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Accessibility basics for themes The accessibility foundations every Exponential design needs: language and direction on html, landmarks and headings, a skip link, visible focus, contrast, alt text, forms, motion, zoom, and how the project tests (axe… Designers Theme design
Checklist: the theme extension is ready The checklist to run before a theme extension leaves your hands - structure, metadata, settings, license, Composer, packages, design quality and a clean repository - each item with the command or page that checks it. Designers Theme extensions
Dark mode overview How dark mode works in Exponential designs: color tokens with a light and a dark value, a theme attribute on html set before the first paint, light, dark and system choices, and what admin4 does as the reference… Designers Theme design
View modes The view modes content is shown in (full, line, embed, embed-inline and others), where each is used, the node/view and content/view templates behind them, which modes are view-cached, how the URL chooses one, and how… DevelopersDesigners Templates
Writing migrations in PHP A hands-on page for PHP developers - the migration class and its namespace, the context API, references between migrations, exceptions and transactions per engine, the kernel APIs a migration uses, one complete example… DevelopersPHP Developers Migrations
Override basics How template overrides work: a rule in override.ini names a source template, the template that replaces it and the conditions; where rule files live (siteaccess, extension, extension siteaccess); how the kernel finds… DevelopersDesigners Templates
CSP-safe design Designing so a strict Content Security Policy can be enforced: what the policy allows by default, the three rules (no inline script, no inline style, no third-party origins), the patterns that replace inline code, the… DevelopersDesigners Theme design
Layouts for designers The layouts editor from a designer's side: layouts, zones, blocks, collections and rules, how the pagelayout resolves and draws a layout, which templates draw what, and how a design takes over their markup. Designers Theme design
Tutorial: create a theme extension Build a complete theme extension from an empty folder, step by step: folders, metadata, design registration, a siteaccess that uses the design, a CSP-safe pagelayout, a stylesheet with tokens and dark mode, a script, an… DevelopersDesigners Theme design
Migrations for software engineers The migration model of Exponential 6.0.15 for engineers - ordered, recorded, checksum-guarded, captioned and committed changes - its architecture next to the .dba schema files and the upgrade steps, the design rules for… DevelopersSoftware Engineers Migrations
Extension development: the book (start here) A complete book on growing from user to builder, extension developer and theme developer with Exponential: finding ideas, building extensions with and without RAD tools, upgrading, forking ethically, releasing. DevelopersEnd usersDesignersApplication creators Extension development
User manual One question per page for the work in the Admin 4 administration - the tabs, the daily tasks of editors, and the tasks of administrators and site managers - with who may do it, the steps, what can go wrong and where to… EditorsAdministratorsEnd users User manual
Standards The standards Exponential follows and how well it complies (accessibility, security, privacy, web, internationalization, PHP, documentation, APIs, databases, Git, coding and testing), its architectural rules, and a… AdministratorsDevelopers Standards
Migrating to and from Exponential The migration hub. A verified table of every Exponential product and its versions, a decision guide, and one guide per path within the Exponential family and from or to other systems (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento… AdministratorsDevelopersProject managers Installation and upgrades
Examples Working examples for Exponential 6. Web server configurations that were checked, a cookbook of complete tasks, and more than two thousand reference pages generated from the code, covering template operators, fetch… AdministratorsDevelopers Examples
Migrations The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the same order, with a caption… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesTrainersPHP DevelopersSoftware EngineersDXP DevelopersIntegratorsDatabase Administrators Migrations
Trainers: start here Where everyone who teaches Exponential starts. What the trainer material is, how courses, modules and lessons are built, how to choose a course for a group, how to build the lab, and the rules every trainer keeps. Trainers Training
Course catalogue Every Exponential trainer course in one place, its audience, length, level, prerequisites and modules, with a suggested order and combinations for common groups. Trainers Training
Migrations versus migrating a site The word migration means two different jobs in the Exponential documentation - migrations (schema and content changes of one site, written as files and applied with exp:migration:migrate) and migrating a site (moving or… AdministratorsDevelopersProject managersHosting companiesTrainersSoftware EngineersAdoptersIntegratorsDatabase Administrators Migrations
The Exponential code of conduct The code of conduct of the Exponential project - the Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions for partners and commercial conduct, AI-generated contributions, the contributor agreement (CLA) and trainers and… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersEnd usersPartnersAdvocatesDesignersSupportersTrainers The Exponential project

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