From 98677c730416b5921a50c3e12f9d7201fc9663cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?spart=E2=88=86ck?=
 <136268910+spart4ck@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:39:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] New feature to be able to skip files already minified
 with '.min.' in the name, or exclude based in a custom array

---
 pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py b/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
index 8b8b25d..fc30f98 100644
--- a/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
+++ b/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
@@ -27,16 +27,26 @@ def __init__(self, pelican):
         minify_js = pelican.settings.get("JS_MIN", True)
         minify_inline_css = pelican.settings.get("INLINE_CSS_MIN", True)
         minify_inline_js = pelican.settings.get("INLINE_JS_MIN", True)
+        minify_skip_files = pelican.settings.get("MINIFY_SKIP_FILES", [])
+        minify_skip_already_minified = pelican.settings.get(
+            "MINIFY_SKIP_ALREADY_MINIFIED", True
+        )
 
         for path, _, files in os.walk(pelican.output_path):
             for name in files:
                 path_file = os.path.join(path, name)
 
+                if self.skip_file(
+                    path, name, minify_skip_files, minify_skip_already_minified
+                ):
+                    continue
+
                 is_html = fnmatch(name, "*.html")
                 is_css = fnmatch(name, "*.css")
                 is_js = fnmatch(name, "*.js")
 
                 if is_html and minify_html:
+                    LOGGER.debug(f"[MINIFY] File {path_file} minified")
                     self.write_to_file(
                         path_file,
                         lambda content: self.minify(
@@ -45,12 +55,14 @@ def __init__(self, pelican):
                     )
 
                 if is_css and minify_css:
+                    LOGGER.debug(f"[MINIFY] File {path_file} minified")
                     self.write_to_file(
                         path_file,
                         lambda content: self.minify(content, True, False),
                     )
 
                 if is_js and minify_js:
+                    LOGGER.debug(f"[MINIFY] File {path_file} minified")
                     self.write_to_file(
                         path_file, lambda content: self.minify(content, False, True)
                     )
@@ -62,6 +74,16 @@ def minify(self, content, minify_css, minify_js):
             minify_js=minify_js,
         )
 
+    # Exclude files which path or name is into the array of skip_files, or is already minified
+    def skip_file(self, path, name, skip_files, skip_already_minified) -> bool:
+        if (skip_already_minified and ".min." in name) or any(
+            path_or_name in skip_files for path_or_name in [path, name]
+        ):
+            LOGGER.debug(f"[MINIFY] File {name} skipped")
+            return True
+
+        return False
+
     @staticmethod
     def write_to_file(path_file, callback):
         """Write the file to disk.

From 45c4fe1bc11bc1c730ceda407d41ec69fc1ee841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?spart=E2=88=86ck?=
 <136268910+spart4ck@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:10:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Correction of logic to detect excluded name into the
 string, not 100% match of the string

---
 pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py b/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
index fc30f98..0774595 100644
--- a/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
+++ b/pelican/plugins/minify/minify.py
@@ -74,10 +74,17 @@ def minify(self, content, minify_css, minify_js):
             minify_js=minify_js,
         )
 
-    # Exclude files which path or name is into the array of skip_files, or is already minified
+    # Exclude files already minified or which name or path is contained into the array of excluded files
     def skip_file(self, path, name, skip_files, skip_already_minified) -> bool:
-        if (skip_already_minified and ".min." in name) or any(
-            path_or_name in skip_files for path_or_name in [path, name]
+        path_or_name = [path, name]
+
+        if (skip_already_minified and ".min." in name) or (
+            skip_files
+            and any(
+                exclude_name in real_name
+                for real_name in path_or_name
+                for exclude_name in skip_files
+            )
         ):
             LOGGER.debug(f"[MINIFY] File {name} skipped")
             return True