- Working with developers How theme designers and Exponential developers divide the work on a theme - who owns what, the shared vocabulary, working in the theme's Git repository, requests for fields and settings, reviewing templates against…
- Cron The DXP's cron runner (ibexa/cron) - the one crontab line that runs every scheduled job, which user runs it, logging, and what does and does not run there (no publishing scheduler ships with the DXP).
- Demo mode What changes on an installation that runs as a public demo (the environment variable EXP_DEMO_MODE=1) - administrator passwords cannot be changed or reset, the installers accept the published demo password, a banner…
- Holiday and seasonal hours Holiday closures, summer hours and other exceptions on a local business site - edited by hand, prepared in advance with scheduled publishing and hiding at a date, shown as a notice, and kept in step with outside…
- Moving a site to another engine How to move an existing Exponential site from one database engine to another - planning the maintenance window, the .dba dump and insert between SQL engines, the ezoracle transfer commands into Oracle, the bin/mongodb…
- Objection: "Can we find people who know it?" How to answer "nobody knows Exponential" or "we cannot hire for it" honestly - no invented developer counts, but the plain stack, the free learning material, the path from user to developer, training and the contributor…
- Project 9: roles for a restricted editor Study project 9 - create a user group and a test editor, build a role whose policies let the group edit only the club subtree, assign it with a limitation, sign in as the editor to prove what is allowed and what is…
- shopaccount.ini walkthrough The settings that decide which customer data form the checkout shows and which handler sends the order mail - HandlerSettings, AccountSettings with the ezuser, ezsimple, ezdefault and bcusauser handlers, Alias, and…
- The adoption timeline How adopters build a timeline for an Exponential adoption from their own measurements instead of guesses - the phases, what to measure in a rehearsal, buffers, fixed dates, and a template.
- Transcripts and captions How to publish transcripts of audio episodes and captions for video with Exponential - the transcript as text on the episode page or as a file, the missing caption track in the media template and three ways around it…
- Web servers and engines in the ecosystem The ways an Exponential site is served - Velocity with its Qbix, FrankenPHP and PHP built-in engines, and the traditional servers Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, Caddy, IIS, lighttpd, H2O and Traefik - with what each is for.
- What is on the package server The contents of the package server folder by folder, the release folders 6.0.0 to 6.0.15 with their package counts and sizes, and every one of the 44 packages of 6.0.15 with its type, size and index version.
- Workflows and triggers For CMS developers, how to run logic when content is published, a user registers or an order is placed. It covers workflows, events and triggers, the shipped event types, approval before publishing, the workflow…
- Working with clients and reviews How theme designers run design reviews with clients and editors for an Exponential site - what to review at each stage, reviewing on a preview siteaccess with real content, collecting feedback that can be acted on…
- Writing about the eZ Publish years How journalists write about the history of the code base correctly - eZ Publish only in the past tense, as a product its creator discontinued after almost 18 years, the generations from 1999 to 2021, historic titles…
- Your password and two-step sign-in Keep your Exponential account safe in plain steps - change your password, choose a good one, turn on two-step sign-in with an app or e-mail codes, and what to do when you lose your phone.
- Accessible players and pages How to make episode pages and players usable for everyone - controls on and autoplay off in the media field, what the HTML5 player template gives you, embedded players, headings, link texts with format and size, images…
- Content modeling first steps for adopters The first steps of designing an Exponential content model during an adoption - inventory, content types and their fields, relations, the content tree, languages and sites, and the mistakes of copying the old system…
- Forms and information collection For CMS developers building contact forms, polls and lead forms without code, using information collection. It covers collector attributes, the form and result templates, the collect.ini settings for mail, display…
- Messenger and notifications Background work in the DXP - Symfony Messenger with the ibexa/messenger transport (database table by default, sync on SQLite), consuming messages, failed messages, and ibexa/notifications for user notifications such as…
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