Feature stories: index
This page is for journalists, bloggers and creators looking for a story. Each story page follows the same pattern: the story in one paragraph, what is new and when, facts you can print with their sources, what not to claim, angles and headline ideas, and who to ask. Pick the area your audience cares about.
Contents
- Headline features of the 6.0.15 line
- Editing and content
- Security and trust
- Reach: languages, accessibility, multisite, search
- Running it: hosting, databases, engines
- Open source, documentation and community
- The product family
- Choosing a story
Headline features of the 6.0.15 line
6.0.15 is the current release line of Exponential 6.0. Call these features released only if the tag v6.0.15 exists
(git tag -l 'v6.0.*' --sort=version:refname); without it, write "in the development version"
(Covering 6.0.15, before and after its tag).
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: Exponential Velocity | A web server written in PHP that keeps the application loaded |
| Story: how the Velocity figures are measured | What the published speed figures mean, and their conditions |
| Story: engines, Velocity, FrankenPHP and the classic servers | The choice of how to serve Exponential |
| Story: the Velocity control panel | Running the server from the browser |
| Story: Exponential Layouts, the page builder | Editors arrange pages without template work |
| Story: Exponential Intelligence | A writing assistant inside the administration |
| Story: an assistant that writes drafts only | The safety design: drafts, permissions, providers |
| Story: admin4, the administration design | A new administration with light and dark themes |
| Story: the help system | Documentation inside the product, by audience |
| Story: content jobs | Large operations in the background |
| Story: jQuery 4 and the end of YUI | Replacing an old JavaScript library across the administration |
Editing and content
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: editing content | Structured content, versions, drafts and approval |
| Story: the online editor, TinyMCE 8 | The rich text editor's new generation |
| Story: the built-in shop | E-commerce in the kernel |
| Story: the REST API | Headless use of the content |
Security and trust
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: security | The process, the defaults, the hardening guide |
| Story: the Content Security Policy | The browser-side protection of the administration |
| Story: the audit trail | A tamper-evident record of what happened |
| Story: two-step sign-in | A second factor for editors and administrators |
| Story: operations tools for administrators | Maintenance mode, logs, checks |
Reach: languages, accessibility, multisite, search
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: languages and right to left | Hundreds of locales, right-to-left scripts |
| Story: accessibility | Contrast tests, target sizes, keyboard, dark mode |
| Story: multisite | Several sites from one installation |
| Story: search | The built-in search engine and Solr |
Running it: hosting, databases, engines
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: hosting freedom | Where and how it can run |
| Story: six databases | SQLite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL |
| Story: SQLite by default | A CMS that needs no database server |
| Story: MongoDB as a database | A document database under a content model |
| Story: operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows in tiers |
| Story: current PHP | Old code base, PHP 8.0 to 8.5 (PHP 7.4 usable without support) |
| Story: install in one command | From nothing to a site with one command |
| Story: Git first | Installing and updating with Git |
Open source, documentation and community
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: open source and licenses | GPL, GFDL, MIT, and why it mattered |
| Story: free documentation | Documentation anyone may copy and translate |
| Story: a code base kept alive | More than twenty years of one code base |
| Story: the community | Forums, chat, wiki and trackers |
| Story: funding and sponsors | Who pays for the work |
| Story: every pull request is merged | A contribution policy without rejections |
| Story: the extension ecosystem | The packages around the kernel |
The product family
| Story | In one line |
|---|---|
| Story: Exponential Platform DXP | The Symfony-only platform |
| Story: Exponential Platform Nexus and Legacy | Symfony and Exponential 6 together |
| Story: Exponential Basic | The small CMS of the 2.x line |
| Story: AdminUI | An alternative administration |
Choosing a story
| Your audience | Start with |
|---|---|
| General news | Story: a code base kept alive, Story: open source and licenses |
| Developers | Story: Exponential Velocity, Story: current PHP |
| Content teams and marketers | Story: Exponential Layouts, the page builder, Story: Exponential Intelligence |
| IT and security | Story: security, Story: the audit trail |
| Public sector and education | Story: accessibility, Story: languages and right to left |
Related pages
- Covering a release
- The product family for reporters
- Headlines: do and don't
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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