- Non-profits: start here The landing page for charities, foundations, community organizations and other non-profits that run their website on Exponential - what exists for grants, donations, volunteers, accessibility, transparency, newsletters…
- Non-technical people: start here The landing page for people who are not technical and want to use, run or pay for an Exponential site: plain words first, how-tos without a command line, how to choose hosting, what to hand to a host or partner, and…
- PHP Developers: start here Where PHP developers start - what Exponential is as a PHP code base, your first hour, the rules every PHP change follows, and a map of every page for PHP developers, from the request life cycle and PHP 8.0 compatibility…
- Podcasters, radio and streaming: start here Where podcasters, radio producers and streamers start. What an Exponential site does for a show - media hosting, HTML5 players, an Apple Podcasts feed, embedded streams, scheduling, approval, rights and access - what it…
- Press, media and influencers: start here Where journalists, editors, podcasters, video creators and other influencers start. What Exponential is in one paragraph, the press kit, the verified contacts, the rules for names and quotes, and a map of every page for…
- Resellers: start here The landing page for companies and freelancers who resell offers based on Exponential - hosting plans, managed sites, support contracts, white-label 7x services, OEM products, extension bundles and training - with the…
- Site packages: start here The start of the site packages help. What a site installer package is, the package server that publishes them, what sevenx_multisite and cjw_multisite install, the documentation a package must carry, how to make and…
- Software engineers: start here Where software engineers start who evaluate, architect, operate, review or contribute to Exponential as a system. The system in one paragraph, your first hour, five engineering rules, and a map of every page for…
- Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy of a site on GitHub Pages or any git host, built, checked and published from Setup > Static publishing, with…
- Students and learners: start here Where students, apprentices and self-taught learners start with Exponential. Learning paths for editors, administrators, developers and designers, a first site of your own, ten graded study projects, the Student partner…
- The Exponential project: start here A map of the Exponential project as its website exponential.earth presents it, mapped onto this help - what the project is, the FAQ, the licensing FAQ, the roadmap, where to get support, the community channels, how to…
- Theme designers: start here The landing page for theme designers - what this section adds to the designer help, a task-to-page index that maps every task of a theme designer to the right page, the pages of this section, and the pages from other…
- Two ways to build, every page The index of the "two ways to build" help - templates in a design extension and the Layouts editor - with the header and footer how-tos worked out on the real Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.
- User management from the console The start of everything about the exp:user commands in Exponential 6.0.15 - list, create, change, disable and remove user accounts, reset passwords, approve registrations, manage groups, roles, sessions and two-step…
- Web framework developers: start here Where developers who know Symfony, Laravel, Slim, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP, Laminas, Django, Rails, Express or Spring start with Exponential - what it is in their terms, the first hour, a map of every page that…
- Contribute your site package 7x and the Exponential Foundation strongly encourage you to submit your own site package by pull request to the repository behind the package server, so that every installation's setup wizard, kickstarter and ezupdate…
- Exponential in brief A five-minute briefing for journalists - what Exponential is, who stands behind it, where it came from, what is new, how it is licensed and where to check every fact - with the source of each statement.
- Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
- Velocity is part of Exponential 6.0.15 As of 6.0.15 the Velocity Internet and web application server is part of Exponential itself, installed with every copy and driven by one console command. Why that is a turning point, what it brings out of the box, how…
- Who is 7x? The company behind Exponential. Nearly thirty years with one code base, from eZ Publish in 1999 to Exponential 6 in 2026; the product, the CMS, CMF and e-commerce stack, the platform distributions, the extensions, the…
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