- Bulk-import members from CSV Create many member accounts from a spreadsheet with exp:user:import - prepare the CSV without passwords, check every row in a dry run, import with the activation mail or as disabled accounts, and deal with skipped and…
- Caches explained Why a site keeps ready-made copies of its pages, why that sometimes shows an old page after you published, what you can safely do about it from the browser, and when to ask somebody else - with a bakery comparison.
- Choosing hosting for a small business Hosting options for a small business website on Exponential in plain words - shared hosting, a managed host, a small virtual server or the partner's servers - what each means for you, what Exponential needs from a…
- Color palettes and ramps How theme designers build a color palette for an Exponential theme - brand colors, ramps of tints and shades, role tokens chosen from the ramps, dark values, status colors, and how to check contrast before anything is…
- Exponential by the numbers The figures about Exponential that the documentation has actually counted - commits, releases, packages, languages, repositories, the history ledgers and the documented Velocity measurements - each with its date, how it…
- Forms and collected information The owner's view of forms on an Exponential site - contact, feedback, poll and lead forms with the information collector, who reads and answers submissions, mail to the right team, spam protection, exporting and…
- Getting help step by step The order in which to look for help with Exponential - the help in your administration, the documentation, the community, the issue trackers, and paid support from 7x or a partner - with what each step can and cannot…
- Image and file guidelines House rules for images and files on an Exponential site that an owner can hand to editors - which format for what, what the site does with an upload, sizes, names, alternative texts, documents for download and rights…
- Images, files and downloads Which images, style sheets, scripts, fonts and downloads go into a static copy, how storage images of published content are copied, what is never copied, and how to keep a build within the host's size limits.
- Install items and handlers What an install item in package.xml is, how the kernel finds the handler for it through package.ini HandlerAlias, what each shipped handler (ezcontentclass, ezcontentobject, ezextension, ezfile, ezsql, eziniaddon…
- Migrations: remotes and deploys Setup > Migrations > Remotes and Deploys in the administration. Add the other installations this one deploys its migrations to with the wizard, test their connection, deploy to a selection or a group all at once and in…
- MySQL and MariaDB: utf8mb4, the connection charset and InnoDB The character set and storage engine details of Exponential on MySQL and MariaDB - why the database should be utf8mb4 while the connection uses utf8 (utf8mb3), what the charset warning means and how to see it…
- Questions adopters should ask The questions an adopter should ask before choosing Exponential - of 7x, of a partner, of a hosting company, of the community, and of themselves - with the documentation that already answers some of them.
- Resetting and rebuilding your study site How a learner saves a study site before a risky exercise and starts over afterwards - a backup of the SQLite database and the files, a restore, a fresh install with exp:install --force, a dry run first, keeping your own…
- Reviewing your provider each year A yearly review of the host and partner of an Exponential site - the evidence to collect, the questions to ask, a simple score, what to do with the result, and a record to keep.
- Rich text For CMS developers, how rich text works in Exponential. Text is stored as XML (ezxmltext), edited in the Online Editor, drawn as HTML by one template per tag, and extended with custom tags and classes. It also covers…
- Show notes template Copyable show notes templates for an interview episode, a solo or news episode and a live or video episode, with a short feed description template and a list of what to fill in before publishing.
- Siteaccesses: site and admin What a siteaccess is on the DXP, the two the skeleton installs (site and admin), how configuration is resolved through default, groups, the siteaccess and global, and how to add a second site or language.
- Talking points: open source and licensing How to talk correctly about Exponential's licenses, the GPL v2 or later for the code and the GNU FDL 1.3 or later for the documentation, what they allow and require, how contributions are licensed, and the mistakes to…
- The import editor of 7x SQLI Import Creating and changing an import in the administration with the import editor of 7x SQLI Import 2.0 - the six steps with a worked example, the catalogue of source types, conflict rules, undo days, notifications…
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