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Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

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Review hold: stop editing and publishing until a reviewer releases it (6.0.15) Read this page if a page must not change while somebody reviews it (legal, compliance, a client, a press embargo), or if you write a tool that places or releases such a hold. The website sidebar offers holds in its Page… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Rich text: characters above U+FFFF and TeX source in custom tags This page is for administrators and developers whose rich text (the XML block datatype, edited in the Online Editor) holds emoji, mathematical letters such as 𝔸 (U+1D538) or 𝑥 (U+1D465), or LaTeX formulas in a custom… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopers Features
Role and policy checks in templates This page is for template developers who show or hide parts of a page by role or permission. Seven operators do it in one line, without fetching users and looping over policies yourself. Added in January 2026 (release… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Roles: policy IDs, sorting and order buttons This page is for administrators who maintain roles with many policies. Since 30 September 2026 the role editor and the role view show policy IDs and have sortable headings, and the editor has buttons that change the… EditorsAdministrators Features
RSS: Apple Podcasts feeds, a paged feed list and safer exports This page is for site owners who publish feeds or podcasts, and for administrators of sites with many feeds. It covers what the RSS module gained in 6.0 during September 2026: Apple Podcasts feeds, a paged feed list… Administrators Features
Safe redirects and "back to where you came from" This page is for developers who send a visitor somewhere after a form, and for site owners who wonder where Cancel goes. Since 6 October 2026 every edit form with a Cancel or Discard button goes back to the page it was… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Second step on the other sign-in paths Two-step sign-in (the extension sevenx_authentication_2fa) asks for its second step in the web login form. Four other ways in check a password on their own: the REST interface with basic authentication, WebDAV, SOAP and… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Server control commands: exp:webserver, exp:frankenphp and exp:solr This page is for administrators who start, stop and configure the servers an Exponential installation runs beside PHP. Three console commands added on 25 and 26 September 2026 control them: the web server (any of the… Administrators Features
Settings per environment (EXP_ENV) This page is for administrators and developers who run the same installation on several machines: a developer machine, a test or staging copy and the live site. Since October 2026 one constant, EXP_ENV, names the… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Setup > Extensions: loading order and safe saving This page is for administrators who activate extensions or change which one wins. The order of ActiveExtensions decides which extension's settings, templates and design files win when two extensions provide the same… Administrators Features
sevenx-recipes: Symfony Flex recipes for the platform packages This page is for developers who start or maintain a project on the Symfony based Exponential platform. sevenx-recipes is the Symfony Flex recipe repository of the se7enxweb platform packages. When composer require… Developers Features
sevenx_authentication_2fa: two-factor and social login This page is for administrators who want stronger sign-in, and for site builders who offer "sign in with Google" and similar. sevenx_authentication_2fa adds two-factor authentication and OAuth social login to… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
sevenx_dse: the Database Source Editor This page is for administrators who need to look at, and with care change, the live database without leaving the admin. sevenx_dse ("7x Database Source Editor") embeds the AdminNeo database tool (a downstream fork of… EditorsAdministrators Features
sevenx_themes_admin_classic: switch between admin3 and the classic fallback This page is for administrators with legacy workflows that need the classic server-rendered admin templates. sevenx_themes_admin_classic lets an administrator switch, per session, between: Administrators Features
sevenx_themes_simple: the simple theme This page is for site builders who use or adapt the default public design of Exponential. sevenx_themes_simple is the light, responsive design that ships with the default installation. It has: Developers Features
sevenx_valkey_cache: Redis and Valkey cache backend This page is for administrators who want faster pages or run several web servers. sevenx_valkey_cache stores Exponential's caches in Redis or Valkey instead of files. It replaces disk storage for: Administrators Features
Signed links in the "New user registered" mail When someone registers on the site, the administrator gets the mail "New user registered at " (site.ini [UserSettings] RegistrationFeedback=email, sent to RegistrationEmail, else [MailSettings] AdminEmail). Since 6.0.15… Administrators Features
Siteaccess by host prefix, and the redirect to the language Read this page if your site answers under several host names (live, test, local) or has its languages under their own path (/ger, /eng), and the start page example.com/ should lead visitors to the right language. Two… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Site bundles, metadata and the Twig tools of the platform This page is for developers who build or extend a Nexus site on Exponential Platform. These packages are the building blocks Nexus sites are made from. You normally do not install them by hand; the Nexus distribution… Developers Features
Smarty templates (.stpl) next to .tpl This page is for site builders and template developers who know Smarty, or who want to port a design to it. A design can now hold Smarty 5 templates (.stpl) next to the usual Exponential templates (.tpl). A .stpl is… Developers Features

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