diff --git a/docs/build_docs.py b/docs/build_docs.py
index 8399296f7b..14f9dddf85 100644
--- a/docs/build_docs.py
+++ b/docs/build_docs.py
@@ -213,32 +213,6 @@ def convert_plaintext_links_to_html(content):
     return str(soup) if modified else content
 
 
-def remove_macros():
-    # Delete the /macros directory and sitemap.xml.gz from the built site
-    shutil.rmtree(SITE / "macros", ignore_errors=True)
-    (SITE / "sitemap.xml.gz").unlink(missing_ok=True)
-
-    # Process sitemap.xml
-    sitemap = SITE / "sitemap.xml"
-    lines = sitemap.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(keepends=True)
-
-    # Find indices of '/macros/' lines
-    macros_indices = [i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if "/macros/" in line]
-
-    # Create a set of indices to remove (including lines before and after)
-    indices_to_remove = set()
-    for i in macros_indices:
-        indices_to_remove.update(range(i - 1, i + 4))  # i-1, i, i+1, i+2, i+3
-
-    # Create new list of lines, excluding the ones to remove
-    new_lines = [line for i, line in enumerate(lines) if i not in indices_to_remove]
-
-    # Write the cleaned content back to the file
-    sitemap.write_text("".join(new_lines), encoding="utf-8")
-
-    print(f"Removed {len(macros_indices)} URLs containing '/macros/' from {sitemap}")
-
-
 def main():
     """Builds docs, updates titles and edit links, and prints local server command."""
     prepare_docs_markdown()
@@ -246,7 +220,6 @@ def main():
     # Build the main documentation
     print(f"Building docs from {DOCS}")
     subprocess.run(f"mkdocs build -f {DOCS.parent}/mkdocs.yml --strict", check=True, shell=True)
-    remove_macros()
     print(f"Site built at {SITE}")
 
     # Update docs HTML pages
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index 2b50402b41..138979130c 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ nav:
       - REST API:
           - hub/api/index.md
 
+
   - Reference:
       - cfg:
           - __init__: reference/cfg/__init__.md
@@ -614,6 +615,9 @@ nav:
 
 # Plugins including 301 redirects navigation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 plugins:
+  - exclude:
+      glob: 
+        - macros/*
   - macros
   - search:
       lang: en
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4fe7bfb91b..6d4349c05a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ dev = [
     "mkdocs-redirects", # 301 redirects
     "mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin>=0.1.2", # for meta descriptions and images, dates and authors
     "mkdocs-macros-plugin>=1.0.5"  # duplicating content (i.e. export tables) in multiple places
+    "mkdocs-exclude>=1.0.2" # exclude files from sitemap
 ]
 export = [
     "onnx>=1.12.0", # ONNX export