Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Installation name: never confuse staging with production again Updated Markdown page
This page is for teams that run a development copy, a staging copy and a live site side by side. Their browser tabs look the same, and it is easy to change the wrong one. The installation name feature puts the name of…
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jQuery 4 in the admin, admin4 without jQuery on every page, and YUI gone Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who upgrade an installation, and for developers whose templates or extensions load JavaScript libraries. On 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-02 the administration interface moved to jQuery 4 and…
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Kickstarter: install a whole site from one file Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who install the same site more than once, or on several servers. The setup wizard asks for the database, the languages, the site package, the administrator and more. The Kickstarter takes…
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Legacy bridge: run Exponential 6 inside the Symfony platform Updated Markdown page
This page is for teams that move an Exponential 6 site to the Symfony platform, or that want Twig on the public site while editors keep the legacy admin. Reference: Legacy bridge bundle specification.
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Fixes from the Opencontent and Mugo Web forks: limits, one-line logs and safer defaults Updated Markdown page
Since 6.0.15 Exponential carries the fixes that the two active forks of its predecessor, Opencontent (Opencontent/ezpublish-legacy) and Mugo Web (mugoweb/ezpublish-legacy), made to the same kernel and that Exponential…
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Log rotation and pruning Updated Markdown page
Exponential writes its logs to var/log (or each site's var//log): error.log, warning.log, notice.log, debug.log, deprecated.log, storage.log, the cronjob logs and the logs of extensions. This page describes how they are…
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The log viewer Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to read the log files of an installation from the administration, follow one as it is written, find the lines of a failed request or the error behind a reference an error page showed, or if…
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The mail layout: every mail as HTML with a plain-text part Updated Markdown page
Since 6.0.15 every mail Exponential sends is an HTML mail with a plain-text part (multipart/alternative) in one shared layout: the site's name in a dark header, a heading, a short text, one button where there is a link…
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E-mail preferences: the user's guide Updated Markdown page
Exponential lets every person choose which e-mail they get from a site, on one page, and stop it at any time with one click. This page is for visitors, members and editors: where the page is, what each choice means, how…
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Maintenance mode Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators who need to take a site offline for a while: an upgrade, a data import, a reinstall. Maintenance mode takes the whole public site offline, shows visitors a friendly page, and brings it…
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Configuration managed by the deployment (ManagedByDeployment) Updated Markdown page
Since 6.0.15. One switch per siteaccess, off by default:
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Migrations in the kernel Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0.15 adds migrations to the kernel: changes to an installation (a table, content, a class, a role, a setting) written once in files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the…
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Recent content: moderating what was created and changed (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if visitors submit content to your site (comments, reviews, forum posts, forms that create objects), if editors need one place to see what changed lately, or if you set up roles for moderators.
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Changing your password Updated Markdown page
user/password is the page where a signed-in user changes their own password, in the administration (/admin/user/password) and on the public site (/user/password). Since 6.0.15 the page lists the password's requirements…
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MongoDB as the database Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators whose organisation runs MongoDB already, or who want a document store behind a mature content model. Exponential 6.0.14 (June 2026) can store the whole content repository in MongoDB…
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Logs, INI cache and expiry timestamps per site (multi-site hosting) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you host several sites on one Exponential installation, each with a VarDir of its own, and want the logs of each site in its own directory, the cache of a site on another file system (memory) or the…
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Links to content of another site of a multisite installation Updated Markdown page
Read this page if one installation serves several sites from one content tree (the multisite demo: Fit & Healthy on /site or /, Bold Agency on /bold, their translations) and a page of one site lists content of another…
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Notifications: the user's guide Updated Markdown page
Exponential tells you by e-mail when content you follow changes, and about the collaboration items you take part in. This page is for editors and visitors who have an account: what you can choose, how to follow and stop…
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The online editor on TinyMCE 8 (opt-in, next to TinyMCE 3) Updated Markdown page
This page is for editors who want a modern rich text editor, and for administrators who decide which editor a site uses. Exponential 6.0.15 ships TinyMCE 8.9.2 as a second engine of the eZ Online Editor. TinyMCE 3.5.12…
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Sort the order list by any column Updated Markdown page
This page is for shop administrators who work with Store > Orders, and for designers who build their own order list. Every column heading of the order list now sorts it. Before, the list could only be sorted by time or…