- Registration and account approval How outside users get accounts on an Exponential extranet - open registration with e-mail verification, the administrator's "New user registered" mail with signed approve and reject links, an Approve workflow that holds…
- Release line and support policy Which Exponential versions are maintained, how releases and security fixes reach you, which PHP versions are supported, and what that means for a business planning years ahead.
- Release policy and version numbers What a version number of Exponential promises to a public body - permanent tags, the next release as the only fix, the last position counting on, changelogs per version - and how to use that in a contract and an asset…
- Responsive sites What makes an Exponential site work well on phones and tablets - responsive designs, image sizes and formats, fast pages, accessible forms, and a test plan a business can run itself.
- RFP outline: a tender skeleton for a public-sector CMS A complete skeleton for a request for proposals (RFP) for a web content management system and its services, section by section, with what goes in each and which clause templates and requirement pages fill it.
- ROI example assumptions A worked one-year ROI calculation for a running store on Exponential, with every input clearly labeled as an example assumption, the arithmetic step by step, a sensitivity table, and how to replace each figure with your…
- Roles, policies and limitations How Exponential decides who may do what - roles made of policies, policies limited by section, subtree, class, owner, language, siteaccess or state, and roles assigned to groups - explained for public-sector web teams…
- Runbook: site down What to do when an Exponential site returns errors or nothing: identify the error page, check the engine, the database, maintenance mode, vendor and permissions, read the right log, fix and verify.
- Set the minimum password length to 12 Step by step - raise Exponential's minimum password length from the shipped 10 to 12 (the OWASP ASVS 4.0.3 level 1 value) or more, without locking anyone out, and check that new passwords follow it.
- Settings scopes and the order they win in The places a settings file can live - default, extension, siteaccess, the per-site folders inside extensions, and the global override - the exact order they are read in, and how to choose the right one for a change.
- Shared editing with volunteers How a small group lets several volunteers edit its Exponential site safely - one account per person, a few simple roles limited to sections, two-step sign-in, optional approval before publishing, versions to undo…
- Staff intranets with Exponential What a public body needs for a staff intranet and how Exponential provides it: a siteaccess that requires sign-in, sections and roles for internal content, sign-in options (local accounts, LDAP handler, two-step…
- Storage layout What an Exponential installation keeps on disk, which directories must be writable, which hold customer data and which can be thrown away, and how a multi-site installation spreads logs and caches.
- Submitting to podcast directories What Exponential provides when a show is submitted to Apple Podcasts and other directories - a stable feed address with the elements Apple requires - what happens outside Exponential, and the checks to make before and…
- Supporter newsletter with cjw_newsletter Running a non-profit's supporter and volunteer newsletters with cjw_newsletter in Exponential - systems, lists and editions as content, double opt-in, a rehearsal that writes mail to files, switching to real sending…
- Take the site into maintenance for an upgrade Step by step - switch a public website into maintenance mode for a planned upgrade with a clear message for citizens, an expected end, access for testers and the administration, and check that visitors get the 503 page.
- Talking points: Exponential Layouts Sourced talking points about Exponential Layouts, the visual page builder (layouts, zones, blocks, mappings, shared layouts, drafts), a one-minute demo, the credit to Netgen, and what not to claim.
- The anatomy of a design extension Every folder and file of a theme extension - templates, override templates, stylesheets, scripts, images, the settings that register it and its override rules - shown on the public sevenx_themes_simple theme.
- The audit trail of migration runs Where a migration run leaves its traces - the tables exp_migration and exp_migration_run, the status file and the run log in git, var/log/migration.log and the audit events system.migration.* - and how to answer "what…
- The ladder: user, builder, extension developer, theme developer Four steps from using Exponential to extending it - user, builder, extension developer, theme developer - what each one does, what each needs to know, and which part of this book teaches it.
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