- What the template language is The Exponential template language (eZ TPL, ezpl) in one page - a Smarty-like language for .tpl files, where it is used (designs, module views, mail, PDF), the parts of the engine in lib/eztemplate, and what it does…
- Why businesses rely on Exponential The reasons, each with its source, why an organization that earns money online can rely on Exponential: a long-lived code base, published versions that never change, few moving parts, speed under load, evidence when…
- Why most of the changes are small Why an extension written years ago usually needs only small changes for Exponential 6: the extension system, class names and settings stayed, and the changes come from PHP and the browser.
- Why stability matters What an unstable website costs a business, and the concrete things in Exponential's history, release rules and shipped tools that keep a site stable for years.
- Words explained The ideas behind the screens of Exponential, one idea per page and without jargon - content items and the tree, drafts and publishing, the site and the administration, roles, caches, extensions, and hosting with domains…
- Working with your administrator What a show needs from the site's administrator, and the exact settings behind each request - feed permissions, audio formats, upload class mapping, download behavior, scheduling cronjobs, upload limits and embed…
- Approvals and review The owner's view of review before publishing on an Exponential site - when an approval workflow is worth it, the choices in the Approve event (sections, languages, new or changed content, approvers, excluded groups)…
- Choosing datatypes For CMS developers modelling content, which datatype to choose for each kind of field. It covers the 35 kernel datatypes and the extension datatypes of the default distribution, the choices that are hard to undo, and…
- Component inventory How theme designers keep an inventory of the components of an Exponential theme - what counts as a component, a template for each entry with states, tokens and template, how the inventory maps to templates and CSS, and…
- Content items and the tree Why everything on an Exponential site is a content item of some type, how items are arranged in a tree like folders on a computer, what fields are, and how one item can appear in two places - explained with everyday…
- History and rollback The history of a target in Setup > Static publishing - every publish and rollback, the tags and the commits - and going back to an earlier publish as a new commit, for experts, with Verify it's you.
- Installing a study site in one command A learner's walk through the documented quick start - get the code with Composer, install on SQLite with exp:install, serve the site with the php engine, sign in, change the password - with the expected output of each…
- Is Exponential a fit? Signals that Exponential fits an adopter's needs and signals that it may not, based on the features the README lists, the supported platforms and the product family - with the pages to check each signal.
- Merchant path A reading and decision path for the merchant who owns an Exponential store - the decisions only the owner can make, in order, with the page that explains each and what to hand to the developer.
- Migrations: the status and the history Setup > Migrations in the administration. The status page with every migration and its state, the history of the runs with their captions, commits and pushes, the page of one run that follows it live, and the dashboard…
- Migrations in an extension or package Ship migrations inside an extension (extension/<name>/migrations/) or an installed package, generate them with --source=extension:<name>, and make a site's migrations wait for them with requires.
- Monitoring What an owner should expect from the monitoring of an Exponential site - checks from outside and on the server, the pages a person reads each week, and who receives an alert - with the questions to ask your host.
- Newsroom reading path The pages a newsroom reads in its first week, month and quarter on Exponential, in order, with what each one is for and who should read it.
- Offboard someone who leaves Close the access of someone who leaves the same day from the console - disable the account so every session ends, check the sessions, two-step sign-in and roles, record what happened, and remove the account later only…
- Planning an integration A planning guide and template for site owners who connect an Exponential site with another system - CRM, shop system, newsletter tool, app, intranet directory, analytics - choosing the interface, the account and…
Documentation license
This documentation is free documentation, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later.
Exponential Copyright © 1998-2026 Exponential Foundation and 7x