- Create a department editor role for a subtree Step by step - create one "Department editor" role and assign it to a department's user group so its editors can create, edit and publish only below the department's own folder.
- Deciding to adopt Exponential The landing page of the deciding stage for adopters - the license, longevity and support, who runs the site, the budget, and a written decision with an owner.
- Departments, roles and sections How an intranet maps departments onto Exponential - user groups for people, sections for areas of content, roles with limited policies, and subtree or section limitations so each department edits only its own pages.
- Designing hosting plans How to build Exponential hosting plans from technical building blocks: engine, database, storage, backups, caching, support and services; plan templates for shared, VPS, dedicated and managed offers, with limits taken…
- Designing search results How theme designers design the search page of an Exponential site - the form, the result count, one result per class through view modes, no results, long queries, pagination, the advanced search page, and filters when…
- Designs and siteaccesses How a request reaches a siteaccess (by path, host or port), where a siteaccess names its designs, and how several sites of one installation share or separate their looks.
- Digital sovereignty at a glance What digital sovereignty means for a public body choosing a content management system, and how Exponential measures up on each point (license, source, hosting, data location, external services, formats, databases…
- Donation options at a glance A side-by-side comparison of the ways a non-profit can take donations with an Exponential site - an external donation platform, shop items with ezpaypal (redirect to PayPal) and shop items with ezauthorize (an on-site…
- Donations and fundraising pages The honest options for taking donations on an Exponential site - there is no dedicated donation module; link to an external donation platform, or sell fixed donation items through the built-in shop with the ezpaypal…
- Evaluation checklist template for a public-sector CMS A copy-and-adapt checklist an evaluation panel uses to examine Exponential (or any CMS) against a tender's requirements, with the evidence to look for in the repository for each line.
- Exponential Intelligence for AI users The part of the AI, agents and agentic section about Exponential Intelligence (expai), the writing assistant of the administration interface - what it does, which providers it supports, how drafts and review work…
- ezinfo.php: who made it and which version The ezinfo.php metadata file - class name, the static info() method, the keys the administration reads, how it is read after extension.xml, the PHP 8 bare-key trap with a real fix, and how to check it.
- eZINI: reading settings The eZINI methods an extension uses - instance(), variable(), hasVariable(), variableArray(), group(), hasSection() - with their signatures, what they return when a setting is missing, and the template operator ezini().
- FAQ: accessibility Answers to the accessibility questions public bodies ask about Exponential - WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549, Section 508, VPATs, the administration, public designs, the online editor, content and accessibility statements - backed…
- Files and the File class How documents are stored in Exponential - the File class with its ezbinaryfile attribute, uploads from the upload page and the edit form, upload limits, file names, download links that show format and size, and…
- First steps Short how-tos in plain language for the everyday jobs in the Exponential administration - sign in, find your way, change a page, add news, pictures, documents and links, undo, hide, search, build a page with Layouts…
- GDPR basics The EU General Data Protection Regulation in outline for a business running Exponential - roles, principles and people's rights - mapped to the software features and commands that help, and to the decisions that remain…
- Getting found: local search for small businesses How people nearby find a small business online and what Exponential contributes - local search basics, page titles and descriptions with xrowmetadata, sitemaps with bcgooglesitemaps, robots.txt, readable addresses, the…
- Go-live checklist for a public site Everything to check before a public body opens an Exponential site to the public - content, accessibility, security, privacy, operations, monitoring and sign-off - as an actionable checklist with the page that explains…
- Grant-funded website project plan A project plan for a website paid for by a grant - goals tied to the mission, phases from discovery to handover, deliverables a funder can verify, the roles a non-profit needs, a timeline, risks and what happens after…
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