Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Podcaster glossary Updated Markdown page
The terms of podcasting and streaming and the Exponential terms behind them - from enclosure, guid and RSS export to media datatype, siteaccess, object state and workflow - each explained briefly with the page that goes…
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Podcasters reading path Updated Markdown page
The order in which to read the podcaster pages - a first hour for everyone, then paths for the producer launching a show, the editor publishing episodes, the administrator setting up the site, the radio or live producer…
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Podcasters, radio and streaming: start here Updated Markdown page
Where podcasters, radio producers and streamers start. What an Exponential site does for a show - media hosting, HTML5 players, an Apple Podcasts feed, embedded streams, scheduling, approval, rights and access - what it…
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Privacy and third-party players Updated Markdown page
How embedding players from video and streaming services affects listeners' privacy on an Exponential site - click-to-load in the External video block and the NG Video view, the privacy-friendlier YouTube and Vimeo…
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Production stages with object states Updated Markdown page
How a show tracks episodes through production stages such as recorded, edited, notes written and ready with Exponential's object states - a state group of your own, policies that depend on the stage, keeping unfinished…
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Publishing an episode Updated Markdown page
The whole path of one episode from draft to podcast apps - create it in the right folder, fill in title, audio and show notes, preview, publish now or at a date, and check the page and the feed - with what happens…
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Rights and licensing of what you publish Updated Markdown page
How to handle the rights in episodes you publish on an Exponential site - your own license, music and clips, guest releases, artwork and photos, embedded third-party players - which fields Exponential has for it and…
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Scheduling a release Updated Markdown page
How to release an episode at a set date and time with Exponential's Wait until date workflow event - what the administrator sets up once, what the producer does per episode, when the episode really appears on the site…
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Setting up the show structure Updated Markdown page
Step by step - create the folders for a show, its seasons and its guests in the content tree, describe the show on its folder, decide where the audio files live, and check that the structure matches the feed you will…
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Show notes template Updated Markdown page
Copyable show notes templates for an interview episode, a solo or news episode and a live or video episode, with a short feed description template and a list of what to fill in before publishing.
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Storage and bandwidth Updated Markdown page
What hosting a podcast or video show on an Exponential site costs in disk space and data transfer - where media files are stored, how old versions keep files, how every download passes through PHP with range support…
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Submitting to podcast directories Updated Markdown page
What Exponential provides when a show is submitted to Apple Podcasts and other directories - a stable feed address with the elements Apple requires - what happens outside Exponential, and the checks to make before and…
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Tags and topics Updated Markdown page
How to organize episodes by topic on an Exponential site - the Keywords datatype of the kernel, eztags on installations with that extension, topic pages and lists, and how a keyword field can fill the category of each…
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The podcast feed explained Updated Markdown page
What the Apple Podcasts export of Exponential writes, element by element - the channel from the export's podcast fields, one item per episode with its enclosure, guid, date and duration - and the rules that decide which…
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Transcripts and captions Updated Markdown page
How to publish transcripts of audio episodes and captions for video with Exponential - the transcript as text on the episode page or as a file, the missing caption track in the media template and three ways around it…
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Troubleshooting feeds and media Updated Markdown page
Symptoms, causes and fixes for the problems shows meet most often on an Exponential site - empty podcast feeds, wrong enclosure types, missing durations, feeds pointing at the wrong host, changes that do not show, audio…
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Upload limits and large files Updated Markdown page
Which limits decide how large an episode file can be on an Exponential site - PHP's upload_max_filesize and post_max_size, the media or file field's maximum size, the upload page's MaxFileSize - the messages each one…
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Uploading audio Updated Markdown page
How to put an episode's audio on the site - prepare the file, upload it in the episode's edit form or on the upload page, choose the player options, and check the file type and size that the podcast feed will announce.
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Uploading video Updated Markdown page
How to put a video episode on the site - when to upload the file and when to host it on a video service, the Video class and its Html5 Video player, MP4 and WebM, sizes and the checks after publishing.
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What Exponential does for a show Updated Markdown page
A map of what an Exponential site can do for a podcast, a radio program or a video channel - media hosting, players, an Apple Podcasts feed, embeds of streams, scheduling, rights and access - with where each part lives…