- Local businesses glossary The words a local business owner meets when getting a website on Exponential, explained in plain language - from administration, alias and API key to siteaccess, sitemap, structured data, VAT type and workflow - each…
- Newsletter routine The routine of every newsletter issue and the monthly look at the lists on an Exponential site with cjw_newsletter - write, preview, test group, approval, scheduled send, archive - with who does each step and a…
- Partners, community and ecosystem The three circles of people around Exponential - partners, the community and the greater ecosystem - in the project's own words, how they overlap, and how a person or a company moves from one to the next.
- Reading paths for CMS developers For CMS developers, reading orders through this section and the related books by goal and available time. They cover a first day, a first week, coming from another CMS, building a first site, going headless, and going…
- Reading paths for theme designers Ordered reading lists for theme designers by situation - visual designers who do not code, designers who write CSS and templates, designers redesigning a running site, designers of themes for publication, and designers…
- Site packages glossary The words of the site packages help in one place, from .ezpkg and package.xml to installer source, package server, index.xml and RemotePackagesIndexURL, each with the page that explains it.
- Supported engines and versions The six databases Exponential 6.0.x supports, in the project's official order, with the three version numbers that matter for each (the setup wizard's floor, the practical minimum of the current drivers and the versions…
- The adoption roadmap The six stages of adopting Exponential on one page - evaluate, decide, plan, migrate, launch, live with it - with the outcome of each stage, who usually owns it, the gate before the next stage, and the pages to use.
- The Exponential ecosystem map How the parts of the Exponential ecosystem connect - from PHP and Composer through the kernel, Velocity and the bundled extensions to the Platform line, sites and their users - with what depends on what and where each…
- Upgrades with your provider How a site owner works with a host or partner who carries out the upgrades - what to agree, what to ask before and after each upgrade, what evidence to expect, and the decisions that stay with you.
- What is not built in The honest list of what an Exponential site does not do for a podcast or a stream - no transcoding, no live ingest, no season and episode numbers in the feed, no transcript tag, no per-listener statistics, some audio…
- What the DXP ships and what it does not The definitive list of what Exponential Platform DXP installs, read from the metapackage's requirements, and what it does not include - no layouts editor, no approval workflow, no scheduler, no Exponential 6 kernel…
- Why Exponential supports PHP 7.4 Supported - PHP 8.0 to 8.5; usable without support - PHP 7.4 (Exponential 6.0.15 and later). Who this is for, what works on PHP 7.4 and what needs PHP 8 (a table per feature), how one Composer metapackage picks the…
- Add a class attribute A migration that adds the attribute subtitle to the class news_article at the right position, gives every existing object the new field, and removes attribute and values again in down().
- Adoption by organization size How adopting Exponential differs for an individual, a small team, a larger organization and a public body - the typical setup, who does the work, what to read first, and what to skip.
- AI, agents and agentic glossary The words of the AI, agents and agentic section explained in one place - agent, agentic workflow, data policy, draft, expai, expservices, lane, model, probe, prompt injection, provider, scope, service tool, staged…
- A short history of the Exponential ecosystem How the Exponential ecosystem came to be, in the past tense - the code base that began as eZ Publish and was discontinued by its creator, the community that kept it alive, 7x's stewardship from 2023, the renaming to…
- Choosing a host How the owner of a running Exponential site chooses a new host - what the site needs, the questions that decide the hosting model, what to check beyond the technology, how to compare offers and how the move works.
- Choosing a learning path The four learning paths for students - editor, administrator, developer and designer - who each one suits, what you need before you start, how long each takes, how they build on each other, and which study projects…
- Choosing an engine A decision guide for database administrators - which of the six supported databases fits a given Exponential site, from one machine with SQLite to several web servers on PostgreSQL, MariaDB or MySQL, and when MongoDB or…
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