- Include Splitting templates into parts with include: the design resource, passing parameters, what the included template sees, naming parts, and include versus node_view_gui and overrides.
- Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host What the Learning book's first chapter had you do by hand (unpack, create a database, write a virtual host, set up images and cron, read the ini files), and what each step is in Exponential 6.
- Intranet rollout checklist A checklist for rolling out an Exponential intranet, from the first test installation through permissions, sign-in, content migration, notifications and operations to the day staff are invited and the first review after…
- Log retention For administrators of public sites - how Exponential rotates and prunes its logs, the age limits that ship for 404, security and CSP logs, why other kernel logs have none by default, and how to set MaxAgeDays per log…
- Maintenance mode and planned downtime For public bodies that must announce and control planned downtime of a website. How Exponential's maintenance mode answers visitors with a 503 page and an expected end, who still gets in, how monitoring and search…
- MariaDB for hosts MariaDB as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the shared mysqli driver, utf8mb4 and InnoDB, the grants a site's user needs, settings, installing, the connection character set, backups and…
- Mass content error Runbook for a large mistake in content - a subtree removed, a wrong section or state set on many pages, a bulk import gone wrong, an announcement published too early - with the trash, version history, content jobs, the…
- OEM product reseller How to sell your own product built on Exponential - a packaged solution, a hosted product, an appliance or image - under the OEM resale opportunity of the partner program, with the GPL duties of distributing it, how to…
- On-premise or cloud hosting for an Exponential site A comparison of running an Exponential site in your own data center, on a private or public cloud, or with a managed host - what each model needs from the software, which costs move where, data location and control, and…
- Open source procurement How a public body buys services around free software like Exponential when there is no license to buy: what to procure (hosting, building, support, training), requirements that keep you independent, how to evaluate…
- Operations and monitoring requirements Requirement wording for running a public CMS day to day - monitoring, logs, scheduled jobs, caches, maintenance windows, upgrades and health checks - with the Exponential tools and pages that a supplier's answer should…
- 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 (.ezpkg) and the package creator The other way to distribute: .ezpkg packages made with the package creator in the administration or ezpm.php - extension exports, content class exports, site styles - and when to use them next to Composer.
- 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…
- Quality gates and acceptance The checks Exponential already runs on every change (CI workflows, test suites, design and accessibility tests, CSP reports) and how to build your project's own quality gates and acceptance on top of them.
- 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…
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