- 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…
- Migrating customers from older versions What a host needs to know when a customer's site runs an older release of the software (3.x, 4.x and 5.x under the old name, or an older 6.0.x): what stays the same, what changes, the effort drivers, a staging plan, and…
- Modeling an event class Which attributes to add to the shipped Event class for public events - place, venue accessibility, audience, booking status, booking link, organizer, tags - how to add them safely on a live site, and when to make 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…
- Motion and interaction How theme designers specify motion and interaction for an Exponential theme - what motion is for, durations and easing as tokens, reduced motion, carousels and sliders editors fill, disclosures and dialogs, and how…
- Naming your theme extension The rules for the folder name of a theme extension, its design name, its class prefix and its Composer package name, with the conventions real themes follow and the names to avoid.
- 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.
- Open data in Exponential at a glance One table of every Exponential feature that helps a public body publish open data, with where it lives and what it does not do, so a project manager can scope the work in minutes.
- Part 3: The extension developer Part 3 of the book: the anatomy of an extension, one mechanism per chapter, from metadata and settings to modules, operators, datatypes, events, security and tests, followed by step-by-step tutorials.
- Personal data in Exponential Where an Exponential installation stores personal data - user accounts, sessions, orders, form submissions, mail preferences and consent, newsletter subscribers, notifications, search phrases, logs, the audit trail…
- Planning an Exponential project The phases of an Exponential project from discovery to operation, project roles mapped to the real roles and policies, and a requirements table linking each need to the feature that answers it.
- Planning the adoption The landing page of the planning stage for adopters - the team and its roles, skills and training, a timeline built from measurements, the first content model, hosting and database choices, and adopting in stages.
- Proactive disclosure How a public body publishes information before anyone asks for it, using Exponential: deciding what to publish, a structure for it, regular publishing with roles and approval, and keeping it current.
- Product classes and catalog How products are modeled in an Exponential store - the product class, price and option fields, folders and categories - and what a business should decide about its catalog.
- Project 6: search that finds the right things Study project 6 - learn how the built-in search engine indexes your content, plan which attributes of your classes are searchable, change one flag, rebuild the index with updatesearchindex.php, compare search results…
- Project brief template A copy-ready project brief for a website application on Exponential - goals, audiences, scope, content, features, hosting, security and data, budget range, timeline, roles and how proposals are judged - to start a…
- Publish meeting minutes after approval For editors in democratic services - publish the minutes of a meeting once they have been approved, relate them to the meeting page, mark the record complete, and handle drafts and corrections of minutes correctly.
- Reading path for web framework developers The order in which to read this audience's pages - an orientation day, the request and its pieces, data, the cross-cutting concerns, operations, and the bridge to other frameworks - with time estimates and the pages…
- Reseller models The eight ways to resell around Exponential - hosting reseller, managed service, white label, OEM product, extension and theme bundles, support contracts, training resale and referral only - compared by what you sell…
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