Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Social login and privacy Updated Markdown page
For public bodies considering "sign in with" buttons - the social login handlers of the sevenx_authentication_2fa extension (skeletons for Google, Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Meta and ID.me), what data flows to and…
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The suppression list Updated Markdown page
For administrators - how Exponential's mail suppression list blocks optional mail to hard bounces, complaints, stop-all requests and legal requests while storing only a salted hash of each address, how to add, check and…
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Third-party extensions and privacy Updated Markdown page
For public bodies - the extensions installed with Exponential that send visitor or content data to third parties when activated (analytics, CAPTCHAs, maps, social login, AI providers), that none is active by default…
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What cannot be exported Updated Markdown page
For public bodies planning how to answer access and portability requests - the limits of Exponential's exports (no single export of a person's data, accounts as content objects, form submissions per form, pseudonymized…
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Procuring Exponential in the public sector Updated Markdown page
The procurement section for public bodies that buy a content management system, services around Exponential or both - requirements, tender templates, evaluation, total cost of ownership, exit plans, training and the…
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Evaluating bids for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The index of the evaluation section - templates, panel guidance, demo scripts, a proof-of-concept plan and evidence guides that help a public body evaluate bids for a website or intranet built on Exponential, fairly and…
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Building an evaluation panel for a CMS tender Updated Markdown page
Who should sit on the panel that evaluates a website or intranet CMS, which part of the evidence each member checks, how to prepare them with the Exponential documentation, and the rules that keep the panel's work fair.
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Demo scripts for evaluation panels Updated Markdown page
A scripted demonstration that every bidder offering Exponential (or any CMS) performs in the same order, built from the documented demo scripts of the help, with the tasks to show, the evidence each task produces and…
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Evaluating a support partner for Exponential Updated Markdown page
How a public body evaluates the company that will build, host or support its Exponential site - partner levels and certifications as published, the support the partner itself can count on, the questions about staff…
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Evaluating accessibility evidence in a CMS bid Updated Markdown page
How an evaluator judges the accessibility evidence of a bid based on Exponential - what the product documentation states for WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549 and Section 508, what is not evidenced, what the bidder must add for the…
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Evaluating the health of the open source project Updated Markdown page
How a public body judges whether the Exponential open source project behind a bid is maintained and likely to last - releases and tags, changelogs, the security policy, continuous integration, documentation, community…
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Evaluating security evidence in a CMS bid Updated Markdown page
How a security specialist on an evaluation panel judges a bid based on Exponential - the documented OWASP mapping, the defaults that need changing, the disclosure and release process, what is not evidenced (ASVS…
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Evaluation checklist template for a public-sector CMS Updated Markdown page
A copy-and-adapt checklist an evaluation panel uses to examine Exponential (or any CMS) against a tender's requirements, with the evidence to look for in the repository for each line.
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A proof-of-concept plan for evaluating Exponential Updated Markdown page
A proof-of-concept plan that lets a public body test Exponential on its own machine in days, starting with a one-command SQLite installation - scope, environment, test cases with expected results, data rules, and the…
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Questions to ask during a CMS demo Updated Markdown page
Questions an evaluation panel asks a bidder during a demonstration of Exponential, grouped by topic, with the answer the documentation supports so the panel can tell a precise answer from a vague one.
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Red flags and pitfalls in CMS evaluations Updated Markdown page
The claims and bid patterns that should make an evaluation panel stop and ask for evidence when a bid is based on Exponential, and the mistakes panels make themselves - each with the documentation that shows the true…
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Reference checks for CMS bidders Updated Markdown page
How to ask a bidder for references, how to run a reference call that produces facts instead of praise, the questions to ask about an Exponential project, and how to handle the personal data of reference contacts.
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Scoring sheet template for CMS bids Updated Markdown page
A scoring sheet template for comparing content management bids, with a score scale, evidence rules, a consensus step and a worked layout; every weight and score is a blank for your panel to fill.
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Weighting the evaluation criteria Updated Markdown page
How a public body decides the weights of its CMS evaluation criteria - quality versus price, mandatory versus scored requirements, and which criteria matter more for public websites - with a worksheet to record the…
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Exit plans for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The index of the exit plans section - why and how a public body plans to leave a supplier or a system, the export formats Exponential provides, backups it should hold itself, documentation, keys, personal data…