- Migrations: run, dry run and rollback Running the pending migrations from Setup > Migrations, the dry run and the simulated run, resuming a failed run, and taking a run, one migration or an earlier caption back. Each runs in the background as you and asks…
- Scheduled publishing What an Exponential site can do on a date by itself - publish at a date with the Wait until date workflow, hide or remove at a date with the shipped cronjobs, switch landing pages by a time rule, send newsletters on a…
- The .ezpkg file What an .ezpkg archive is, what is inside it and where, the names it is given, the checks an archive passes before anything of it is written, and how to open, list and check one by hand.
- Trying the demo and a test install How adopters see Exponential working before they commit - the public demonstration installation and its demo mode, a test installation on SQLite with one command, what to look at in an afternoon, and what not to put…
- Maintenance mode and planned work How an owner plans work that takes an Exponential site offline - what visitors and search engines see, what to write in the message, who still gets in, what to announce and what to check before and after.
- Migrations in the website sidebar The Migrations panel of the website sidebar (expwt) on the site's own pages with a screenshot - Record my changes, the run going on, the failed and pending migrations, the orphans, the last run and the latest deploys…
- package.xml reference Every element and attribute of package.xml as eZPackage reads it (parseDOMTree) and writes it (domStructure), with what is required, what is checked, what is ignored and what is lost when the kernel writes a package…
- Recover a locked-out administrator Get an administrator back into the administration from the server's shell - find out why the sign-in fails, unlock the account, enable it, reset a forgotten password with a generated one, or reset two-step sign-in.
- Search, forms and comments on a static site What happens to the parts of a site that need a server when it is published as static files - the search gets a page of its own, information collectors post to the live site or show a short text, comments, the basket…
- Asking a good question How to ask a question in the Exponential forums or chats so that someone can answer it in one reply - search first, describe the goal, include the environment from the system card, show what you tried, and close the…
- Exponential Intelligence in the ecosystem Exponential Intelligence's place in the ecosystem - a writing assistant in the administration that writes drafts only, as the signed-in editor, with hosted providers in the US or EU or a local open-weight model - its…
- Languages on a static site A multilingual site as static copies - one target per siteaccess, the language links (hreflang) pointing to the right copy or the live site, a search index per language.
- Media library upkeep How a site owner keeps the media library of an Exponential site usable over the years - folder rules, who uploads where, the quarterly look at unused images and files with the content checks, missing files and storage…
- Migrations: recording changes Setup > Migrations > Recording step by step with screenshots. Record your own changes, or every change of the site in a site-wide window that closes by itself after a number of minutes; the Recording bar; what a…
- Package types The package types Exponential knows (site, sitestyle, contentclass, contentobject, extension), where the type is declared, what each one is for, which types the 6.0.15 index really uses, and what the type changes in the…
- Reset two-step sign-in after a lost phone Help someone who lost the phone with the authenticator app - confirm who is asking, reset the second step and the failed sign-ins with exp:user:2fa --reset, end the old sessions, and let the person set up the app again.
- RSS and podcast feeds What a site owner does with the feeds of an Exponential site - RSS, Atom, OPML and Apple Podcasts exports, importing other sites' feeds, what to decide per feed, a podcast in owner's terms, and the checks that keep…
- AdminUI and the admin designs The administration interfaces of the Exponential ecosystem - admin4, admin4l built from layouts, AdminUI ported from Netgen Admin UI, admin3 and the classic designs - how a user switches between them, and the shared…
- Bulk-import members from CSV Create many member accounts from a spreadsheet with exp:user:import - prepare the CSV without passwords, check every row in a dry run, import with the activation mail or as disabled accounts, and deal with skipped and…
- Forms and collected information The owner's view of forms on an Exponential site - contact, feedback, poll and lead forms with the information collector, who reads and answers submissions, mail to the right team, spam protection, exporting and…
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