- Orders and order statuses How orders are handled in an Exponential store - the order list and order view, the seventeen shipped statuses from Pending to Refunded, custom statuses, who may change them, archiving and customers.
- Packages in the administration The administration pages that handle packages on an installed site - the package list and a package's page, import, install and uninstall, the package wizard, and ezupdate's package servers and fetch - with the policies…
- Payment gateways Living with the payment step of an Exponential store - checks to do every day and month, what to watch when the provider changes something, signs that payments are not reaching orders, and what to ask your partner and…
- Personal data at exit How to handle personal data when an Exponential site moves to a new supplier or system - finding where personal data lives, exporting only what the receiver needs, passwords, consent and audit records, secure transfer…
- Remove a wrong translation safely Task for lead editors: move an item created in the wrong language into the right one (translate, set main, remove), knowing that removing a translation deletes it in every version.
- Request logs How Exponential separates real faults (error.log) from not-found answers (404.log) and suspicious requests (security.log), what each line holds, how addresses are masked, which settings control it and how support staff…
- Role design: contractors and temporary staff How to give an agency, a contractor or temporary staff exactly the access a contract covers - one folder, one site, a fixed period - with personal accounts, a separate user group, limited assignments, two-step sign-in…
- Rollback planning How to plan the way back before every change to a public website - which changes can be reversed by redeploying, which need a backup restore because the database changed, the decision point inside a maintenance window…
- RSS, Atom and OPML feeds for integrations Feeds as the simplest pull integration - exporting content as RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, OPML or podcast feeds, importing other systems' RSS feeds by cronjob, how imported items are keyed, caching, cleanup, and the limits…
- Security updates and disclosure Which Exponential versions receive security fixes, how fixes are published, how a host follows releases and rolls updates out to customer sites, how to check that files were not changed, what else needs updates, and how…
- Site packages and the themes that ship What a site package installs (classes, design, content, roles, settings), which packages and themes ship with Exponential, where they come from, and how to choose between a full and a clean package.
- Start CSP reporting on a public site Step by step - public siteaccesses get no Content Security Policy by default; switch one to report-only with Exponential's own report collector, so you learn what your design, content and embeds would need before…
- Static cache The static cache for hosts: pages generated as plain files and served by the web server without PHP, why it ships off and the installation book says to leave it off, when a customer might still want it, how to generate…
- System information and health checks What Setup > System information tells an in-house team - which server answered, the health checks with what to do, the overview cards, the support report with secrets left out - and how to run the same checks from the…
- The trash and restoring content For editors and administrators - how Exponential's trash works (who trashed what, where it was, restore to its place), that users never go to the trash, how long items stay (KeepItemsForDays and the trashpurge cronjob)…
- TLS certificates in panels How HTTPS works for an Exponential site on a panel server: the panel's certificate for Apache or nginx, what Exponential itself must be told (site URLs, secure cookies, HSTS, trusted proxies), and how Velocity or…
- Velocity HTTPS certificates How Velocity serves HTTPS for a hosted site: certificates from a file or a panel, Let's Encrypt and other ACME CAs, archives and PKCS#12 bundles, the self-signed stand-in, live swap on renewal, HSTS, monitoring expiry…
- What does the Store tab show? The Store tab opens the store dashboard - orders today and in the last 30 days, orders that wait, revenue per currency, how checkout is set up and what to do next - and its left menu leads to orders, products…
- What Exponential does not cover for accessibility The known accessibility gaps the project names itself - public designs not audited, classic administration and admin3 partly fixed, online editor unverified, extensions without an overall statement, no automated engine…
- The package list and package page Read Setup > Packages - the repositories and their counts, the search and filters, the cards, installer sources and the removal confirmation - and a package's own page with its details, contents, Compare, Validate and…
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