Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Extensions in more than one folder Updated Markdown page
This page is for developers and administrators who want to keep their own project extensions apart from the extensions they install. Until 2026 every extension had to live in extension/. That folder is also where…
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Administration navigation: the top node, tabs and content browse Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators and editors who find their way around the admin. Between 28 and 30 September 2026 the content structure tree learned to start at the top of the whole content tree, the header tabs got…
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Admin links follow permissions Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who set up roles for editors, and for template authors who show admin links. Since 2026-10-02 the admin dashboard, the top menu and the left menus show a link only to a user who can open…
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Paging, sorting and page sizes in the administration interface Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators of large installations, and for anyone who wants longer or shorter lists in the admin. Every long list in the administration interface is now paged, and its page size is a setting…
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The responsive admin design (admin3) Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who want editors to work from a phone, a tablet or a wide monitor. admin3 is the classic admin interface (the admin and admin2 designs) with a sidebar that collapses, menus that work by…
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Left sidebar width and font size Updated Markdown page
This page is for anyone who works in the admin every day. You can make the left menu as wide, and its text as large, as you need. The choice is saved with your account, so it follows you across sessions and computers…
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The admin4 design Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who choose the look of the admin, and for developers who style it. admin4 is a complete administration design in the look of the setup wizard, with a light and a dark mode. It holds every…
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The admin4l design: the admin page built from layouts Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who want to arrange the administration interface, and for developers who add admin blocks. admin4l is admin4 whose page is assembled by Exponential Layouts: the header, the left and right…
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AdminNeo: the database manager behind the Database Source Editor Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who want to know what the database tool inside the admin can do, or who run it on its own. AdminNeo is a complete database management tool written in PHP, a fork of Adminer. In…
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The audit trail: who did what, and proof that nobody changed the record Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators and security officers who need to know who did what on a site, and to prove that the record was not changed. Exponential 6.0.15 records security-relevant events in a tamper-evident log…
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Benchmark: exp:benchmark Updated Markdown page
This page is for site owners and developers who want to know how fast their installation is, which server answers it faster, and whether a change made it slower. exp:benchmark ships with Exponential 6.0.15. It needs…
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Bookmark folders Updated Markdown page
Bookmarks are no longer one flat list. A user can organise them in a tree of virtual folders of any depth, and every bookmark stays one click away: the tree is open by default, shown in the sidebar, in the browse dialog…
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Bookmarks of system pages Updated Markdown page
Since Exponential 6.0.15 a bookmark can point to a system page, a page of a module view such as setup/info, exphelp/dashboard, role/view/3, audit/console/(user)/14 or a search (content/search?SearchText=news), as well…
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Cache clears that move directories aside Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators of busy or large sites who clear caches while the site is serving. Clearing a big cache used to delete it file by file inside the request. While that ran, other requests were already…
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Content classes: move an attribute to the top or the bottom Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who edit content classes. Since 29 September 2026 each attribute in the class editor has move to the top and move to the bottom buttons next to its up and down arrows, and moving works…
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A clean installation that fits shared hosting and says Exponential Updated Markdown page
This page is for anyone installing Exponential 6.0.15, especially on shared hosting. July and August 2026 made the first run of a new installation smoother. Below is what you now get, in the order you meet it.
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The content checks: unreferenced objects, broken relations and missing files Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you tidy up a content tree (images and files nobody uses any more) or look for published pages that link to or embed something a visitor cannot reach; and if you decide who may do that.
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The content finder Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you need to find a content object when all you have is an id or a path (an object id from a log, a node id from a URL, the attribute id of an error message, the path of an image file on disk), to see…
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Content jobs: large removes, copies and moves in the background Updated Markdown page
This page is for editors and administrators who remove, copy or move big subtrees. Such an operation used to run inside one web request and could fail on the time limit, the memory limit or one enormous transaction…
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Content policy limitations of extensions Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you build an extension that narrows who may read or edit content by a rule the kernel does not know (an organisation, a region, a rights matrix), or if you check access on behalf of another user…