- 7x and the Exponential Foundation, explained for advocates How to explain the two organizations behind Exponential, the company 7x and the nonprofit Exponential Foundation, without mixing them up, with sentences to use, mistakes to avoid and what the sources do not say.
- Accounts, passwords and two-step sign-in The owner's rules for the team's accounts on an Exponential site - personal accounts, the shipped password rules, two-step sign-in as an option or a requirement, lost phones and locked accounts - and what to ask the…
- Add roles and policies A migration that creates the role News editor with its policies, limits two of them to the class news_article, assigns it to the user group Editors found by remote id, and removes role, policies and assignment in down().
- Adopters checklists All adoption checklists in one place - evaluation, decision, planning, migration, launch and after launch - with short versions to copy and links to the full pages.
- Building an episode class A suggested content class for podcast or video episodes, built only from datatypes Exponential ships - title, show notes, audio or video, artwork, guests, release date, transcript, license - with the settings that make…
- Community checklists Checklists for Exponential community members to copy - before posting, before filing a bug, before a pull request, before answering, before publishing an extension, and before running an event.
- Designing for editors Design rules that keep an Exponential theme working when editors, not designers, fill it - variable text length, optional fields, images of any shape, rich text, translations, and the field descriptions that guide…
- Ecosystem checklists Checklists for working in the Exponential ecosystem - before describing a product or distribution, before depending on a package, before publishing a package, and before quoting a number about the ecosystem.
- Import, export and bulk changes exp:user:export writes the accounts the list filters select as CSV or JSON without any password, exp:user:import creates accounts from a CSV or JSON file exactly like exp:user:create, and exp:user:bulk disables…
- Installing with the skeleton Step by step from an empty folder to a running DXP project - create-project or git clone, environment, database, install command, permissions, assets, JWT keys, GraphQL schema, reindex and the first start - with a save…
- Learning path: designer A step-by-step learning path for design and front-end students, built from existing help pages - what a design is, the design cascade, the pagelayout, templates and overrides, stylesheets and scripts, accessibility and…
- Links and base path Why a GitHub project site lives below /<repository>/, how relative links and a base path differ, which to choose, and what happens to links the static copy cannot hold.
- Maintenance agreement template A template for the agreement that keeps an Exponential site current - release updates, security fixes, PHP upgrades, extension upkeep, checks after each update, reports and the yearly review - with fields to fill in…
- Mobile and apps The owner's view of reaching people on phones and through apps with an Exponential site - a responsive site first, then an app or front end on the REST API or remote services, feeds and repeat visits - with the…
- Security basics The owner's view of security on an Exponential site - what the software already does by default, the few things only your organization can decide, who should do what, and where the detailed guides are.
- SQLite 3 for database administrators What a database administrator needs to know about SQLite 3, the default database of Exponential 6.0.x - what the eZSQLite3DB driver adds to the library, the four files of a database, the connection PRAGMAs and why each…
- The content model For CMS developers new to Exponential, the whole content model on one page. It covers classes, attributes and datatypes, objects, versions and translations, nodes in the content tree, sections, object states and how…
- The owner's year at a glance One page that puts the site owner's recurring work on a calendar: what happens every day, week, month and quarter, and what to plan once a year, with the page that explains each item and who usually does it.
- What the Editor role allows The roles an account in the Editors group has (Editor, Member, Member management, Editor account requests) and, in plain words, every permission of the Editor role: creating, editing, hiding, restoring, uploading many…
- Why it is called Exponential The facts behind the product name - the announcement of 11 August 2025, the rename in the repository the next day, the first release under the name, what changed and what did not, and how to write about it without…
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