It appears nav_exclude only works on top level navigation items. I needed it to work at the child level as well. I believe these changes accomplish that for the child and grand_child levels.
Love this theme. I've used it a few times. Apologies if this pull request is not according to convention. This is the first time I've done it on someone else's code. Thanks!
- Trimmed whitespace between html elements
This reduced one of my files from 850KB to 115KB
- Do not sort the whole list of pages on every iteration
This made build 3x faster