A Way to Disable Export Theme

[unsalkorkmaz]

What problem does this address?

This button tries to zip my whole theme which as node_modules with 500MB content:

What is your proposed solution?

I need a way to disable this.

[t-hamano]

@unsalkorkmaz
Thanks for your reporting.

My understanding is that the node_modules directory is explicitly excluded and I could not reproduce this in my environment.

We would be happy to receive more information on WordPress version, Gutenberg plugin version, OS, etc.

[unsalkorkmaz]

My node_modules is in directory.

wp-content/themes/theme_name/headless/node_modules

I will post a video today

[unsalkorkmaz]

Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1LtmMrjsY
(new uploaded, proccessing atm)

You can see CPU spike in right macos m1 menu..

[unsalkorkmaz]

And lets say I want to give demo for my premium theme.. Why the hell would I want a download button?

[t-hamano]

@unsalkorkmaz

Thank you for the detailed explanation.
Indeed, it seems that the node_modules directory in the sub directory will be included.
I was also able to reproduce the following commands:

• cd ../path/to/wp-content/themes/twentytwentythree/assets
• npm install some-package
• Export the theme.

The increase in CPU load and the time it takes to run Export is probably due to the large number of files being scanned.

I think it might be a good idea to submit a core ticket since the theme export feature is already in the WordPress core and I believe it is a PHP side issue.

[unsalkorkmaz]

Ok. I opened a ticket;
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57379#ticket