diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index cea432f1f..76ac07f34 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ encoding: UTF-8
 
 # Build settings
 
-exclude: ["**/index.html", "**/archive", "**/c64", "logs", "node_modules", "projects", "src", "**/src", "tmp", "**/tmp", "videos", "web", ".git", ".idea"]
+exclude: ["index.html", "**/index.html", "**/archive", "**/c64", "logs", "node_modules", "projects", "**/private", "src", "**/src", "tmp", "**/tmp", "videos", "web", ".git", ".idea"]
 markdown: kramdown
 kramdown:
   input: GFM