Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Planning a personal site Updated Markdown page
How to plan a personal site before installing anything - its purpose, its readers, a page list, what you will and will not publish about yourself, the content classes you need and a realistic maintenance rhythm, with a…
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Writing for your own site Updated Markdown page
Practical writing advice for one person publishing on Exponential - titles, intros and bodies that work on screens and in feeds, links, images and alternative text, page addresses, updating old pages, and using drafts…
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Portfolios Updated Markdown page
The section for photographers, illustrators, designers and other makers who show their work on Exponential - galleries, uploading many images at once, editing images in the browser with ezie, image variations, and the…
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Building an image gallery Updated Markdown page
Step by step, how one person builds a portfolio gallery with the shipped Gallery and Image classes - the tree, the cover image, captions and alternative text, sort order, tags and ratings, and what to check before…
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Editing images with ezie Updated Markdown page
How one person uses the ezie image editor inside the Exponential edit form to crop, flip, rotate, pixelate, adjust contrast and brightness, convert to black and white or sepia, and add a watermark - what it is good for…
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Image variations for portfolios Updated Markdown page
What image variations (aliases) are, which ones ship in settings/image.ini, how a portfolio uses them for thumbnails, gallery views and large views, how to add a larger alias for your work, quality and formats, and what…
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Uploading many images Updated Markdown page
How to bring dozens or hundreds of images into a portfolio at once with the multi-upload page of ezmultiupload - which classes offer it, which file types a gallery accepts, the ZIP import, preparing files first, and the…
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Running it alone Updated Markdown page
The small routines that keep an Exponential site healthy when one person runs it - backups, updates, two-step sign-in, spam and security basics, the optional writing assistant, knowing when to hire help, and learning…
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Backups for one person Updated Markdown page
A backup routine one person can keep for an Exponential site - what to copy (database and files together), backups from the administration with git_manager, the command-line way for SQLite and other databases, keeping…
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Learning with the Student level Updated Markdown page
For individuals who want to learn Exponential properly - students, teachers and self-taught learners - what the Student level of the partner program is as published, what you can learn with your own site and the free…
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Spam and security basics Updated Markdown page
The security and anti-spam basics one person can keep up on an Exponential site - the administrator account, passwords and two-step sign-in, form tokens and CAPTCHA for forms, comments and registration, what anonymous…
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Two-factor sign-in Updated Markdown page
How one person protects the administrator account and the accounts of relatives or club volunteers with two-step sign-in from sevenx_authentication_2fa - authenticator app or code by mail, setting it up, making it…
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Updates for one person Updated Markdown page
How one person keeps an Exponential site current - what an update covers, where releases are announced, security fixes first, the update steps with a backup and maintenance mode, the update tools in the administration…
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When to hire help Updated Markdown page
How one person decides which parts of running an Exponential site to do alone and which to pay for - tasks that suit a partner or freelancer, the warning signs, how to describe a small job, what to ask, keeping…
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The writing assistant Updated Markdown page
What Exponential Intelligence (expai) can do for one person writing a blog, a portfolio or a club site - drafts only, never publishing; what it needs (a provider key or a local model, set up in the settings); where your…
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Setup for individuals Updated Markdown page
The setup decisions one person makes for a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site on Exponential, in order - install method, site package and theme, a small budget, shared hosting or a small server…
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Choosing a site package and theme Updated Markdown page
Which site package and theme an individual should start from on Exponential - the default sevenx_multisite and its clean variant, the simpler sevenx_site, the older ezwebin, ezflow and ezdemo packages, the themes behind…
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Choosing an install method for one person Updated Markdown page
Which of Exponential's three install methods suits an individual - the setup wizard for shared hosting without a shell, exp:install for a quick start on your own computer or a small server, the kickstarter for…
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Domain names and HTTPS Updated Markdown page
What an individual arranges outside Exponential to give a site its own address and the lock in the browser - buying a domain from a registrar, pointing DNS at the server, telling Exponential its address, getting a…
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Running on a small budget Updated Markdown page
How one person keeps the cost and the moving parts of an Exponential site low - no license fee, SQLite instead of a database server, one small machine, Velocity or a common web server, caching, few extensions, and a…