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Getting started Sign in to the administration, find the content you work on, make a first change, and know where to get help.
User manual One question per page for the work in the Admin 4 administration - the tabs, the daily tasks of editors, an...
Customers: start here The landing page for organizations and people who run their own site on Exponential, and their teams: a sta...
Governments: start here The landing page for public bodies that run or plan to run Exponential - ministries, regions and states, co...
Non-technical people: start here The landing page for people who are not technical and want to use, run or pay for an Exponential site: plai...
Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy o...

The Exponential project: start here

A map of the Exponential project as its website exponential.earth presents it, mapped onto this help - what the project is, the FAQ, the licensing FAQ, the roadmap, where to get support, the community channels, how to…
Two ways to build, every page

The index of the "two ways to build" help - templates in a design extension and the Layouts editor - with the header and footer how-tos worked out on the real Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.
Make a free website in 15 minutes

The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
Velocity is part of Exponential 6.0.15

As of 6.0.15 the Velocity Internet and web application server is part of Exponential itself, installed with every copy and driven by one console command. Why that is a turning point, what it brings out of the box, how…
Who is 7x?

The company behind Exponential. Nearly thirty years with one code base, from eZ Publish in 1999 to Exponential 6 in 2026; the product, the CMS, CMF and e-commerce stack, the platform distributions, the extensions, the…
New in 6.0.15: static publishing

Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host - built, checked and published from Setup > Static publishing, with editing kept in Exponential and every publish…

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