HTML files in static paths not being copied over

[scpedicini]

I checked through the documentation and noticed this:

*In the default configuration, all files with a valid content file suffix (.html, .rst, .md, …) get processed by the article and page generators before the static generator. This is avoided by altering the _EXCLUDE settings appropriately.

The issue is I have a STATIC_PATH set to a folder called "other", I need every single file and folder within that directory to be copied over in an unaltered state to the corresponding output folder when I build, and unfortunately it copies over every single file except for the HTML files.

Is there anyway I can disable the rst/markdown/html preprocessor for explicitly designated static paths?

[scpedicini]

On further reading of the documentation, it almost sounds like I can add the path of other into both the article exclude and page exclude and that should solve the issue.

[justinmayer]

Do you have any HTML files in your source content? If not, have a look at the READERS setting in the Settings section of the documentation. To wit:

READERS = {'html': None}

[scpedicini]

@justinmayer oh I see. yeah all my "content" files are standard markdown. It's only the static folder that has some HTML files. This requirement came up recently because I build a lot of "interactive embeds" and the easiest way to integrate them into my pelican site is to keep them completely hands off from pelican and link them in the content level markdown note using an iframe.

Additionally, it looks like adding the other folder to my exclusions (page, article) also seems to work~

Thanks!