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Advocating for open source How advocates explain and promote the free software values behind Exponential - the freedoms of the GPL, a public history, contributions that stay free, contributing back - to organizations and individuals, with… Advocates Advocacy and community
Release coverage checklist A copyable checklist to run before publishing a story, video or post about an Exponential release - the tag, the date, the version format, the contents, the names, the quotes, security and privacy, links and a… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Advocating for free documentation How advocates promote and practice free documentation - why the help is under the GNU FDL, what readers may do with it, how to bring knowledge from forums and chats into the help and eZpedia, and how to encourage… Advocates Advocacy and community
The history pages as a source How reporters use the Exponential history - the month-by-month chronicle, the ledger of every commit and the coverage page - to date a change, find its context and cite it, with the limits of what the history can prove. Press, media and influencers Press and media
Advocating for sustainable funding How advocates encourage sustaining financial support for Exponential - the two GitHub Sponsors pages (the Exponential Foundation and 7x) and what each funds, how to make the case to employers and clients, and what not… Advocates Advocacy and community
Release story templates Fill-in templates for release coverage of Exponential - a news brief, a technical article, a development-line preview, an extension or Velocity note, a social post and a video script outline - each with the facts to… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Annotated tags Tag releases with annotated tags (git tag -a) that carry a message, an author and a date; how to write the message, check the tag before pushing, and push only that tag. DevelopersDesigners Publishing and distribution
Announcing a release Tell the people who use your extension about a release - the GitHub release itself, share.exponential.earth, the project page on projects.exponential.earth, ezpedia - what to write, and what to leave out. DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
A tour of the starter theme The starter design (extension cjw_themes_jumper) as an example of a theme that finds content by remote id, keeps behavior settings per siteaccess, draws its chrome with layouts and ships its own image aliases and… Designers Theme design
Auditing your public design with WCAG-EM For public bodies that must evaluate their own site - how to run an evaluation of a site built with Exponential following the W3C WCAG-EM methodology, choosing a sample from Exponential's templates, classes and… DevelopersProject managersDesignersGovernments Public sector
Audit trail archives and backups For security officers, records officers and operations teams in public bodies. How Exponential's audit trail keeps live files and signed archives, how long by default, how to keep evidence for years on storage the web… AdministratorsHosting companiesGovernments Public sector
Audit who has admin rights Step by step - list every account with full access or the right to change roles, using the role list badges, the role pages, Check user accounts and the audit trail, and record the result for an access review. AdministratorsProject managersGovernments Public sector
Benchmarking a hosted site How a host measures Exponential sites with exp:benchmark: safe defaults, cached against rendered pages, comparing servers back to back, deploy regression checks, noise on shared machines, and turning measurements into… AdministratorsHosting companies Hosting
By hand: a fetch function Give templates fetch( 'hello', 'newest', ... ): register a module folder, write function_definition.php and the collection class, and call it from a template, verified. DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
Capacity planning For public-sector IT teams sizing servers for an Exponential site. The figures the repository actually states (memory limits, Velocity workers, OPcache, disk thresholds, measured cache throughput), what drives load, how… AdministratorsProject managersHosting companiesGovernments Public sector
Card payments and PCI The store owner's card security routine for an Exponential store - knowing where card numbers are typed, the yearly questions for your payment provider, what to check after changes, and the special care an on-site card… AdministratorsBusinessesCustomers Customer success
CI and reproducing a red check The continuous integration of the Exponential repository from a PHP developer's side - the Quality, PHPUnit, Performance and CI health workflows, what blocks, how a pull request is tested, and the local command for each… DevelopersPHP Developers PHP development
Compare hosting offers Step by step, compare hosting offers for an Exponential site of a public body - requirements met, engine, database, backups and restore, security, data location, service levels, support line and exit - on one comparison… Project managersHosting companiesGovernments Public sector
Configuration under version control For public-sector IT teams that must control and trace every change to a live site. How to keep Exponential's code and settings in version control, lock the administration against settings changes with… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesGovernments Public sector
Content Security Policy for public sites For public bodies - what Exponential's Content Security Policy does, how it is shipped (report-only on the administration, off on public sites), where violation reports go, and why enforcing it is worth the effort for a… AdministratorsDevelopersGovernments Public sector

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