Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

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ezpaypal: PayPal payment gateway This page is for shop owners who take payments with PayPal. ezpaypal is a payment gateway for the shop and workflow system. It uses PayPal's NVP (name-value pair) API, which works by redirection: the customer is sent to… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
ezpm: private messages This page is for site builders who want users of the site to send each other messages. ezpm ("eZ PM") adds private messaging: an inbox, sent items and drafts, and writing, replying and editing messages. Developers Features
ezpm: the package manager on the command line This page is for administrators who move content or whole sites between installations from the shell. ezpm.php is the command line front end of the package manager. It creates, fills, exports, imports, lists and… Administrators Features
ezprestapi: a REST content provider for remote updates This page is for developers who publish content into Exponential from scripts and other services. ezprestapi is a REST API provider (versions 1 and 2 of the ezp API) for updating content remotely: other systems list… Developers Features
ezprestapiprovider: the REST provider classes (deprecated) This page is for developers and site administrators whose installation still activates ezprestapiprovider. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
ezstarrating: star ratings for content This page is for site builders who let visitors rate content. ezstarrating adds a Star Rating datatype (ezsrrating). Add the attribute to a content class, and visitors can rate objects of that class from 1 to 5 stars. Developers Features
eztags: Tags, a taxonomy for content This page is for site builders who classify content, and for editors who tag it. eztags (shown in the admin as Tags since 2.3.5) adds a tag datatype, a tag tree you manage in the admin, and a tag view with its own… EditorsDevelopers Features
ezupdate: updates and packages in the admin This page is for administrators who update an installation or add packages to it. ezupdate ("eZ Update") is the package manager of an Exponential installation, in the admin and on the command line. Administrators Features
ezwebin-ezpackage: the installer packages of ezwebin This page is for administrators who install a site with the setup wizard and want to know what it imports. ezwebin-ezpackage is the repository of the setup wizard packages of the Website Interface: the content classes… Administrators Features
ezwebin: the Website Interface design This page is for site builders who start from the classic ready-made website, and for anyone who upgrades a site based on it. ezwebin ("Exponential Website Interface LS") contains: Developers Features
ezwt: the website toolbar This page is for designers who add editing to a public site design. ezwt ("eZ Website Toolbar LS") is the editing toolbar a logged-in editor sees on the public site: edit, move, remove, create here, sort sub items… Editors Features
ezxmlexport: scheduled XML exports This page is for sites that still run ezxmlexport and for anyone choosing an export tool. ezxmlexport ("eZ XML Export") exports content as XML on a schedule and can deliver the result by FTP. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Faster access arrays for users with many role assignments Read this page if your installation has many users with many role assignments, for example members of dozens or hundreds of teamrooms whose member roles are assigned per teamroom subtree, and the first request of a user… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
File consistency check and the release file list This page is for administrators who want to know whether the files of an installation were changed after it was installed, and for maintainers who cut releases. Setup > System upgrade > Check file consistency compares… Administrators Features
Fixes from the Opencontent and Mugo Web forks: limits, one-line logs and safer defaults Since 6.0.15 Exponential carries the fixes that the two active forks of its predecessor, Opencontent (Opencontent/ezpublish-legacy) and Mugo Web (mugoweb/ezpublish-legacy), made to the same kernel and that Exponential… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
git_manager: deploy and back up from the admin This page is for administrators of servers where nobody has a shell, or where a shell is not the way you want to work. git_manager gives two tools in the web admin: Administrators Features
hcaptcha: hCaptcha datatype This page is for site owners who want to keep spam out of forms with hCaptcha instead of Google's reCAPTCHA. hcaptcha adds an hCaptcha datatype, the counterpart of recaptcha. Add the attribute to a content class, and… Administrators Features
Help maintained as content Status: phase 1 in 6.0.15 (18 October 2026); the DITA export, the stored e-books and the overdue reviews on 20 October 2026 (upgrade note); the review workflow at the topic, "Was this helpful?", context help for clients… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Hide admin tabs: HiddenTabs This page is for administrators who want a simpler admin on one siteaccess, for example an editor siteaccess. Two settings take a tab out of the admin's top menu or the node view, whatever added it. Added 2026-10-01. EditorsAdministrators Features
Icon themes that live in your extension This page is for developers and designers who want their own class icons or file type icons in the admin. Exponential draws these small icons from an icon theme, a folder of images. Before July 2026 the only place for a… Developers Features

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