- SVG images From 15 October 2026 the image datatype accepts SVG images (.svg, and .svgz compressed with gzip) on every site, upgrades included. An SVG is a document a browser can run script from, so it is never stored as it was…
- swark: template operators and workflow events that are missing This page is for template authors and site builders. swark adds many template operators and two workflow events that are needed often but are missing in the kernel. It comes from Seeds Consulting AS (2008) and Brookins…
- Switching designs on a front siteaccess A public siteaccess can offer its visitors more than one design and let them switch between them with one click, for example a classic design and a modern one of the same content. Every visitor can switch: no account…
- syndication: share content between installations This page is for administrators who run several Exponential installations that share content. syndication exports part of the content tree of one site as a feed, and another site imports it, kept in step by cron. It…
- Template editor: create, order and edit overrides without touching INI files This page is for designers and site builders who change how a class, a node or a section looks. A template override says "for this class, this node or this section, use this template instead of the default". Exponential…
- Template path comments: see which template wrote which markup This page is for template developers who need to find the .tpl file behind a piece of HTML. With template path comments switched on, every rendered template is wrapped in two HTML comments that name it, the same help…
- The admin4 design This page is for administrators who choose the look of the admin, and for developers who style it. admin4 is a complete administration design in the look of the setup wizard, with a light and a dark mode. It holds every…
- The admin4l design: the admin page built from layouts This page is for administrators who want to arrange the administration interface, and for developers who add admin blocks. admin4l is admin4 whose page is assembled by Exponential Layouts: the header, the left and right…
- The administration design switch: what changed for developers Read this page if you maintain an administration design, an extension that overrides kernel classes for the administration, code that reads the design settings or the design-base cache, or an installation that uses…
- The audit trail: who did what, and proof that nobody changed the record This page is for administrators and security officers who need to know who did what on a site, and to prove that the record was not changed. Exponential 6.0.15 records security-relevant events in a tamper-evident log…
- The content checks: unreferenced objects, broken relations and missing files Read this page if you tidy up a content tree (images and files nobody uses any more) or look for published pages that link to or embed something a visitor cannot reach; and if you decide who may do that.
- The content finder Read this page if you need to find a content object when all you have is an id or a path (an object id from a log, a node id from a URL, the attribute id of an error message, the path of an image file on disk), to see…
- The Exp Debug bar This page is for developers and administrators who debug a page: slow, wrong, or full of warnings. The classic debug report at the bottom of a page became a pinned bar with tabs, a live summary, and controls for the…
- The Exp Debug bar: upgrade notes Read this page if you use the debug report, if you restrict debug output by IP address, or if your scripts or stylesheets work with the classic report. From Exponential 6.0.15 the debug report at the bottom of a page is…
- The Exponential Platform administration interface This page is for developers and administrators of Exponential Platform v5 (the Symfony based platform) and its older 2.x and 3.x lines. It describes the administration interface editors use at /adminui/: content tree…
- The Export menu of the content tree Exponential 6.0.15 adds an Export submenu to the Advanced submenu of the administration's context menus: the content tree's menu and the "…" menu of each row in the sub-items list, and the same entries are in the menu…
- The extension surface Read this page if you want to see everything in an Exponential installation that can be extended or replaced: every setting that names a class, every place the kernel looks for files, the interfaces, modules, views…
- The GraphQL API: ask the content for exactly the fields a page needs This page is for developers who build a front end, an app, a static site generator or an integration on the content of an Exponential installation, and for administrators who switch the API on and decide what it shows…
- The grouped country list Every country select of Exponential shows the countries in two groups:
- The help system: the documentation inside the administration Read this page if you look for help while working in the administration, if you decide who may read the help, or if you write documentation (in doc/ or in an extension) that should show up in it.
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