Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

407 pages

The package wizard This page is for administrators who create packages in the administration, and for anyone who changes the wizard's templates. Since October 2026 the package creation wizard (Setup > Packages > Create new package… Administrators Features
The product is called Exponential This page is for anyone upgrading from a release before 6.0.10, and for site builders who want their own templates to use the current name. From version 6.0.10 (August 2025) the software calls itself Exponential. The… Developers Features
The responsive admin design (admin3) This page is for administrators who want editors to work from a phone, a tablet or a wide monitor. admin3 is the classic admin interface (the admin and admin2 designs) with a sidebar that collapses, menus that work by… Administrators Features
The secret store: passwords and keys of the tools, encrypted, by name (6.0.15) Read this page if you write a tool that needs a password, a token or an API key (a database connection, an import source, a remote server), or if you administer the secrets of an installation. The data table connections… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The setup wizard's new look, and the editor siteaccess This page is for anyone who installs Exponential, and for administrators who want a simpler admin for their editors. On 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-02 the setup wizard got a new look, and it now installs three siteaccesses… EditorsAdministrators Features
The transfer registry: import and export tools that know each other (6.0.15) Read this page if you write or maintain an import or export tool (in the kernel or an extension), or a template that links to one. Users read Which import or export tool do I need?. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The users and groups of a role, a page at a time This page is for administrators whose roles are given to many users, and for developers who override role/view.tpl. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The website sidebar (expwt) in place of the website toolbar (ezwt) expwt is the site-side management sidebar of Exponential: a slim tab at the edge of the site's own pages that opens into a panel for editing the page, creating content, moving it in the tree, and the editor's own… Editors Features
Transfer runs: one engine and one run history for every import and export tool (6.0.15) Read this page if you write or maintain an import or export tool, or a page that lists their runs. The tools themselves are declared in the transfer registry; users find their runs on the run list and the Statistics… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Twig templates (.twig) next to .tpl This page is for site builders and template developers who know Twig, or who want to port a design to it. A design can now hold Twig 3 templates (.twig, and *.html.twig for templates shared with Symfony-style projects)… Developers Features
User audit log The user audit log answers one question for any account of the installation: who did what to it, when, and from where — and who tried and was refused. It is a table in the site's database, expuser_audit, with one row… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
User management from the console Read this page if you look after the user accounts of an installation and want to do it from a shell, a deploy script or a CI job. Exponential 6.0.15 adds the exp:user commands: list, inspect, create, change, disable… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
uwebserver: the static file server of Velocity This page is for developers and testers who need a fast, safe static file server, or a baseline to measure the PHP server against. uwebserver is a small web server written in C that ships with the Velocity engine. It… Developers Features
Velocity: running Exponential in a persistent-worker web server This page is for administrators of an Exponential installation who want to run it under Velocity, and it is the entry point to everything Velocity in Exponential. Exponential was built for the shape of mod_php and… Administrators Features
Velocity and the opcode cache: why a page costs what it does, and how to measure it This page is for administrators who run Exponential Velocity and want to know where the CPU time of a page goes. Two changes belong together (added 2026-10-02): Administrators Features
Velocity control panel and dashboard This page is for administrators who run a Velocity server and want to watch and manage it from a browser. Every Velocity server has two built-in web views of itself: Administrators Features
Velocity discovery, federation and deploy This page is for developers who run Velocity applications beside Exponential and want several servers to work together. An Exponential site does not need these features. Applies to Exponential Velocity 0.0.4.x… Developers Features
Velocity HTTPS and certificates This page is for administrators who serve a site over HTTPS with Velocity. Velocity's HTTPS looks after itself. With no certificate configured, the server makes its own and serves HTTPS anyway. With a source configured… Administrators Features
Velocity packages, Docker images and binaries This page is for administrators who install Velocity outside an Exponential installation: as a system service, a container or a single binary. An Exponential installation already has the engine through Composer and… Administrators Features
Velocity Q shell This page is for administrators who manage a Velocity server and would rather type than click. The Q shell is a drop-down console on every server view (/Q/dashboard, /Q/panel, documentation, PHP Info, error pages). Its… Administrators Features

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