Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Glossary for advocates Updated Markdown page
Plain-language definitions of the terms advocates meet and use - product names, organizations, technical terms like siteaccess, extension, override and draft, community and license terms - with links to the full…
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Handling hostile threads Updated Markdown page
What an advocate does when a discussion about Exponential turns hostile, mocking or bad-faith - stay calm, answer once with facts, never attack, protect people, know when to leave - with de-escalation phrases and a…
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Hands-on workshop outline Updated Markdown page
Outlines for a 90-minute and a half-day hands-on Exponential workshop - install, edit and publish, build a page with layouts, define a content class, override a template, write an extension with the RAD tools, send a…
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Helping with translations Updated Markdown page
How advocates help bring Exponential's administration and help to more languages - check a language's level, translate missing strings with Qt Linguist or an XML editor, keep placeholders, measure, review in the running…
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Honesty and accuracy Updated Markdown page
The accuracy habits that make advocates trustworthy - check before you say it, date your facts, separate fact from opinion, say what is not documented, correct openly - with a fact-checking routine and examples.
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Improving the help Updated Markdown page
How advocates improve the help pages they are reading - Edit on GitHub, a small pull request, the commit message format, the GNU FDL, front matter, link checks - with the kinds of fixes that help most and what to avoid.
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Knowing the product family Updated Markdown page
Every product of the Exponential family in one sentence an advocate can say, who it is for, and the source to cite, plus a quiz to check yourself.
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Lightning talk script Updated Markdown page
A ready five-minute lightning talk about Exponential with six slides, a word-for-word script with timings, the source behind every sentence, variants for developer and editor audiences, and a rehearsal checklist.
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Live demo safety Updated Markdown page
How to show Exponential live without exposing secrets, personal data or someone else's site - what never appears on screen, how to prepare a clean demo installation, what to do when something leaks, and a recovery table…
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Measuring advocacy honestly Updated Markdown page
How advocates see whether their work helps - observable signals such as answered questions, merged pull requests, repeated questions that disappear, new contributors - without invented metrics, tracking of people or…
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Mentoring a first contribution Updated Markdown page
How an advocate guides someone through their first contribution to Exponential - choosing a small real task, the documentation or translation path, the code path with Git, the commit message, the pull request, and…
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Naming rules quick card Updated Markdown page
A one-screen card of the names advocates use most - the product, its family, 7x, the Foundation, the old name only as history, code identifiers that never change, and spelling - condensed from the full brand and naming…
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Newcomer FAQ Updated Markdown page
The questions newcomers ask advocates most often about Exponential, each with a short, sourced answer to give and the page to link - what it is, cost, who makes it, how to try it, requirements, languages, help…
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Objection: "What about the AI features?" Updated Markdown page
How to answer both kinds of AI objection - "AI will ruin our content or leak our data" and "we need more AI" - with the documented facts about Exponential Intelligence, the controls administrators have, and what an…
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Objection: "Can we find people who know it?" Updated Markdown page
How to answer "nobody knows Exponential" or "we cannot hire for it" honestly - no invented developer counts, but the plain stack, the free learning material, the path from user to developer, training and the contributor…
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Objection: "Is it still alive?" Updated Markdown page
How to answer "Isn't Exponential dead?" or "Isn't that the discontinued product?" with checkable evidence - releases, commits, CI, the history, the organizations behind it - plus reply templates and what not to say.
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Objection: "Is open source secure?" Updated Markdown page
How to answer "open source is less secure" or "anyone can read the code and attack it" with Exponential's documented security process, the evidence a skeptic can check, and the limits an honest advocate states.
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Objection: PHP and modern technology Updated Markdown page
How to answer "PHP is old", "it needs an old PHP", "the interface looks dated" or "we need headless" with sourced facts about PHP 8 support, the current stack, admin4, Velocity, the REST API and the Symfony…
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Objection: "Why not another CMS?" Updated Markdown page
How an advocate answers "why not use a more popular CMS?" fairly - compare checkable properties, never describe the other product, ask about needs, name where Exponential is not the right fit - with questions and reply…
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One-page fact sheet Updated Markdown page
A one-page, sourced fact sheet about Exponential that advocates can print or share - what it is, who stands behind it, releases, license, where it runs, headline features, security, community and how to try it - with…