Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Minority and regional languages Updated Markdown page
How a public body offers content in minority, regional or indigenous languages with Exponential: which locales ship, what to do when one is missing, partial translation with fallbacks, interface texts that stay in…
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Multilingual search Updated Markdown page
How search behaves on a multilingual Exponential site: the built-in engine indexes every translation of an object together and filters results by the siteaccess's languages, while Solr through ezfind offers per-language…
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Plain language Updated Markdown page
Why public bodies write in plain language, the official US guidance at plainlanguage.gov, and how to build plain language into an Exponential site: content classes with short summaries, field descriptions, review in the…
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Redirecting to the visitor's language Updated Markdown page
How the start page of a multilingual public site can send each visitor to their language once, by host and browser language, with DefaultHostUriMatchMapItems, without cookies, and how to keep the choice under the…
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Removing a translation safely Updated Markdown page
The difference between removing a language and removing an item's translation in Exponential, why removing a translation deletes content in every version, the safe order of steps to move content into the right language…
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Right-to-left in the administration Updated Markdown page
What staff who work in Hebrew, Arabic or another right-to-left interface language get in the Exponential administration since 6.0.15: a mirrored layout, isolated names, right-to-left editing, and the known follow-ups.
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Right-to-left languages on public sites Updated Markdown page
How a public body publishes in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu or another right-to-left language with Exponential: where the direction comes from, what the public design must add (dir on the page, logical CSS)…
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Second and third official languages Updated Markdown page
A setup guide for public bodies with two or three official languages: one siteaccess and address per language with equal standing, fallback policy, translator roles and approval, a switcher, interface languages for…
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Testing a multilingual site Updated Markdown page
How to test a multilingual Exponential site before launch and after changes: the test language Lorem Ipsum (qlo-ZZ) with exp:loremipsum, checks per language address, fallbacks, switcher, search, forms and mails…
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The 62 language limit Updated Markdown page
An Exponential installation holds at most 62 content languages on 64-bit PHP (30 on 32-bit PHP). Why, what counts and what does not, how to free a place, and what it means for public bodies with many languages or many…
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The language switcher Updated Markdown page
How to put a language switcher on every page of a multilingual public site with Exponential (TranslationSA, the language_switcher operator, switchlanguage/to), make it accessible, and add hreflang links, which the…
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Translating an item step by step Updated Markdown page
For translators and editors: how to add a translation to a page in Exponential, starting from an existing language, how to update a translation later, how to check it on the public site, and what to watch in fields that…
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Translation workflow and approval Updated Markdown page
How a public body organizes translation in Exponential: a backlog, translators per language, approval of translations with the Approve event limited to affected languages, publishing each language on its own, and what…
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Translator roles and permissions Updated Markdown page
How to give translators in a public body exactly the rights they need in Exponential: a role with content/read, content/edit and content/translate limited by Language (and section), why content/create matters, and how…
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Writing for readability Updated Markdown page
Practical readability rules for editors of public sites built with Exponential, field by field (titles, summaries, body text, links, tables, documents), with how the editor and the templates support each rule and how to…
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Levels of government Updated Markdown page
An index of the ten kinds of public-sector organization this section covers, from national government to emergency services, with the same seven questions answered for each.
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Agencies Updated Markdown page
Index for regulators, inspectorates and executive agencies planning an Exponential site - what they publish, content model, structure and roles, requirements, a 90-day plan, and guidance for regulated parties.
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Content model for agencies Updated Markdown page
Shipped Exponential classes that fit an agency site and recipes for Guidance, Enforcement notice and Program classes, with effective dates, change notes and a status kept as an object state.
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The first 90 days for agencies Updated Markdown page
A 90-day plan for a regulator, inspectorate or executive agency starting with Exponential - guidance inventory and owners, legal review workflow, status states, migration and launch - with checks.
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Guidance for regulated parties Updated Markdown page
How an agency publishes guidance that regulated parties can rely on in Exponential - one stable address, effective dates, change notes, status as an object state, legal review, notifications and RSS for changes, and…