Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Accessibility, security and compliance checklists Updated Markdown page
Checklists for accessibility, the Content Security Policy, hardening and go-live, accounts, the audit trail and vulnerability reporting, with data protection as questions. Not legal advice.
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Becoming a leader in the Exponential community Updated Markdown page
A 30/60/90-day plan that uses only this help and the project's documented channels, a contribution ladder from user to reviewer, and what each step looks like for project managers, sales, editors, administrators and…
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Choosing hosting, database and operating system Updated Markdown page
Decision tables for where an Exponential site runs: the six supported databases in order, operating system tiers, Velocity, FrankenPHP, Apache or nginx, install methods and a decision record.
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Running content modeling workshops Updated Markdown page
How to run workshops that turn your content into content classes, attributes, a content tree, sections, states, languages and roles; agendas, exercises and a class sheet to copy.
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Estimating and scoping with extensions Updated Markdown page
Scope an Exponential project by checking what the kernel and its extensions already do: an inventory by area, effort drivers as questions and a scoping worksheet. No hours or prices.
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Measuring a project: KPIs from the product's own logs and audit trail Updated Markdown page
Key figures Exponential produces itself (audit trail, request logs, error digest, log health, cronjobs, content checks, upgrade check, benchmarks, CI), where each is shown and how to collect it.
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The leadership reading path Updated Markdown page
Every leadership and business page of the help in one ordered path, plus the key existing pages, arranged per role (project manager, sales and marketing) and per week, with a check question for each step.
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Planning multisite and multilingual projects Updated Markdown page
Plan several sites and languages in one installation: siteaccesses, languages per site, translations, right to left, the 62-language limit, cross-site links and a planning sheet.
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Planning an Exponential project Updated Markdown page
The phases of an Exponential project from discovery to operation, project roles mapped to the real roles and policies, and a requirements table linking each need to the feature that answers it.
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Project managers: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for project managers: what the leadership pages of this help offer, a plan for your first week with Exponential, and links to every leadership page and the help pages you will use most.
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Project templates: charter, RACI, checklists, launch and handover Updated Markdown page
Copyable fill-in templates for an Exponential project: project charter, RACI matrix, requirements checklist, launch checklist and handover document, each tied to the real features and pages of the product.
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Quality gates and acceptance Updated Markdown page
The checks Exponential already runs on every change (CI workflows, test suites, design and accessibility tests, CSP reports) and how to build your project's own quality gates and acceptance on top of them.
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Release and upgrade planning Updated Markdown page
How Exponential versions are numbered and published, what the project commits to, and how to plan, schedule and verify an upgrade of a site from any 6.0.x (or older) to the current line.
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Risk management for Exponential projects Updated Markdown page
A risk register for Exponential projects: the usual risks of building and running a site, each with likelihood, impact and a mitigation that points to a real feature, page or command of the product.
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Running a team on Git Updated Markdown page
How a project team works on an Exponential site with Git: repositories, branches, pull requests and reviews, commit messages, settings in version control, deployments, and why a published tag is permanent.
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What Exponential is: the product family Updated Markdown page
Exponential and its product family in plain words: the CMS, CMF and shop kernel, the Platform distributions, Velocity, Intelligence, Layouts, extensions, licenses and the support commitment, all sourced.
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Working together: project managers, sales, editors, administrators and developers Updated Markdown page
How the five roles around an Exponential site hand work to each other: a handoff table, meeting cadences, the shared artefacts, and which part of the administration each role owns, with the policies behind it.
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Working with the community and contributing back Updated Markdown page
Where the Exponential community meets, which tracker takes which report, how a fix or a page of documentation goes back upstream, and how a project team can plan and budget for contributing.
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A fast, free brochure site for your business Updated Markdown page
Opening hours, services, prices and contact details on a fast public site with no hosting fee - edited in Exponential, published as a static copy to GitHub Pages, and when not to do it (shops, bookings).
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Budget: what a local business website costs Updated Markdown page
The budget pages for a small business website on Exponential - the cost picture without invented prices, a worked example where every number is labeled an example assumption, a worksheet for your own numbers, and the…