- Return on investment of stability How to express the value of a stable platform as a return on investment - avoided downtime, fewer emergency fixes, predictable upgrades - with the facts about Exponential that support each benefit and a worked…
- Reviewing and being reviewed How review works in the Exponential community - why 7x does many review rounds, how to get through them, squash and rebase, how community members can review others' pull requests, and how to give and take feedback…
- ROI worksheet A yearly worksheet for the owner of a running Exponential site - planned against actual costs and benefits, the sources of each figure, the result, and the decisions that follow. Template; every figure is your own.
- Runbook: slow site What to do when an Exponential site is slow: measure first with exp:benchmark, separate cold from warm, check the caches, OPcache, workers or PHP-FPM children, the database and the request logs, then apply the levers in…
- Schedules and cron in 7x SQLI Import How 7x SQLI Import 2.0 starts imports by itself - the schedule kinds from once to cron expressions, time zones, missed runs, the Schedules page, the cron parts sqliimport and expqueue - and how another system starts an…
- Scoring sheet template for CMS bids A scoring sheet template for comparing content management bids, with a score scale, evidence rules, a consensus step and a worked layout; every weight and score is a blank for your panel to fill.
- Searchable fields and indexing Which fields of public sector content classes to mark Searchable, how indexing on publish and delayed indexing work, how to rebuild the index, and the pitfalls (internal codes, hidden content, large imports).
- Sections and subtree limits When to limit staff access by section and when by subtree of the content tree, how each behaves when content moves, and how a public body with many departments, restricted areas and shared pages combines the two.
- Self-hosting on premise What a public body needs to run Exponential on its own servers: the requirements, the install paths, serving with Velocity or a traditional web server, the database, the regular operations, and the skills to plan for.
- Setting up the Approve event Every field of the Approve event (affected sections, languages and versions, approving users and groups, excluded groups) with the choice a public body usually makes for each, and the trigger and cronjob that make it…
- Several web servers behind a load balancer For IT teams in public bodies that put an Exponential site on several web servers behind a central load balancer or reverse proxy. What is shared and what stays local, trusted proxies, cron on one node, and deploys…
- Shared hosting How to offer Exponential on shared hosting: what the sources say works there (Apache or LiteSpeed with .htaccess, the setup wizard, SQLite or the panel's database), what usually does not (Velocity), and the settings…
- Sharing content across brands How several brands on one Exponential installation share content without copying it - separate folders, several locations, relations and embeds, shared header and footer layouts, shared media and users, and how editors…
- Shop settings walkthroughs Every settings file that shapes an Exponential store, with where overrides go, how to check the value that is really in effect, and a walkthrough page per file - shop.ini, site.ini ShopSettings, shopaccount.ini…
- Sign-in and sessions How sign-in and sessions work for public account holders and staff on an Exponential site - the sign-in pages, session lifetime and cookies, other sessions signed out after a password change, the Setup Sessions page…
- Siteaccess settings A siteaccess is one face of an installation - a public site, a language, the administration. How a request picks its siteaccess, which settings define one, and a complete commented example of a public siteaccess.
- Site down Runbook for a public website that does not serve pages - confirm, read which error page visitors get, find the cause (database, maintenance left on, missing libraries, an uncaught error, the web server or Velocity)…
- SLA options for Exponential hosting The service level commitments a host can choose to offer for Exponential sites (availability, response, restore, updates, security fixes), what each depends on technically, how to measure it, and an SLA template with…
- Smarty and the template language side by side A side-by-side table of Smarty syntax and the Exponential template language - output, modifiers and operators, assignment, defaults, conditions, loops, cycling, include, literal, delimiters, comments, capture, escaping…
- Spam protection for volunteer forms Keeping spam out of a non-profit's volunteer and contact forms on Exponential - the ezformtoken form token that is active by default, choosing between the hcaptcha and recaptcha datatypes, keys in override files, the…
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