Content filtering

Configure content filtering from the Flowershow dashboard under Site Settings → Content, or using config.json if you prefer to version-control your settings or manage them via an automated workflow.

Include paths

Go to Settings → Content → Content Include and enter an array of paths to include in your published site:

[
  "/blog",
  "README.md"
]

Leave this field empty to include all files by default. If set, only the listed paths are published — no other files or directories will be included.

Exclude paths

Go to Settings → Content → Content Exclude and enter an array of paths to exclude from your published site:

[
  "/drafts",
  "private.md"
]

Exclude rules take precedence over include rules, so you can use both fields together — for example, to publish only /blog while excluding a subdirectory within it:

Content Include:

["/blog", "README.md"]

Content Exclude:

["/blog/_archive"]

This publishes everything in /blog and README.md, but skips /blog/_archive.

Hide paths

Go to Settings → Content → Content Hide and enter an array of paths to keep published but hidden from the sidebar and search results:

[
  "/docs/people",
  "/docs/internal"
]

Hidden pages are still synced, published, and accessible by URL — they just won't appear in the sidebar or search. This is useful for content like author profiles or reference pages that shouldn't clutter navigation.

contentExclude vs contentHide

Page-level control

Exclude a specific page using publish: false in its frontmatter:

---
title: "Draft Post"
publish: false
---

Rules

• Exclude rules take precedence over include rules
• Paths are relative to the content root directory
• Directory paths include all subdirectories
• Glob patterns are not supported

Using config.json

If you want to version-control your configuration, or have your editor's AI agent manage settings without touching the dashboard, you can define everything in config.json instead. Values set in config.json take precedence over dashboard settings.

{
  "contentInclude": [
    "/blog",
    "README.md"
  ],
  "contentExclude": [
    "/blog/_archive",
    "private.md"
  ],
  "contentHide": [
    "/docs/people",
    "/docs/internal"
  ]
}

• contentInclude: Array of paths to include. If omitted, all files are included by default.
• contentExclude: Array of paths to exclude entirely. Exclude rules take precedence over include rules.
• contentHide: Array of paths to keep published but hidden from sidebar and search.