- Talking points: hosting, databases and freedom Sourced talking points about the freedom to choose where Exponential runs - six databases, operating systems in four tiers, web servers and engines, containers and hosting panels, moving between databases - and the…
- The website sidebar panel The Static publishing panel of the website sidebar (expwt) on the site's own pages - per target the last publish, whether this page is stale there and its public address - and Publish, which publishes only this page…
- Titles and descriptions with xrowmetadata Writing the title and description that appear in search results for each page of a local business site - what xrowmetadata adds to the edit form, what is shown when the fields are empty, writing tips with examples, and…
- Twig components What ibexa/twig-components adds to a DXP project - named groups of small components (script, stylesheet, template, controller, html, menu) configured in YAML and rendered with ibexa_twig_component_group - and how to use…
- URL aliases and routing For CMS developers, how an address reaches a page. It covers the module/view system URL, URL aliases made from the tree, the transformation settings, history aliases after moves, global aliases and wildcards for…
- Your first contribution Three small first contributions to Exponential, step by step - a corrected help page through Edit on GitHub, a well-made bug report through the Report an error page, and a first pull request with the right commit…
- Changing a page Change the text of an existing page in Exponential and publish it, in numbered steps without jargon - find the page, press Edit, change a field, preview, publish or keep as draft - with what to do when the form will not…
- Character sets and collations How Exponential stores text as UTF-8 on each of the six engines, which character set and collation to create, how the MySQL and MariaDB connection differs from the tables, how case-sensitive and case-insensitive…
- Choosing who runs it The four ways an adopter can have Exponential run - yourself, a hosting company, a partner, or 7x - what each takes from you, when it fits, and how to keep ownership whichever you choose.
- Content audits How a site owner runs a yearly content audit on an Exponential site - choosing the scope, exporting an inventory from the sub-items list, using the content checks and search statistics, deciding keep, update, merge…
- Designing login and user pages How theme designers design the account pages of an Exponential site - sign in, register, forgotten and changed passwords, profile, the mails that go with them, the two-factor pages where that extension is installed, and…
- Feeds for readers and networks The feeds a show or a podcast network can publish besides the podcast feed - RSS 2.0 or Atom of episode pages for news readers, an OPML list of all shows of a network - and importing a partner's feed into the site, with…
- Filing a bug as a community member How to file a bug in Exponential so it gets fixed - choosing the right tracker, searching first, the parts of a good bug description, a safe summary of the installation, and what happens after you file it.
- How packages are versioned in the ecosystem The versioning rules that hold across the Exponential ecosystem - published tags never change, the last position counts on past nine, version sorting, the tilde constraint, and version fields inside an extension - and…
- Image variations How the DXP serves images in sizes - variations defined per siteaccess scope, generated on demand by Liip Imagine, used from Twig, cleared after a change - plus the console commands for originals and storage paths.
- Options and variants Letting customers choose size, color or extras in an Exponential store - the four option datatypes, how a choice is stored with the basket item and the order, the add-to-basket form, and when separate products are the…
- Providers and models Which AI providers Exponential Intelligence can use - Anthropic, any OpenAI-compatible service through one adapter, a local open-weight model, or a class of your own - what has been proven live and what only against…
- Sitemaps and robots.txt for a local business What an XML sitemap and robots.txt do for a small business site, how Exponential produces them with bcgooglesitemaps and the shipped robots.txt, what to ask your builder for, and how to check both yourself in a browser.
- Study projects: overview The ten graded study projects for learners - what each one builds with real Exponential features (content classes, site structure, template overrides, layouts, languages, search, the REST API, extensions, roles and a…
- Talking points: the help and free documentation Talking points about the documentation built into Exponential - the help system with context help, search, audiences, print and PDF - and about its license, the GNU FDL, which lets anyone copy, translate and improve it.
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