Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Building an episode class Updated Markdown page
A suggested content class for podcast or video episodes, built only from datatypes Exponential ships - title, show notes, audio or video, artwork, guests, release date, transcript, license - with the settings that make…
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CDN and external media hosting Updated Markdown page
What a content delivery network can and cannot do for a show on an Exponential site, why episode downloads are not simple static files, what Exponential does not offer for offloading media to object storage or a podcast…
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Channel fields reference Updated Markdown page
Every field of the Apple Podcasts section of an RSS export - what to enter, the element it becomes, how Exponential checks the value when the export is saved, and the category list it accepts.
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Checking your feed Updated Markdown page
How to check a podcast feed of Exponential yourself - in the browser, in the RSS list, and on the command line with curl - covering the headers, the channel, every episode's enclosure, Range requests, caching and the…
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Choosing a class for episodes Updated Markdown page
Which content class to use for podcast and video episodes - the Video class, the Audio and NG Video classes of media site installations, the File class, or a class of your own - with the fields each one has and what…
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Downloads and statistics Updated Markdown page
What an Exponential site can tell a show about its audience - the download counter of file fields, page view counts, web server logs, analytics on episode pages - what it cannot count, such as plays in podcast apps, and…
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Embedding a video or a stream Updated Markdown page
How to show a player from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or another video or streaming service on an Exponential page - the External video block of the layouts editor with click-to-load, the HTML snippet block, the NG…
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Episode mapping reference Updated Markdown page
How each element of a podcast feed item is produced from an episode - the Title, Description, Category and Enclosure mappings of an export source, which datatypes each accepts, and the elements that come from the item…
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Feeds for readers and networks Updated Markdown page
The feeds a show or a podcast network can publish besides the podcast feed - RSS 2.0 or Atom of episode pages for news readers, an OPML list of all shows of a network - and importing a partner's feed into the site, with…
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Guests and credits Updated Markdown page
How to present guests, hosts and crew of a show on an Exponential site - person items and relation fields, the Authors datatype, credits in show notes, what the feed says about authors - and how to treat guests'…
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Hiding and retiring episodes Updated Markdown page
What happens to the site and the podcast feed when an episode is hidden, removed to the trash or set to disappear at a date - the hide.php and unpublish.php cronjobs, the trash, the effect on the feed's items and guids…
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How a show maps to content Updated Markdown page
How a podcast, a radio program or a video series becomes content in Exponential - the show as a folder, seasons as subfolders, episodes as items with a media field - and how that structure decides what the podcast feed…
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Live streams and premieres Updated Markdown page
What an Exponential site can and cannot do for a live show, a radio broadcast or a video premiere - it embeds the player of a streaming service, announces the stream, switches a page's layout for the time of the event…
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The media field and the file field Updated Markdown page
The two field types that hold audio and video in Exponential - the media datatype (ezmedia) with its player types and options, and the file datatype (ezbinaryfile) with its download counter - how each is stored…
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Media in rich text Updated Markdown page
How to put an episode, a video or an audio clip inside an article's text with the online editor's Embed object, what decides how it looks, why rich text cannot hold player iframes, and which old video options to avoid.
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Members-only episodes Updated Markdown page
How to keep bonus episodes, early releases or a premium back catalog for signed-in members on an Exponential site - sections and roles, the permission check on downloads, why a members-only file cannot be in a public…
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Moving, pausing or ending a show Updated Markdown page
What to do with a podcast feed when the show takes a break, moves to a new address or a new site, ends for good, or must be withdrawn - the Moved to, The show is finished and Keep the show out fields, the Active switch…
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Multilingual shows Updated Markdown page
How to run a show in several languages on an Exponential site - translated episodes or separate shows per language, translatable media fields, one podcast feed per language with its Language field and siteaccess, and…
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Podcaster checklists Updated Markdown page
Ready-to-use checklists for a show on Exponential - launching a show, publishing each episode, checking the feed, a live event, retiring an episode and a monthly health check - each item linked to the page that explains…
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Podcaster FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers to the questions podcasters, radio producers and streamers ask most about Exponential - feeds, formats, players, live streams, scheduling, statistics, members, costs and limits - each with the page that…