- A website without hosting costs In plain words - how Exponential can put your website online for free on GitHub Pages, what you do, what someone technical sets up once, and what such a site cannot do.
- Choose branch or GitHub Actions The two ways GitHub Pages receives a static build - served straight from a branch (gh-pages, or main with /docs), or deployed by a GitHub Actions workflow that the build writes - and which one to take.
- Choosing a class for episodes Which content class to use for podcast and video episodes - the Video class, the Audio and NG Video classes of media site installations, the File class, or a class of your own - with the fields each one has and what…
- Coming from eZ Platform or Ibexa For developers who know eZ Platform or Ibexa DXP and OSS. The content model you know is the same, and this page shows what differs in templates, configuration, extension points and delivery. It also covers the two…
- Community glossary The words community members meet around Exponential - from CLA, dev-main and eZpedia to manifest, partner, Share, squash and tag - each explained in one or two sentences with a link to the page that says more.
- Designing with real content Why and how theme designers draw with the content an Exponential site really holds - where to get it, how to measure the extremes, a set of stress cases, and how to test a design against content on a development…
- Ecosystem glossary The words of the Exponential ecosystem - from AdminUI, CMF and distribution to dual kernel, fork, legacy bridge, meta package, Nexus, Packagist, Qbix, site package and Zeta Components - each in one or two sentences with…
- Learning path: developer A step-by-step learning path for future Exponential developers, built from existing help pages and guides - a development installation from Git clones, the content model, the template language, settings, fetch…
- Move or rename INI settings A PHP migration that moves settings of an installation's override from site.ini to a file of their own and renames one on the way, keeps the value of each installation, writes the new file before it removes the old…
- Offboarding staff What to do on the last working day of an editor, freelancer or agency on an Exponential site - disable rather than remove, hand over drafts and approvals, revoke API keys and tokens, and check the result - with a record…
- PHP, Symfony and Node.js versions The versions a DXP project needs - PHP 8.3 or newer with its extensions and ini settings, Symfony 7.4, Composer 2, Node.js 20 and Yarn 1.22, the databases and the optional services - with the commands to check a machine…
- Quick reference for site owners Where the things a site owner looks at live in the administration of Exponential, with the menu path and the address: dashboard, content, store, users, workflows, logs, audit, maintenance, upgrade check and the help.
- Reading and changing database settings How to read the database settings an Exponential site really uses, find the file each value comes from, change them safely in the override files with exp:ini, and make every process (PHP-FPM, Velocity workers, cronjobs)…
- Restore test Why an owner should ask for a regular restore test of the site's backups, what a good test checks, how to keep the restored copy from mailing real people, and the record to keep.
- Sessions and sign-in security exp:user:sessions lists and ends the signed-in sessions of an account, exp:user:unlock resets the failed sign-in counter of a locked account, and exp:user:2fa shows, resets or removes two-step sign-in and passkeys.
- Setting up accounts for editors and administrators An administrator creates an editor's account in the Editors group, checks it by signing in as the new user, and hands the sign-in over so that the editor sets a password only they know; the same steps for further…
- Support agreement template A template for the support terms between a site owner and the host or partner of an Exponential site - channels, hours, severity levels, first responses, what is included and excluded, what the customer must provide…
- The history for long-form stories Material for features and long reads about Exponential's history - the arc from eZ Publish to Exponential 6, the chapters with their sources, the documented history pages month by month, angles that hold up, and the…
- The story of Exponential in two minutes A short, correct story of Exponential that an advocate can tell in 30 seconds, two minutes or five minutes, with every fact sourced and the wording rules for the old name.
- What AI in Exponential does not do The limits of AI in Exponential in one place - the assistant does not publish on its own, use a service account, upload images or files, or send anything before you configure a provider; agents get no rights beyond…
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