diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 6ed0e22b1..bf775d755 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "url:"
   The Apache Accumulo™ sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable,
   high performance data storage and retrieval system.
 url: "https://accumulo.apache.org" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
-exclude: [/vendor, /.idea, /.git, /.github, /_site, /.sass-cache, /.jekyll-cache/, /.jekyll-metadata, /*.iml, /.bundle/, Dockerfile]
+exclude: [/vendor, /.idea, /.git, /.github, /*.iml, /.bundle/, Dockerfile]
 latest_release: 2.1.2
 javadoc_version: 2.1.2
 num_home_posts: 5