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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Story: Exponential Layouts, the page builder Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential Layouts, the visual page builder that brings the concept of the upstream layouts packages to the Exponential kernel - layouts, zones, blocks, rules and shared layouts - with printable…
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Story: Exponential Platform DXP Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential Platform DXP, the free, open source Symfony digital experience platform maintained by 7x as the community continuation of the eZ Platform and Ibexa OSS line - what it ships, what it…
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Story: the extension ecosystem Updated Markdown page
A feature story about the packages around the Exponential kernel - 66 se7enxweb packages required by the kernel, 219 on Packagist, each with its own repository, releases and changelog, extensions from other companies…
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Story: free documentation Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential's documentation as free documentation under the GNU FDL 1.3 - what readers may do with it, what it covers, the inherited pages with older terms, the free training books and the…
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Story: funding and sponsors Updated Markdown page
A feature story about who pays for Exponential - 7x's contributions and services, the Exponential Foundation founded in 2026, two GitHub Sponsors pages with two missions, what sponsorship is said to fund, and the facts…
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Story: Git first Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential's "Git first" approach - installing the kernel and extensions as Git clones with full history, updating with Git, a repository history back to 2002, and a month-by-month account of…
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Story: hosting freedom Updated Markdown page
A feature story about where Exponential can run - any web server that rewrites URLs or its own Velocity, six databases, almost any operating system with PHP 8.0, shared hosting with limits, and no tie to one provider…
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Story: how the Velocity figures are measured Updated Markdown page
The speed figures published for Exponential Velocity (0.36 ms per cached page, 8,941 requests per second) with the conditions they were measured under, the before-and-after table they come from, how to reproduce them…
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Story: install in one command Updated Markdown page
A feature story about installing Exponential with one console command on SQLite, without a database server or a configuration file - what the command does, the database choices, the Kickstarter and the package manager…
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Story: jQuery 4 and the end of YUI Updated Markdown page
A feature story about how Exponential's administration moved to jQuery 4 and replaced the discontinued YUI library with its own Exponential UI components in October 2026 - what changed, why it matters for security and…
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Story: languages and right to left Updated Markdown page
A feature story about languages in Exponential - 368 locale files, 43 of them right to left, administration translations, all of them complete, an administration that turns around for Hebrew and Arabic - with printable…
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Story: a code base kept alive Updated Markdown page
A feature story about the longevity of Exponential's code base - developed since 1999, discontinued under its former name, continued by 7x since December 2023, with fifteen releases and current PHP support since - told…
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Story: operations tools for administrators Updated Markdown page
A feature story about the tools Exponential gives the people who run sites - maintenance mode, the log viewer, request logs, content checks, the file consistency check, cronjob controls, the debug bar and the INI…
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Story: MongoDB as a database Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential 6.0.14 storing its whole content repository in MongoDB - what works, the documented limits, how it fits the six supported databases - with printable facts, sources and the claims to…
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Story: multisite Updated Markdown page
A feature story about running several websites from one Exponential installation - siteaccesses, per-site settings in extensions, host and language matching, links between sites - with printable facts, sources, the…
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Story: Exponential Platform Nexus and Legacy Updated Markdown page
A feature story about the two dual-kernel distributions of the Exponential family - Legacy, the Symfony platform with Exponential 6 included, and Nexus, which adds Exponential Layouts, Media Site and demo content - who…
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Story: the online editor, TinyMCE 8 Updated Markdown page
A feature story about the rich text editor of Exponential - TinyMCE 8.9.2 as an opt-in second engine next to TinyMCE 3, identical stored XML, link checks and upload safety - with printable facts, sources and headline…
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Story: open source and licenses Updated Markdown page
A feature story about why licensing made Exponential's survival possible - the GNU GPL that let a new steward continue the code after its creator stopped, contributions under the same license, the end of the paid…
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Story: operating systems Updated Markdown page
A feature story about where Exponential runs - the four documented tiers from "tested here" to "not possible today", Linux distributions, BSD, macOS, Windows, containers and processor architectures - with the honesty of…
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Story: the REST API Updated Markdown page
A feature story about Exponential's REST content API - one extension serving versions 1 and 2, reads at both versions and writes at v2, permission checks on every call, OAuth2 tokens and personal API keys - for coverage…