diff --git a/docs/features/private pages.md b/docs/features/private pages.md
index 5c3940bc7..638c628b6 100644
--- a/docs/features/private pages.md	
+++ b/docs/features/private pages.md	
@@ -12,9 +12,17 @@ There may be some notes you want to avoid publishing as a website. Quartz suppor
 
 If you'd like to only publish a select number of notes, you can instead use `Plugin.ExplicitPublish` which will filter out all notes except for any that have `publish: true` in the frontmatter.
 
+> [!warning]
+> Regardless of the filter plugin used, **all non-markdown files will be emitted and available publically in the final build.** This includes files such as images, voice recordings, PDFs, etc. One way to prevent this and still be able to embed local images is to create a folder specifically for public media and add the following two patterns to the ignorePatterns array.
+>
+> `"!(PublicMedia)**/!(*.md)", "!(*.md)"`
+
 ## `ignorePatterns`
 
-This is a field in `quartz.config.ts` under the main [[configuration]] which allows you to specify a list of patterns to effectively exclude from parsing all together. Any valid [glob](https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob#pattern-syntax) pattern works here.
+This is a field in `quartz.config.ts` under the main [[configuration]] which allows you to specify a list of patterns to effectively exclude from parsing all together. Any valid [fast-glob](https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob#pattern-syntax) pattern works here.
+
+> [!note]
+> Bash's glob syntax is slightly different from fast-glob's and using bash's syntax may lead to unexpected results.
 
 Common examples include: