- Bookmarking system pages Keep the pages of the administration you open every day, such as Setup, the help, the audit trail, a filtered list or a search, in your bookmarks next to your content, in the same folders.
- Bring the site back online Step by step - end a maintenance window safely - check the site from an allowed address, switch maintenance off, clear the caches in front of the site, check every server answers 200, resume cronjobs and record the…
- Chains and queued work Multi-step AI work in Exponential Intelligence through the job queue - AI chains (write, review, revise, SEO and QA, a human checkpoint, then translate), what runs in the background, who it runs as, lanes and batches…
- Clustering and shared storage How Exponential shares uploaded files and caches between several web servers with the DFS cluster file handler: the NFS mount, the metadata database, index_cluster.php, the maintenance commands and what to watch.
- Content languages and interface languages The two kinds of language in Exponential, explained for public bodies: content languages (what pages are written in) and interface languages (what the administration and the site's fixed texts speak), where each is set…
- Customer and partner areas How an Exponential extranet gives each partner, customer or tier its own area - user groups per organization, sections per tier, subtree limitations per organization, object states for audiences that change, landing…
- Documents and file libraries How an intranet keeps policies, handbooks, forms and other documents in Exponential - files as content objects, downloads that check permissions, versions, bulk upload, text search inside files, PDF exports and the…
- Exit plan template for an Exponential site A copy-and-fill exit plan for a public website or intranet on Exponential - inventory, deliverables with formats, roles, timeline, verification, personal data rules, redirects and sign-off - to attach to the contract…
- exp:install for hosts The console install as a host uses it from scripts and panels: the options that matter, the database password from the environment, the administrator password rules, dry run and print, exit status, and examples for each…
- FAQ: security Answers to the security questions public bodies ask about Exponential - OWASP Top 10, ASVS, penetration tests, two-step sign-in, account lockout, audit trail, Content Security Policy, vulnerability reporting and fixes…
- Functional requirements for a public-sector CMS A catalog of functional requirements a public body usually needs from a web content management system - content model, editing, approval, versions, permissions, search, forms, feeds, multisite - each phrased to be…
- Give an approver rights Step by step - make a colleague an approver of content before publication by adding them to the approvers' group named in the Approve event and making sure the group's role opens the collaboration inbox and pending…
- Government and sovereign cloud hosting For public bodies that must or want to run Exponential in a government cloud, a sovereign cloud or a national provider's virtual machines. What the software needs from such a platform, which hosting models the sources…
- Immutable releases and versions Why a released Exponential version never changes after publication, how versions are numbered and compared, how to pin and verify the version you run, and what this means for procurement records, audits and reproducible…
- Map locations with ezgmaplocation How to set up the ezgmaplocation extension so a content class (for example a service point) gets a location field: activation, the database table per engine, the API key setting, the Content Security Policy, and adding…
- Measured steps and times How the steps and times quoted in these pages were measured - on a throwaway copy of a real Exponential 6.0.15+ installation - and the raw numbers, so anyone can repeat them on their own site.
- Members-only content How an Exponential member site keeps pages, documents and discussions for members - a members section, membership levels, public teasers, protected downloads, members-only search results, forums, and how to test it as a…
- Monthly checklist The monthly checklist for the owner of an Exponential site - releases and updates, backups, security signals, accounts, form data, content checks, costs and the store - with the questions to put to the host and partner…
- Non-profit monthly checklist The monthly routine for a non-profit's Exponential site, in about an hour - backups and updates, cron and logs, the Donate link and donations, forms and spam, newsletter, accounts of people who left, content freshness…
- OPcache OPcache for hosted Exponential sites: the settings under PHP-FPM, Velocity and FrankenPHP, why Velocity's differ, the one setting never to use, what JIT measured, and how to check and profile the cache.
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