diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
index 68721389..cfdd8df2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
@@ -45,6 +45,32 @@ jobs:
         run: pkgdown::build_site(new_process = FALSE, install = FALSE)
         shell: Rscript {0}
 
+      - name: update examples file if non distill site detected
+        id: cpr
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          add-paths: vignettes/examples.yml
+          commit-message: |
+            Remove non-distill example website [auto PR]
+          branch: updates/example-gallery
+          delete-branch: true
+          assignees: cderv
+          reviewers: cderv
+          title: |
+            [CI] Remove non-distill example website
+          body: |
+            This PR was created automatically after rendering vignette because some example website does not seem to use distill anymore.
+            Please review and merge.
+          base: main
+
+      - name: Check auto PR outputs
+        if: steps.cpr.outcome == 'success'
+        run: |
+          echo "Pull Request Number - ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull-request-number }}"
+          echo "Pull Request URL - ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull-request-url }}"
+          echo "Pull Request Action Performed - ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull-request-operation }}"
+
       - name: Deploy to Netlify
         id: netlify-deploy
         uses: nwtgck/actions-netlify@v2
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d54085ce..fa5b63db 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Suggests:
     shiny,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     withr
-Config/Needs/website: rstudio/quillt, pkgdown, tidyverse/tidytemplate
+Config/Needs/website: rstudio/quillt, pkgdown, tidyverse/tidytemplate, rvest
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US
diff --git a/vignettes/examples.Rmd b/vignettes/examples.Rmd
index 11fec001..9ae5bd4c 100755
--- a/vignettes/examples.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/examples.Rmd
@@ -8,6 +8,25 @@ resource_files:
 library(quillt)
 ```
 
+```{r, include = FALSE}
+# check yaml examples
+sites <- yaml::read_yaml("examples.yml")
+is_working_distill <- vapply(sites, function(s) {
+  # check for error
+  if (httr::http_error(httr::GET(s$href))) return(FALSE)
+  html <- rvest::read_html(s$href)
+  generator <- rvest::html_attr(rvest::html_element(rvest::read_html(s$href), "meta[name='generator']"), "content")
+  return (is.na(generator) || generator == "distill")
+}, logical(1))
+yaml::write_yaml(sites[is_working_distill], "examples.yml", handlers = list(
+    # Handle yes/no from 1.1 to 1.2
+    # https://github.com/vubiostat/r-yaml/issues/131
+    logical = function(x) {
+    value <- ifelse(x, "true", "false")
+    structure(value, class = "verbatim")
+  }))
+```
+
 The examples below illustrate the use of Distill for making websites and blogs.
 
 ```{r, echo=FALSE}