diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 19575f0897..72ebdfc89f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,21 @@ tmp/
 /htmlproofer.out
 /.clj-kondo/
 /.lsp/
+
+# ignore dirs we pull in from the website repo
+/_data/
+/_examples/
+/_glossary/
+/_headers/
+/_help/
+/_includes/
+/_layouts/
+/_plugins/
+/_posts/
+/_sass/
+/css/
+/files/
+/images/
+/js/
+/learn/
+/redirects/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/script/server b/script/server
index ea3f7d929b..6cb59ca1da 100755
--- a/script/server
+++ b/script/server
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
 # Run the jekyll server
 rm -rf _site
 
+bb ./script/sync_repo.clj --from-repo ../metabase.github.io
+
 bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl '' --watch --incremental