- Budgeting for upgrades and maintenance How to plan a yearly budget for keeping an Exponential site current and safe - 6.0.x releases, PHP and server updates, extension updates, checks and restore tests - with what each kind of work involves, a calendar, and…
- Businesses FAQ Short answers, each with its source, to the questions owners and managers ask before they run their business on Exponential: cost, license, hosting, support, stores, apps, languages, data protection, migration and what…
- Cache warming after changes For operations teams in public bodies that clear caches after deploys, restores or urgent corrections. How to warm the site again so the first visitors do not pay for every render, with preload.php, warm.php, the…
- Change the main language of an item Task for editors: make another existing translation the main language of an item in its Translations tab, for example before removing a translation created in the wrong language.
- Check a vendor's accessibility claims Step by step, check what a bidder says about the accessibility of Exponential and of the site it will build against the project's own accessibility evidence, and turn vague claims into verifiable commitments.
- Checklists for local businesses Every checklist for local business websites on Exponential in one place - the launch checklist, the checklists inside the other pages of this section, a short checklist before a holiday and one for moving premises, and…
- Choosing a design or theme Three ways to get a design for your site - use a shipped theme, adapt one in your own extension, or build your own - with what each costs in work and upgrades, and how to switch a siteaccess to a design.
- Compliance evidence from the audit trail How a business uses Exponential's tamper-evident audit trail as evidence for auditors, customers and its own reviews - what it records, how its integrity is proven, how to export a signed bundle, which alerts to route…
- Consultations and polls How to run a public consultation with a Consultation class and response form in Exponential, close it on time, publish the outcome, and when the shipped Poll class (one answer per user) is the right tool instead.
- Creating packages with the wizard What the package wizard in the administration can make for your site package (content classes, content, extensions, site styles), what it cannot make (the site package itself), and how to move its output into your…
- Cronjob monitoring Making sure the scheduled jobs of a public-sector Exponential site really run - what depends on them (approvals, audit alerts, notifications, indexing), Setup > Cronjobs with its runs and issues, pauses, the system…
- Customer accounts and guest checkout Whether customers buy as guests or with an account in an Exponential store - the shipped shop account handlers, what each asks of the customer, what is stored, and how to choose.
- Databases and users Creating the database and its user for an Exponential site, engine by engine in the official order (SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL), with the privileges each driver needs, the character set, how…
- Documentation sources: where to read about Exponential Every documentation source the Documentation page of exponential.earth lists, with what each covers, how current it is and how to use it next to this help - the documentation website, the free books, the articles on…
- Downloads and permissions Who may download which document on an Exponential site - content/download checks read access, sections and roles for restricted documents, stored PDF exports that are public, images served directly, hiding and removing…
- Dynamic properties PHP 8.2 deprecates properties a class does not declare. How the kernel handles them for persistent objects, how to find them in your own classes, and when to declare, use an array, or allow them.
- E-commerce FAQ Short answers, each with its source, to the questions merchants, store managers, developers and agencies ask about selling with Exponential - what the shop includes and lacks, payments, VAT, shipping, orders, data…
- Emergency publishing bypass How a public body can publish urgent information (an emergency notice, a closure, a public safety message) without waiting for the normal approval, while keeping the bypass small, deliberate and on the record in the…
- Estimating theme work Break theme work into pieces you can estimate - pagelayout, view templates, overrides, styles, accessibility, dark mode, testing - keep your own records of actual time, and add a margin for review and the unknown.
- Evaluating accessibility evidence in a CMS bid How an evaluator judges the accessibility evidence of a bid based on Exponential - what the product documentation states for WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549 and Section 508, what is not evidenced, what the bidder must add for the…
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