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@@ -156,7 +156,19 @@ Depending on your specified footer behavior, the sign up form either will appear
 
 ## Removing content
 
-Since this template have a lot of content, you may want to delete some of it. Here is a list of the main components that you may want to delete, and how to do it. Don't forget if you delete a page, to update the `nav_order` of the remaining pages.
+Since this template have a lot of content, you may want to remove some of it. The easiest way to achieve this and avoid merge conflicts when updating your code (as [pointed by CheariX ](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/pull/2933#issuecomment-2571271117)) is to add the unwanted files to the `excludes` section in your `_config.yml` file instead of actually deleting them, for example:
+
+```yml
+excludes:
+   ...
+  - _news/announcement_*.md
+  - _pages/blog.md
+  - _posts/
+  - _projects/?_project.md
+  - assets/jupyter/blog.ipynb
+```
+
+Here is a list of the main components that you may want to delete, and how to do it. Don't forget if you delete a page to update the `nav_order` of the remaining pages.
 
 ### Removing the blog page