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Style guide governance How a public body keeps its editorial and design style guide effective on an Exponential site - what the system enforces (classes, fields, the rich text editor, templates, approvals) and what the style guide and its… EditorsProject managersDesignersGovernments Public sector
Tagging and themes for datasets How to classify datasets by theme so people and portals can find them: a controlled theme list with eztags (tag tree, synonyms, tag pages) or a simple selection field, and rules for keeping the list small and stable. EditorsWebsite creatorsGovernments Public sector
Template operators Give templates new operators: the registration, the four methods the engine calls, named parameters and piped input, a complete verified example, testing, and the PHP 8 pitfalls. DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
Tender template: documentation clause Clause text for the documentation a supplier delivers with an Exponential site - system description, content model, roles, configuration differences, operations runbooks, editor guides - in editable form under an open… AdministratorsProject managersPartnersGovernments Public sector
The compiled kernel container What var/cache/kernelservices/ is, what it saves on every request under PHP-FPM and Velocity, when the deploy and the INI cache clear rebuild it, how to check it with exp:services:check, and how to switch it off. AdministratorsHosting companies Hosting
The design settings a theme ships Which design settings belong in the theme extension and which belong to the installation - SiteDesign, AdditionalSiteDesignList[], StandardDesign and the stylesheet and script lists - with a recommended split. DevelopersDesigners Theme extensions
The maintenance life cycle An extension's life from the first release to the last - supported versions, following PHP and kernel releases, deprecating before removing, branches for old versions, and ending maintenance honestly. DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
The news pages: overview, full article and archive Building the first dynamic pages: a News folder with articles, the overview of the latest seven, the full view of one article, and an archive list with paging, using fetch, overrides and the navigator. Designers Getting started
The pagelayout: your site's frame What pagelayout.tpl does, the variables it gets ($module_result, $site, $current_user), a minimal CSP-friendly pagelayout to start from, cache blocks and the mistakes that make a site slow or blank. DevelopersWebsite creators Building websites
Third-party components and their licenses How a bundler finds every component inside a bundle and its license - Composer packages, extensions, JavaScript and CSS libraries, site packages, the runtime and the operating system - how to build the third-party list… DevelopersPartnersBundlers Bundles and distributions
Two-step sign-in for staff How a public body turns on two-step sign-in (authenticator app or e-mail code) for its staff with the sevenx_authentication_2fa extension, how to roll it out without locking anyone out, and what to do when someone loses… AdministratorsProject managersGovernments Public sector
Writing an accessibility statement For public bodies that must publish an accessibility statement - Exponential ships no template, so this page gives an outline based on the W3C WAI guidance, what to say about the CMS honestly, and how to publish and… EditorsProject managersGovernments Public sector
Fact-checking checklist A one-page checklist for fact-checking a story, script or post about Exponential before publication - names, organizations, history, releases, features, numbers, quotes, licenses, security, images and disclosure - each… AdvocatesPress, media and influencers Press and media
Tracking your contributions How advocates keep a simple, private log of their contributions - answers, posts, talks, pull requests, translations, issues - with links and no personal data of others, and how to use it for reviews, recognition and… Advocates Advocacy and community
Measuring advocacy honestly How advocates see whether their work helps - observable signals such as answered questions, merged pull requests, repeated questions that disappear, new contributors - without invented metrics, tracking of people or… Advocates Advocacy and community
Verifying numbers How to check any number about Exponential before you print it - find the method behind it, recount it in the repository or on Packagist and GitHub, keep the date and the conditions, and recognize the numbers that have… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Verifying dates How to check dates about Exponential - release dates from Git tags, history dates from the commit log and the history pages, the dates of the organizations from their own pages - plus the date traps (founding versus… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Verifying quotes How to verify a quote about Exponential before publishing it - find the original text or recording, check the words and the context, confirm who said it and in which role, date website quotes, and recognize quotes that… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Common errors in coverage The errors that appear most often in articles, videos and posts about Exponential - names, organizations, history, releases, features, numbers, licenses and security - each with the correct statement and its source, as… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Indigenous languages of the Americas How to publish in an Indigenous language of the Americas with Exponential: the 22 locales that ship (Alaska Native languages, Navajo, Cherokee, Lakota, Ojibwe, Cree, Inuktitut, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Maya, Guarani, Aymara and… EditorsAdministratorsProject managersGovernments Public sector

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