Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Club newsletters Updated Markdown page
How a volunteer sends a club newsletter with the cjw_newsletter extension that ships with Exponential - lists, double opt-in subscriptions, writing an edition, test sends, sending by cron, bounces and unsubscribes, what…
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Events and calendars for clubs Updated Markdown page
How a volunteer publishes meetings, matches, concerts and outings on an Exponential club site with the shipped Event, Event calendar and Multicalendar classes - calendar or program view, public and members-only events…
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Forms, polls and sign-ups Updated Markdown page
How a volunteer collects sign-ups, answers and votes on an Exponential club or family site with the information collector - the shipped Feedback form and Poll classes, form types in collect.ini, one vote per user for…
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Members and registration Updated Markdown page
How a volunteer lets club members sign up and sign in on Exponential - the registration pages, activation by mail, the Members group and Member role of the default package, approving new members, a members' area, what…
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Planning a club site Updated Markdown page
How a volunteer plans a club or hobby group site on Exponential with the committee - purpose, public and members-only parts, who does what, the tree and classes, mail and cron needs, money questions, and a plan that…
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Sharing the work with volunteers Updated Markdown page
How the one volunteer who runs a club site on Exponential stops being the only one - roles for editors and a deputy administrator, approval before publishing, a small handbook, two-step sign-in, and a handover that…
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Family sites Updated Markdown page
The section for people who run a private site for their family on Exponential - photos, news, recipes and family history behind a sign-in - with planning, private areas through sections and roles, inviting relatives…
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Birthdays and family dates Updated Markdown page
What Exponential offers for recording birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings - the birthday extension's ezbirthday datatype, which stores a date of birth and nothing more, the Event and Event calendar classes…
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Inviting family members Updated Markdown page
How one person gives relatives access to a private family site on Exponential - creating accounts yourself or letting relatives register, placing them in the right group, first sign-in and password reset, help for less…
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Planning a family site Updated Markdown page
How to plan a private family site on Exponential before building it - fully private or partly public, who gets an account, who may post, what never goes online, the tree, the classes, and the agreements to make with…
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Privacy for your family Updated Markdown page
The privacy decisions behind a family site on Exponential - what never goes online, children and consent, photos and their metadata, how private a private area really is, search engines, backups that contain family…
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Private areas with roles and sections Updated Markdown page
How one person makes a family or member area private on Exponential - how sections and the Anonymous role decide what visitors see, the Restricted section and the Members and Partners groups the default package creates…
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Individuals FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short, honest answers to the questions people ask before and while running a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential alone - cost, hosting, comments, importing, privacy, mail, backups…
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Individuals glossary Updated Markdown page
The words you meet when you run a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential, each explained in one or two plain sentences with a link to the page that explains it in full.
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Individuals reading path Updated Markdown page
The pages an individual reads, in order, from deciding whether Exponential fits to running a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site alone for years - with the time each step takes and what you have at…
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Individuals: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for people who run a website of their own on Exponential - a personal site, a portfolio, a blog, a family site or a club site - on a small budget, mostly alone: what Exponential gives you, what it does…
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Is Exponential right for you? Updated Markdown page
Honest questions that help one person decide whether to run a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential - where it is a good fit, where a simpler tool or a hosted service is better, and…
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Personal sites Updated Markdown page
The section for people who want a personal home page on Exponential - who you are, what you do, what you have written or made and how to reach you - with planning, a weekend build, an about page and contact form, and…
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A personal site in a weekend Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step weekend plan for one person to build a small personal site on Exponential - install on your own computer with SQLite, create the pages, add images and a contact form, adjust the look, and prepare the move…
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About page and contact form Updated Markdown page
How one person writes an About page that works and sets up a contact form with the shipped Feedback form class - where messages are stored and mailed, how to keep your mail address private, how to stop spam and what to…