- Building an image gallery Step by step, how one person builds a portfolio gallery with the shipped Gallery and Image classes - the tree, the cover image, captions and alternative text, sort order, tags and ratings, and what to check before…
- Uploading many images How to bring dozens or hundreds of images into a portfolio at once with the multi-upload page of ezmultiupload - which classes offer it, which file types a gallery accepts, the ZIP import, preparing files first, and the…
- Editing images with ezie How one person uses the ezie image editor inside the Exponential edit form to crop, flip, rotate, pixelate, adjust contrast and brightness, convert to black and white or sepia, and add a watermark - what it is good for…
- Image variations for portfolios What image variations (aliases) are, which ones ship in settings/image.ini, how a portfolio uses them for thumbnails, gallery views and large views, how to add a larger alias for your work, quality and formats, and what…
- Blogs The section for people who run a blog on Exponential by themselves or with a friend - the shipped Blog and Blog post classes, writing and scheduling, tags, comments, RSS feeds and moving from another platform, with the…
- Starting a blog How one person sets up a blog on Exponential with the shipped Blog and Blog post classes - where it lives in the tree, the blog's name and description, the first posts, addresses, a feed, the menu and the decisions to…
- Writing and scheduling posts How one person writes, publishes and schedules blog posts on Exponential - the Blog post fields, drafts and preview, the publication date field, publishing at a later date with the Wait until date workflow, unpublishing…
- Comments on your blog How comments work on an Exponential blog - the shipped Comment class, the enable comments checkbox, who may comment by default, how to restrict comments to signed-in readers, holding comments for review, fighting spam…
- Tags and categories How one person organizes blog posts and portfolio items by topic on Exponential - folders as categories, the keyword field (ezkeyword) the shipped classes use for tags, the eztags extension for a controlled vocabulary…
- RSS feeds for your blog How one person gives a blog an RSS or Atom feed with the built-in RSS exports under Setup > RSS - sources, field mapping, format, the feed address, autodiscovery, podcasts, the optional autorss extension, and why the…
- Moving from another blog platform An honest guide for individuals who want to move a blog from WordPress or another platform to Exponential - there is no one-click importer; the documented path is an export, a conversion script and an import tool - with…
- Setup for individuals The setup decisions one person makes for a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential, in order - install method, site package and theme, a small budget, shared hosting or a small server…
- Choosing an install method for one person Which of Exponential's three install methods suits an individual - the setup wizard for shared hosting without a shell, exp:install for a quick start on your own computer or a small server, the kickstarter for…
- Choosing a site package and theme Which site package and theme an individual should start from on Exponential - the default sevenx_multisite and its clean variant, the simpler sevenx_site, the older ezwebin, ezflow and ezdemo packages, the themes behind…
- Running on a small budget How one person keeps the cost and the moving parts of an Exponential site low - no license fee, SQLite instead of a database server, one small machine, Velocity or a common web server, caching, few extensions, and a…
- Shared hosting or a small server Where one person's Exponential site should run - shared hosting with Apache or LiteSpeed and the setup wizard, a small virtual server with Velocity or PHP-FPM, or a machine at home - what works where according to the…
- Domain names and HTTPS What an individual arranges outside Exponential to give a site its own address and the lock in the browser - buying a domain from a registrar, pointing DNS at the server, telling Exponential its address, getting a…
- Running it alone The small routines that keep an Exponential site healthy when one person runs it - backups, updates, two-step sign-in, spam and security basics, the optional writing assistant, knowing when to hire help, and learning…
- Backups for one person A backup routine one person can keep for an Exponential site - what to copy (database and files together), backups from the administration with git_manager, the command-line way for SQLite and other databases, keeping…
- Updates for one person How one person keeps an Exponential site current - what an update covers, where releases are announced, security fixes first, the update steps with a backup and maintenance mode, the update tools in the administration…
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