- Drafts and pending items How editors and web managers keep track of unfinished and waiting work with My drafts and My pending items, clean up old drafts, and find out what holds a version - with the rules that keep one person's drafts private.
- Estimating hosting costs for an Exponential site The factors that decide the hosting cost of an Exponential site - hosting model, engine, database, search, storage, backups, availability and environments - with the sizing facts the repository states and a method to…
- Extension load order Which extension wins when two provide the same setting or template: the written order of ActiveExtensions, how declared dependencies reorder it, extra extension folders, and how to see the real order.
- FAQ: hosting and data location Answers to the hosting questions public bodies ask about Exponential - can it run on our own servers or in our country, which hosting models, databases and web servers, what the server needs, outbound connections and…
- Give a language its own address Task for administrators: create a siteaccess for a language and reach it by a path (/fr/) or a host (fr.example.gov), with the RegionalSettings that make it show that language first.
- Go-live checklist A copy-ready go-live checklist for the business side of launching an Exponential site - content, legal pages, accounts, store and forms, security, backups, monitoring, communication and the decision to launch - linking…
- Handover when volunteers change How a small group hands its Exponential site from one volunteer team to the next without losing access or knowledge - what to hand over, retiring accounts with Check user accounts and Deactivate and move, changing…
- Hardening an Exponential site for a public body For administrators and hosting teams of public sites - the hardening layers of Exponential in the order to work through them (web server, settings and secrets, administration, sign-in, sessions, headers, CSP, uploads…
- Least-privilege principles Seven working rules for giving public-sector staff only the access they need in Exponential, each tied to the feature that supports it, with the rights that deserve special care.
- Links between your sites Why a link from one brand's page into another brand's content can lead to a 404 on a multisite installation, how the ezurlmultisite extension sends visitors to the right site, and what to test before launch.
- Logs and error references How a customer's "Something went wrong" becomes a log entry your team can act on, which logs Exponential keeps, how they are rotated and masked, and what support staff should ask a customer.
- Moving a site between hosts Moving an Exponential 6 site from one server or host to another without changing its version: what to copy, what to fetch fresh, the settings that name the old server, the commands in order, and the checks afterwards.
- Non-profit data protection checklist A data protection checklist for a non-profit's Exponential site, to work through at launch, yearly and whenever a form or service is added - inventory, minimization, access and two-factor login, retention and deletion…
- No required external services Exponential serves pages and runs its administration without any outside service: no license server and no third-party scripts or fonts in the admin. This page lists what does reach the internet, and only when you use…
- Notifications and subscriptions How people with an account follow news, notices or any folder on an Exponential site and get e-mail when something is published - Notify me, My notification settings, digests, the notification cronjob, publishing…
- Password rules The password rules Exponential applies and can apply - minimum length, the weak password check, character class rules, not containing the login, password expiry with ezmbpaex, forgot-password links - and how to choose…
- Per-site settings in extensions How each department site keeps its settings, design and templates together in one extension that applies only while its siteaccesses run (settings/override inside the extension), so a multisite installation stays…
- PHP settings for Exponential The php.ini values the Exponential installer checks, a production set for a PHP-FPM pool, upload limits, time zone, OPcache, error display, the PHP functions some features need, and where Velocity and FrankenPHP take…
- Privacy checklist A privacy and data protection checklist for a public body running Exponential - inventory, notices, cookies, forms, e-mail consent, logs and retention, requests from individuals and processors - separating the features…
- Rehearsing with the file transport How to rehearse the whole newsletter cycle (subscribe, confirm, send, unsubscribe) without sending a single real mail, using cjw_newsletter's file transport, and how to switch to real sending step by step.
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