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Handling hostile threads What an advocate does when a discussion about Exponential turns hostile, mocking or bad-faith - stay calm, answer once with facts, never attack, protect people, know when to leave - with de-escalation phrases and a… Advocates Advocacy and community
Handoff checklist The checklist of everything a theme designer hands to developers for an Exponential theme - inventory and mapping sheet, tokens with dark values, components with states, view matrix, image and block sheets, special… Theme designers Theme design
Housekeeping: cronjobs and queue tables The cronjobs that keep an Exponential database tidy and its queues moving - the parts of settings/cronjob.ini and what each script does to the database, the scripts no shipped part runs (session_gc.php, trashpurge.php… Database Administrators Database administration
Screenshots: what you may use Which screenshots of Exponential journalists and creators may publish and on what terms - the images in this help under the GNU FDL, the galleries on exponential.earth, the press kit's planned set, and your own… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Settings and INI for CMS developers For CMS developers, how Exponential is configured with INI files. It covers the file format, the scopes and the order in which they win, where a project's settings belong, reading and changing values safely with… CMS Developers CMS development
Tags and topics How to organize episodes by topic on an Exponential site - the Keywords datatype of the kernel, eztags on installations with that extension, topic pages and lists, and how a keyword field can fill the category of each… Podcasters, radio and streaming Podcasting and streaming
The source repositories Where the unpacked source of every package on the package server lives - sevenx-ezpackage, cjw_multisite-ezpackage and the ezwebin, ezflow, ezdemo, ezpaypal, ezstarrating, ezgmaplocation, ezwt and ezcomments -ezpackage… DevelopersPartnersDesigners Installation and upgrades
Deploying a DXP project The production deploy of a DXP project in order - pull, vendors without dev packages, migrations, public assets, admin and site builds, translations, cache clear and warm-up, reindex when needed - with the checks before… DXP Developers DXP development
Design QA checklist A checklist for theme designers to check a built Exponential theme against the design - on a development or preview siteaccess, page type by page type, in light and dark, at three widths, with real and stress content… Theme designers Theme design
Extensions you will write For CMS developers, the extensions a typical site project needs, seen from the project. These are a site extension with design and settings, and optionally a code extension with operators, fetch functions, modules… CMS Developers CMS development
How a release reaches the package server The path of a package from a commit in its source repository to a file on the package server - build, compare, copy, update index.xml, commit and push - for a fix to an existing package and for a new release folder… DevelopersPartners Installation and upgrades
Multilingual shows How to run a show in several languages on an Exponential site - translated episodes or separate shows per language, translatable media fields, one podcast feed per language with its Language field and siteaccess, and… Podcasters, radio and streaming Podcasting and streaming
Taking a course with a trainer What a learner should know about courses taught from the trainers' material - which courses exist and for whom, how a course is built, what to prepare, how to use the lessons before and after class, how assessments and… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Taking your own screenshots How a journalist or creator makes clean, honest screenshots of Exponential on an installation of their own - installing a demo site, which screens show the headline features, light and dark themes, sizes, file formats… Press, media and influencers Press and media
The SQL query cache What the optional SQL query cache of Exponential does for a database administrator - modes and storage, what is never cached, how writes invalidate results, why writes made outside Exponential require a clear, how to… Database Administrators Database administration
Contributing as a student Why and how a learner contributes to Exponential - the kinds of contribution that fit each learning path, what you need, the rules from CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct, how review works, the CLA for kernel code… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Development environment For CMS developers, a working development setup in a few commands. It covers the code as Git clones, a one-command install on SQLite, Velocity with PHP's built-in server engine, debug output and template settings, a… CMS Developers CMS development
Finding slow queries The tools Exponential gives a database administrator to find slow and repeated SQL - SQLOutput and SlowQueriesOutput in the debug output, MySQL's EXPLAIN through QueryAnalysisOutput, DebugTransactions, the SQL profiler… Database Administrators Database administration
Package server settings Every key of settings/package.ini [RepositorySettings] with its default and what reads it - the index address, its fallback, the vendor repository, and the download attempts, delays and timeouts - plus the proxy and… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Installation and upgrades
Quoting and reusing the documentation What journalists, authors and creators may do with Exponential's documentation - quote it, copy it, translate it, adapt it - under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3, the notice to keep, the older pages with other… AdvocatesPress, media and influencers Press and media

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