be able to exclude folders from exports of sites (namely node\_modules) as it greatly increases the time it takes to create the export and import the file.

This would also be useful for pushing to hosting.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![flyjack](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/flyjack/32/7328_2.png) [@flyjack](https://community.localwp.com/u/flyjack)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/folder-exclusion/17233/2 "2020-02-18T15:12:40Z")

</div>

Great idea! You can vote for that here: [https://localwp.canny.io/feature-requests/p/exclude-files-api](https://localwp.canny.io/feature-requests/p/exclude-files-api)