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Titles, thumbnails and descriptions How to package a video or post about Exponential honestly - titles that promise what the video delivers, thumbnails that use brand assets within the press kit's rules, descriptions with the version, disclosure, sources… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Short-form video How to make vertical short videos of 15 to 60 seconds about Exponential that stay accurate - one idea per clip, eight ready ideas with the screen to record and the sentence to say, framing a desktop interface for a… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Writing a fair review How creators and reviewers judge Exponential fairly - test on your own installation, state the version and setup, separate what you saw from what the documentation says, report limits and gaps honestly, compare only… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Tutorial series plan A ready plan for a tutorial series about Exponential in three tracks - editors, site builders and administrators - with twelve episodes, each tied to a help page and a demo script, the version to state, prerequisites… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Podcast episode outlines Ready episode outlines for podcasters covering Exponential - a history episode, a release episode, an open source sustainability episode, an accessibility and languages episode and a technical deep dive on Velocity… AdvocatesPress, media and influencers Press and media
Activating a theme: ActiveExtensions and ActiveAccessExtensions Switch a theme extension on for the whole installation or for one siteaccess, in the browser (Setup > Extensions) or on the command line, and run the steps that make the change visible. AdministratorsDesigners Theme extensions
Administration interface languages Which languages the Exponential administration is translated into, how complete each translation is according to the project's own measurements, which ones are machine-assisted, how staff choose their language, and how… AdministratorsProject managersGovernments Public sector
A performance audit for every release Check that a release did not make the theme slower - page weight, number of requests, image sizes, layout shift and largest contentful paint on the page list - and compare with the previous release. DevelopersDesigners Maintenance life cycle
Application checklist Everything to prepare before filling in the Exponential Partner application - company facts, team, experience, references, the profile and level you aim for, your statement of motivation and the internal decisions - as… Partners Partnership
By hand: a cronjob part Add a nightly digest to mysite_hello - a CronjobPart class, the one-line script, a part of its own in cronjob.ini, running it with runcronjobs.php and scheduling it in the crontab. All PHP files passed php -l. DevelopersApplication creators Extension development
Caches after a change Which cache to clear after which kind of change - menu settings, templates, layouts, content - in the administration's Clear cache box and with exp:cache, and what each choice covers. EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersDesignersWebsite creators Two ways to build
Case study: a pull request to an upstream author A real pull request to another organization's project, read section by section: what was broken, the one-line fix, the kept security intent, tests that fail without it, and what was not checked. DevelopersApplication creators Extension development
Changelog entries: Added, Updated, Removed, Renamed, Fixed Write changelog entries and commit messages with one of five prefixes so a changelog can be assembled from history - what each prefix means, good and bad examples, and one change per entry. DevelopersDesigners Publishing and distribution
Configuration: INI files instead of YAML, PHP arrays or .env How Exponential is configured, for developers used to config/*.yaml, config/*.php, settings.py or application.properties - INI files in layers (defaults, extensions, siteaccesses, override), the order in which they win… DevelopersWeb Framework Developers Web frameworks
Content classes for builders Designing the content model - classes, attributes, datatypes, identifiers, object name patterns, containers - and how the model connects to templates, overrides and fetches, with rules that keep it maintainable. DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
Contributing back as a public body Why and how a public body gives code, translations, documentation and bug reports back to the Exponential project: what is worth sharing, the steps for publishing an extension, contributing fixes to the kernel, and the… DevelopersProject managersGovernments Public sector
Create a user group for a department Step by step - create a user group for a department or team in the Users tree, give it its roles with limitations, and add members, so access is managed per group instead of per person. AdministratorsGovernments Public sector
Customer accounts Looking after the customers of an Exponential store - guest and account checkout as configured, the customer list, account questions from customers, tidying old accounts, and who on the team may see customer data. AdministratorsBusinessesCustomers Customer success
Datatype storage, validation and templates The complete rating datatype: storage columns, validating posted input safely, values across versions, search and sorting, and the edit and view templates, all verified. DevelopersApplication creators Extension development
DCAT and national portals Exponential has no DCAT output and no CKAN connector. This page explains the options for getting datasets published in Exponential into a national or European data portal: a DCAT template of your own, a separate catalog… DevelopersProject managersWebsite creatorsGovernments Public sector

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