# Controlling what counts as a page/post
**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/controlling-what-counts-as-a-page-post/9748
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 8:17am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/controlling-what-counts-as-a-page-post/9748 "2025-03-01T08:17:46Z")
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Hi everyone, I’m new to the Jekyll forum so please let me know if I’ve done something incorrectly with formatting/structure of my post : )
I’m getting started with my blog and have been working on setting up a top navigation bar for the site. I learnt how to use Liquid to iterate over the pages and posts on my site, and this works great for finding every page I would like to list! However, I’m finding that I also end up with links to things I _don’t_ want to count, like the feed.xml file created for setting up the rss feed and a css file on my site.
Below is my code which is finding the pages:
I’ve been trying to find information on this elsewhere on the forum and I think this is happening because Jekyll treats these files as having empty frontmatter, so they are given the ‘post’ type. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?
I would like a solution that doesn’t involve fiddling with my project heirarchy if possible, the .xml is created when building the site so I think having it be visible to Liquid code is expected behaviour. Rewriting my css file in sass would probably hide this particular file, but I can imagine running into this issue with future files and would like to be able to handle it then. If it’s just poor practice to iterate over pages/posts that would be an acceptable answer too.
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How is this xml file created? Jekyll comes with [sass support](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/assets/), so you should use it. For rss I use [jekyll-feed](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed), so I don’t have this kind of problem.
Now, it is weird for jekyll to list these files under `site.pages` or `site.posts`. Any file without [front matter](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/) is listed via [site.static\_files](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/static-files/). Are you using any front matter in these files?
One possible solution for your specific case (that shouldn’t be happening I think) is to check for if the file extension is not one that it shouldn’t. You can get the file extension with `{% assign ext = page.path | split: "." | last %}`.
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