- Access and view cache filters for extensions Read this page if you build an extension that changes who may download a file, edit a draft or open a collaboration item, that decides which publications become notifications, or that needs view cache files of its own…
- A clean installation that fits shared hosting and says Exponential This page is for anyone installing Exponential 6.0.15, especially on shared hosting. July and August 2026 made the first run of a new installation smoother. Below is what you now get, in the order you meet it.
- Additional extension directories Read this page if you want to keep your own extensions apart from third-party ones, for example in extension_src/ next to extension/. Exponential 6.0 can load extensions from more than one directory. Nothing changes…
- admin4l: the admin page is built by Exponential Layouts Read this page if you run the admin siteaccess on admin4l, if you override admin4's pagelayout.tpl or the page parts, or if you edit admin layouts. The admin page is no longer one template: with SiteDesign=admin4l the…
- AdminAid: switch user, inspect objects, translate classes This page is for administrators who debug a site. AdminAid is a debugging helper with four tools:
- Administration navigation: the top node, tabs and content browse This page is for administrators and editors who find their way around the admin. Between 28 and 30 September 2026 the content structure tree learned to start at the top of the whole content tree, the header tabs got…
- Administrators approve new editor accounts For: site owners, administrators and editors. Since: 6.0.15.
- Admin links follow permissions This page is for administrators who set up roles for editors, and for template authors who show admin links. Since 2026-10-02 the admin dashboard, the top menu and the left menus show a link only to a user who can open…
- AdminNeo: the database manager behind the Database Source Editor This page is for administrators who want to know what the database tool inside the admin can do, or who run it on its own. AdminNeo is a complete database management tool written in PHP, a fork of Adminer. In…
- An extension can replace a kernel module This page is for developers who need to change how a whole module works. A module is a set of views behind a URL (content/view, user/login, shop/basket). Until January 2024 the kernel's module won whenever an extension…
- Apache .htaccess for Exponential 6 DirectoryIndex index.php
- A package installer that survives big packages This page is for anyone who installs a site package from the browser and has seen it time out. Installing a site package (the content, classes and design of a demo site) is the longest thing the setup wizard and Setup >…
- API reference The classes, methods, settings, template functions and console commands that deliver the LoveStack features in Exponential 6.0.15, for developers. What each feature does for editors and administrators is in the overview.
- Approval of new user accounts: administrators approve new editors Editors manage the site's members (member-management.md). Since 6.0.15 they may also create the account of a new editor, but that account is not published until an administrator approves it. Until then it cannot sign…
- A site package keeps the newer installed extension Since 6.0.15, installing a package never puts an older copy of an extension in place of the one already installed. Before 6.0.15 an extension package replaced the installed directory whenever it was installed without…
- Audit: what happens in Exponential, recorded Exponential 6.0.15 records what happens in an installation: who signed in and who failed to, who moved, hid or removed content, who changed a role, a setting or a price, which command or cronjob ran, and what the audit…
- A useful robots.txt out of the box This page is for site owners who care how search engines crawl their site. A new installation ships a robots.txt at the web root. Before September 2025 you had to write one yourself; now search engines get sensible…
- Backend services over ezjscore (expservices) Read this page if you build a remote admin app (GTK, Qt, KDE/GNOME, iOS, Android, shell) or a JavaScript frontend on top of Exponential. extension/expservices turns the ezjscore server functions into a library of remote…
- bccie: export collected information to CSV or Excel This page is for site owners who collect form answers (contact forms, polls) and need them in a spreadsheet. bccie ("BC CIE", shown as CIE in the admin menu since 1.1.4) exports the collected information of content…
- bcgooglesitemaps: Google XML sitemaps This page is for site owners who want search engines to find all public pages. bcgooglesitemaps generates a sitemap (sitemap.xml protocol) of your public content as a cronjob. It writes one file per siteaccess, usually…
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