Listing page tries to list documents disabled in _quarto.yml

Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/quarto-dev/discussions/14644

^{Originally posted by royfrancis July 2, 2026}

Description

When a qmd is disabled in _quarto.yml, the listing page still tries to list it with this warning:

WARN: File listing/test.qmd in the listing 'listing' contains no metadata.

And the listing page looks a bit broken. The disabled post is rendered on the listing page as an empty bordered container with no content.

▸ quarto --version
1.9.38

More details:
I have a directory setup like this:

.
├── _quarto.yml
├── index.qmd
├── listing.qmd
└── test.qmd

_quarto.yml

project: 
  type: website
  render: 
    - "*.qmd"
    - "!test.qmd"

listing.qmd

---
title: "Listing"
listing:
  type: grid
  contents:
    - "*.qmd"
---

index.qmd

---
title: "Home"
---

This is the home page.

test.qmd

---
title: "Test page"
---

This is a test page.
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