Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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News articles Updated Markdown page
How to set up news on a public-sector Exponential site - the shipped Article class and its fields, a news folder organized by year, lists of the latest news with a fetch, publication dates, images with alternative text…
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Newsletters Updated Markdown page
How a public body sends a periodic news digest with the cjw_newsletter extension in Exponential - lists, editions built from news articles, double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, rehearsal with the file transport - and…
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Notifications and subscriptions Updated Markdown page
How people with an account follow news, notices or any folder on an Exponential site and get e-mail when something is published - Notify me, My notification settings, digests, the notification cronjob, publishing…
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Press releases Updated Markdown page
How a press office publishes press releases on an Exponential site - a Press release class, approval and its exceptions, an embargo with a Wait until date workflow event, press contacts as roles, a media feed, and…
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RSS feeds Updated Markdown page
How a public-sector site publishes news and notices as RSS feeds with Exponential's RSS exports in Setup > RSS - sources, formats, items, the feed address, caching - and when to read other bodies' feeds with RSS imports.
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The urgent notices pattern Updated Markdown page
How to show urgent notices on every page or the front page of an Exponential site without a built-in alert feature - a notices folder the template lists when it is not empty, a short notice class with an end time hidden…
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Newsletters Updated Markdown page
The newsletters part of building a public site with Exponential: the cjw_newsletter extension for newsletters and alert lists, double opt-in and consent, rehearsal with the file transport, list hygiene, one-click…
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Alert lists for public notices Updated Markdown page
How to set up cjw_newsletter lists for public alerts (consultations, road works, planning notices, service changes): the structure, one list per topic or area, a short alert edition, translation, and how fast alerts go…
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Bounces, blacklist and list hygiene Updated Markdown page
How to keep a public body's newsletter lists clean with cjw_newsletter: the bounce mailbox and its cron part, the bounce threshold, the blacklist that wins over every list, subscriber exports, and retention of…
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Double opt-in and consent Updated Markdown page
How subscriptions become valid in cjw_newsletter (double opt-in and statuses), what the subscribe form must say, how consent is recorded by the kernel's e-mail preferences, importing existing lists only with consent…
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Newsletters for public bodies Updated Markdown page
What the cjw_newsletter extension gives a public body for e-mail newsletters and alerts (lists, double opt-in, editions as content, approval, languages, bounces, statistics only with consent, SMS), what it needs to run…
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Notifications instead of a newsletter Updated Markdown page
When the kernel's notifications serve better than a newsletter: signed-in users follow a page or section and get an e-mail, at once or as a digest, when content changes; how it works, the cronjob, and its limits for…
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One-click unsubscribe and the mail gate Updated Markdown page
How every optional e-mail an Exponential site sends gets an unsubscribe link and the List-Unsubscribe headers (RFC 8058) from the kernel's mail gate, what the site must add (sender postal address, categories, DKIM), and…
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Rehearsing with the file transport Updated Markdown page
How to rehearse the whole newsletter cycle (subscribe, confirm, send, unsubscribe) without sending a single real mail, using cjw_newsletter's file transport, and how to switch to real sending step by step.
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Search Updated Markdown page
The search part of building a public site with Exponential: the built-in engine, searchable fields, the search box and results page, searching inside documents, Solr with ezfind, elevation and synonyms, and search…
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Built-in search for public sites Updated Markdown page
What the search engine that ships with Exponential does for a public site (database index, permissions respected, searchable fields, advanced search), its settings, and when it is enough for a public body.
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Elevation and synonyms Updated Markdown page
How a public body puts the right page first for common searches and makes different words find the same content: ezfind's elevation module (Solr only), Solr synonyms, eztags synonyms, and what the built-in engine offers…
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Search box and results page Updated Markdown page
How to build an accessible search box and results page for a public site with Exponential: the form that sends SearchText to content/search, limiting to a part of the site with SubTreeArray, the results template, empty…
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Search statistics and privacy Updated Markdown page
How to use Setup > Search statistics to learn what the public looks for and does not find, how to switch recording on per siteaccess, and how to handle the personal data search phrases can contain.
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Searchable fields and indexing Updated Markdown page
Which fields of public sector content classes to mark Searchable, how indexing on publish and delayed indexing work, how to rebuild the index, and the pitfalls (internal codes, hidden content, large imports).