- Planning your website Plan a website on Exponential in seven steps: goals, audiences, content model, sites and languages, design, features and operations, with a one-page planning sheet to fill in.
- Prices and currencies How an Exponential store stores prices, sells in one or several currencies, converts with exchange rates and rounds amounts - and the decisions a business makes about it.
- Prices and currencies Changing prices, currencies and exchange rates in a running Exponential store - who may do it, how to plan a price change, keeping automatic prices and rates up to date, and the checks after every change.
- Processing volunteer applications The volunteer coordinator's routine with Exponential's collected information - who may read applications (infocollector/read), the overview with its figures, reading one application, answering, exporting to CSV safely…
- Publication schemes How to build a publication scheme (a guide to the information a public body publishes) in Exponential, as one page per class of information with links, owners and formats, and how to keep it accurate.
- Publish a public notice with an expiry date For editors and the administrators who set it up - publish a public notice that disappears by itself after its end date, using a hide date attribute and the hide.php cronjob, and know the alternatives when automatic…
- Quarterly checklist The quarterly checklist for the owner of an Exponential site - a restore test, an access review, extension updates, a content audit, accessibility spot checks, costs against budget and the follow-up of the yearly…
- Questions to ask a partner A copy-ready list of questions for interviews and requests for proposal with implementation, hosting and support partners for an Exponential site - experience, approach, hosting, security, data protection, updates…
- Recent content Dashboard > Recent content - the newest content of the whole site, newest first, with what is held for review, drafts waiting for a date and who submitted what from where; filters, page sizes up to 1000 and actions on a…
- Repository name, description and topics Choose a repository name, a one-line description and GitHub topics that let people find a theme, with the choices the published Exponential themes made.
- Requirements checklist A copy-ready business requirements checklist for an Exponential project, grouped by area (content, editing, users, store, forms, mail, languages, sites, search, apps, operations, security, accessibility), with the…
- REST API v1 and v2 for businesses The REST content API of Exponential 6.0.15 explained for decision makers - what v1 and v2 do, what changed for existing apps (nothing for their answers), the permission checks added, the deprecated ezprestapiprovider…
- Roles and permissions worksheet A worksheet for deciding who in a non-profit may do what on its Exponential site - the jobs (author, editor, approver, layouts editor, form processor, account manager, translator, administrator), the shipped roles…
- RSS feeds How a public-sector site publishes news and notices as RSS feeds with Exponential's RSS exports in Setup > RSS - sources, formats, items, the feed address, caching - and when to read other bodies' feeds with RSS imports.
- Runbook: disk full What to do when the disk of an Exponential site fills up: find what grew (storage, caches, logs, database, backups), free space safely with the cache and log commands, never delete storage or settings, and prevent a…
- Search box and results page How to build an accessible search box and results page for a public site with Exponential: the form that sends SearchText to content/search, limiting to a part of the site with SubTreeArray, the results template, empty…
- Sections and roles for intranet content How to keep internal content internal in Exponential: a section for intranet content that the Anonymous role cannot read, a Staff role that can, department sections for restricted material, and how to test from both…
- Security checklist A security checklist for a public body running Exponential - accounts and sign-in, hardening, headers and CSP, logging and audit, updates, the server and reporting - built on the security standards page and the…
- Settings that live in an extension Keep a site's configuration in a settings extension under version control - the folder layout, global and per-siteaccess settings, moving existing settings in with exp:ini move-all, and what stays out (secrets).
- Setting up a development installation A development installation in a few commands: Git clones, Composer, exp:install on SQLite, Velocity, debug settings, and the rules that keep it apart from live.
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