- Designing for several brands in multisite How theme designers plan one design system for several brands served from one Exponential installation - what varies per brand and what stays shared, a brand matrix, brand tokens, logos, and how the design maps to a…
- Fetching content in templates For CMS developers, the fetch functions that replace hand-written queries. It covers single nodes and objects, children and subtrees, class and attribute filters, sorting, paging with the offset view parameter, counts…
- Live streams and premieres What an Exponential site can and cannot do for a live show, a radio broadcast or a video premiere - it embeds the player of a streaming service, announces the stream, switches a page's layout for the time of the event…
- Local models Running an open-weight model on your own server with Exponential Intelligence so that no content leaves it - what the extension provides (a pinned Ollama on the loopback address, systemd limits, a root-owned helper with…
- Project 1: a content class of your own Study project 1 - design and create a content class of your own (a club event) with the class editor, choose datatypes, set required fields and an object name pattern, create and publish objects of it, and hand in a…
- Securing the database The security measures that concern the database of an Exponential site - where the credentials are kept and how to protect them, how the administration and the console mask secrets, passwords on command lines, network…
- Structured data: what exists What schema.org structured data (JSON-LD) Exponential and its shipped themes print today - breadcrumbs, articles, recipes, the content license - and what a local business would have to add for a LocalBusiness block with…
- The CLA explained for community members What the Exponential Foundation and 7x Contributor Licensing Agreement (version 1.1.0) means for a community member - a copyright assignment for code contributed to the Exponential kernel - who needs it, how to sign…
- Themes and designs in the ecosystem Themes and designs as part of the Exponential ecosystem - the bundled site themes, admin designs, design extensions and theme packages from others - and where designers find the rules for building, distributing and…
- The REST API The REST API v2 of the DXP (ibexa/rest) for developers - where it lives and how to check the prefix, what it covers, how clients authenticate (session, JWT, basic), CORS, and how to try it with curl.
- Translation routine How a site owner keeps a multilingual Exponential site in step week by week - who translates and approves, translators limited to their language, per-language approval, finding translations that are missing or out of…
- Writing the adoption decision A one-page decision record for adopting Exponential - what is adopted, why, the evidence, the owner, the provider, the budget, the accepted risks and the conditions to revisit - with a template to copy.
- Adding a document for download Put a PDF, a spreadsheet or another file on an Exponential site so visitors can download it - upload it as a File item, give it a clear title, link to it from a page - and how to replace it with a newer version without…
- Business listings outside Exponential Your profile on map and search platforms, review sites and directories is created and kept up to date on those platforms, not in Exponential - what to put there, how to keep it in step with the website, who should own…
- Content from PHP For CMS developers who read and write content in PHP scripts, importers and integrations with the real kernel API. It covers running a script with the kernel loaded, fetching nodes and lists, reading attributes…
- Designing layout blocks How theme designers design for Exponential Layouts, where editors build pages from blocks - designing block types and view types instead of pages, any order and any zone width, containers, shared header and footer…
- Finding an extension in the ecosystem Where to look for an Exponential extension - what is already installed, the se7enxweb repositories, Packagist, Projects and the forums - and how to judge an extension before you depend on it.
- JWT authentication Token authentication for the DXP's REST and GraphQL APIs with lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle - generating and rotating the keypair, the environment variables, the firewalls the recipe writes commented out, getting a…
- Media in rich text How to put an episode, a video or an audio clip inside an article's text with the online editor's Embed object, what decides how it looks, why rich text cannot hold player iframes, and which old video options to avoid.
- Project 2: a small site structure Study project 2 - plan and build the content tree of a small site (a student club) with folders, articles and images, order the sub items, add a second location, hide and restore content, work with drafts and versions…
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