- 7x in three stages: 2014, 2022, 2023 Why public sources give three different years for the start of 7x, and how to write it - the idea in 2014 with se7enx.com registered, the start of the project in 2022, the launch in December 2023 - with the source of…
- A free site for your user group Give your local Exponential user group or meetup a website that costs nothing and that several organizers can keep up to date - edited in Exponential, published to GitHub Pages under the group's own account.
- Audit and hygiene exp:user:audit shows the user audit log rows about an account or by it, filtered by event, result and dates; exp:user:hygiene counts the accounts per state, each with the exp:user:list command that lists them.
- Build, preview and publish Build a target in the background and follow its progress, check the build - what changes with sizes, the report, the size against GitHub's limits, the copy itself - then publish it or throw it away.
- Content calendar How a site owner plans what goes on the site and when - a calendar kept outside the site, linked to drafts, approvals, scheduled publishing, layouts with a time rule and newsletters inside it - with a weekly planning…
- Designing view modes How theme designers plan the views of each content class - full, line, embed, embed-inline and custom modes such as card - with a view matrix, how few modes a design really needs, and what to hand the developer.
- Environment variables Every environment variable the DXP skeleton's guide documents - application, database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), JWT, search engine, HTTP cache, application cache, mail, sessions and CORS - and the rules for keeping…
- Handover checklist What the owner of an Exponential site must receive when a partner or host hands the site over - at the end of a build, at the end of a contract, or to a new provider - access, code, data, settings, records and…
- Managing members Editors create, edit, enable, disable, move and remove the accounts of the site's front-end members in the Members group, through the role Member management; the accounts of administrators and editors stay out of reach…
- Migrations: a tour of Setup > Migrations A guided tour of every screen of Setup > Migrations with screenshots - the tabs, what each one is for, the dashboard block, the Recording bar and the website sidebar - and a table that says which page to open for each…
- Objects, nodes and locations For CMS developers, the difference between a content object and its nodes (locations), the main node, the content tree, sort order, hiding and removing. It also covers which ID to use in templates, PHP and imports.
- Security checklist for owners A quarterly security checklist for the owner of an Exponential site, written as questions to ask and evidence to receive, with the page behind each item.
- Seed content for a new site A migration that publishes the starting content of a site - a folder and its first articles - by remote id, only what is missing, in the language of the content root, so every new installation and every developer's copy…
- Setting up the show structure Step by step - create the folders for a show, its seasons and its guests in the content tree, describe the show on its folder, decide where the audio files live, and check that the structure matches the feed you will…
- SQLite: the write queue and locking How the SQLite driver of Exponential 6.0.15 queues concurrent writers with a lock file and BEGIN IMMEDIATE, how long a transaction waits (SQLiteTransactionWait) and how that relates to Velocity's and PHP-FPM's request…
- The REST API for owners What a site owner needs to know about the REST API of Exponential - what it serves, reads at v1 and v2 and writes at v2, how programs authenticate, why permissions still apply, who controls the credentials, and what to…
- Try Exponential and publish a free site A low-risk way to evaluate Exponential - install it, build a small site, and publish it as a static site on GitHub Pages for free, so your team can judge the editing and the result without buying hosting.
- Where the facts live: sources every advocate cites A lookup table of the sources behind every common claim about Exponential (license, releases, PHP, databases, security, languages, accessibility, features, history, community), with how to check each one yourself.
- Your first site: three ways The three ways a learner gets a first Exponential site - the public demo, the one-command install on your own computer, and the browser setup wizard - plus Git clones for future developers, with what each needs, what…
- 7x for reporters The company 7x for journalists - what it is in its own words, what it does for Exponential, what it sells and what stays free, how to name and describe it, what to ask it, and what the public sources do not say about it.
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