- What to ask your host The questions a site owner should put to the company that hosts an Exponential site - versions, updates, backups, restores, monitoring, security, support and exit - with what a good answer contains, for a yearly review…
- Artwork and episode images Where show artwork and episode images go in Exponential - the feed's Artwork address written as itunes:image, the RSS 2.0 image of other exports, image fields of episode classes and their variations on the site - and…
- Comparing Exponential on facts How adopters compare Exponential with other systems fairly - same requirements, same evidence, documented facts only, total cost over years, and the traps of feature lists and marketing claims.
- Dependencies and install order How a site package declares the packages it needs (require type ezpackage with min-version), how the setup wizard and the kickstarter fetch them, how min-version is compared, and the exact order in which packages are…
- Exponential Basic in the ecosystem Exponential Basic's place in the ecosystem - a simple CMS from the old 2.x line for learning, personal use and small sites, its repository and databases as described, and how it differs from Exponential 6.
- Extensions explained What extensions, designs, themes and templates are, a plain list of add-ons that ship with Exponential and what each does for a non-technical person, what is not available as an extension, and how to ask for one.
- For site administrators What the exp:user commands give a site administrator who already manages accounts in the administration - when the console is faster, the commands for daily work, the safety rules, and a weekly routine.
- From design tool variables to CSS custom properties How to carry the variables of a design tool (colors, sizes, spacing, modes) into the token stylesheet of an Exponential theme - one naming scheme, light and dark modes as two value sets, an export table, the tokens.css…
- Images and image aliases For CMS developers, how images are modelled, stored and scaled. It covers image attributes against image objects, the media library, image aliases in image.ini, the converters, alternative text, responsive output in…
- Member areas and registration What a site owner decides and runs when visitors get accounts on an Exponential site - open or approved registration, e-mail verification, the Member role, members-only areas, unfinished registrations, account clean-up…
- Migrations: the migration editor Setup > Migrations > Editor step by step with screenshots. Create a YAML migration without a shell - name it, choose where it goes, add steps with the form of each step type, reorder and remove them, check it, preview…
- MySQL and MariaDB read replicas How Exponential sends read queries to MySQL or MariaDB replicas with UseSlaveServer and the SlaveServer and SlaverServer keys, how a replica is chosen, what replication lag means for editors and visitors, and what the…
- SEO checks What a site owner checks so search engines find and understand the site - what Exponential already does (readable addresses, redirects after moves, robots.txt, feeds), what editors control, what to ask the site builder…
- SEO on a static site How a static copy keeps what search engines need - sitemap.xml, robots.txt, canonical and social card links on the public address, redirect pages for old addresses and aliases - and the optional minify, precompress and…
- Sharing one study site with a class For study groups and classes that share one Exponential installation - why one installation per learner is safer, how to share well when you must (accounts per learner, limited roles, demo mode when everyone is an…
- Staying informed How community members keep up with Exponential - releases and changelogs, the history chronicle, GitHub notifications, Packagist, the commit feed on the developers' landing page, and where announcements are discussed.
- Talking points: security How to talk about Exponential's security honestly, as a process with evidence rather than a promise, with sourced points on vulnerability reporting, supported versions, the Content Security Policy, the audit trail…
- The admin UI The administration interface of the DXP at /adminui/ for developers - what editors and administrators do there, what the se7enxweb fork changes, how its assets are built and translated, and what to rebuild after an…
- What the sources do not say The questions about Exponential, 7x and the Exponential Foundation that no public source used by this documentation answers - usage numbers, customers, governance, budgets, release dates, comparisons, the reasons behind…
- What to ask your partner The questions a site owner should put to the implementation partner or developer who built or maintains an Exponential site - the code they made, updates, documentation, support, ownership and handover - with what a…
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