- Handover when volunteers change How a small group hands its Exponential site from one volunteer team to the next without losing access or knowledge - what to hand over, retiring accounts with Check user accounts and Deactivate and move, changing…
- Hardening an Exponential site for a public body For administrators and hosting teams of public sites - the hardening layers of Exponential in the order to work through them (web server, settings and secrets, administration, sign-in, sessions, headers, CSP, uploads…
- How the community works The landing page of the how-it-works part of the community section - who decides what, how releases happen, how security reports are handled, the licenses, recognition and credit, and how the work is funded.
- If and conditions Conditional output with if, elseif and else; the comparison and logic operators used in conditions (eq, ne, gt, lt, and, or, not); testing for content, emptiness and existence; and conditions inside attribute values.
- ISPConfig ISPConfig is not mentioned in the Exponential sources and is not placed in any tier. This page says so plainly, lists what an ISPConfig-managed server must provide for an Exponential site, maps each need to a generic…
- Launching the adopted site The landing page of the launching stage for adopters - the launch checklist, rolling out to editors, roles and permissions, and the first 90 days after go-live.
- Least-privilege principles Seven working rules for giving public-sector staff only the access they need in Exponential, each tied to the feature that supports it, with the rights that deserve special care.
- Licensing models, as options The licensing models a theme seller can choose between - all GPL, GPL code with separately licensed assets, GPL plus a paid service agreement, proprietary - with what each allows, its risks and who uses it. Options, not…
- Links between your sites Why a link from one brand's page into another brand's content can lead to a 404 on a multisite installation, how the ezurlmultisite extension sends visitors to the right site, and what to test before launch.
- Listing upcoming events Template fetches that list upcoming events on an Exponential site - by start time from now on, for one calendar or the whole site, for one place or tag - with cache expiry so past events drop out, and an RSS feed of…
- Logs and error references How a customer's "Something went wrong" becomes a log entry your team can act on, which logs Exponential keeps, how they are rotated and masked, and what support staff should ask a customer.
- Metadata and tagging of documents Which metadata public documents need and how to store it with real Exponential datatypes - title, date, reference, type, language, owner, topics with eztags, search engine metadata with xrowmetadata - and how editors…
- Moving a site between hosts Moving an Exponential 6 site from one server or host to another without changing its version: what to copy, what to fetch fresh, the settings that name the old server, the commands in order, and the checks afterwards.
- Moving a template from Smarty A porting guide - a typical Smarty list template translated to the template language in three steps (variables, data from fetch, the loop with conditions, links, dates and escaping), each step rendered on a development…
- News and announcements How an intranet publishes company news and announcements with Exponential - article classes, a news folder per audience, a front page built with the layouts editor or ezflow, timed publishing, notifications, feeds, and…
- Non-profit data protection checklist A data protection checklist for a non-profit's Exponential site, to work through at launch, yearly and whenever a form or service is added - inventory, minimization, access and two-factor login, retention and deletion…
- No required external services Exponential serves pages and runs its administration without any outside service: no license server and no third-party scripts or fonts in the admin. This page lists what does reach the internet, and only when you use…
- Notifications and subscriptions How people with an account follow news, notices or any folder on an Exponential site and get e-mail when something is published - Notify me, My notification settings, digests, the notification cronjob, publishing…
- Online stores: start here For shops that already sell on Exponential's built-in store: the Store dashboard, the daily order routine, products, prices and VAT, payments and shipping, and who on the team owns each part.
- Order operations Operating orders in an Exponential store beyond the daily routine - the order lifecycle in data and statuses, status transitions limited by policy, archive against remove against purge, and the order mail and receipts…
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