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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Lesson 5.3: Field types, image aliases and Twig templates Updated Markdown page
Developers compare the field types of a 5.x site with Exponential's datatypes, decide what to do with RichText, turn YAML image variations into image.ini aliases, and rewrite Twig templates and view rules as TPL…
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Lesson 5.1: Which 5.x variant, and what carries over Updated Markdown page
Learners identify which of the three 5.x-era variants an old site runs (the dual-kernel stack, the 5.90 legacy-only line, or the legacy kernel run without Symfony), explain why the database carries over without…
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Module 6: From the Symfony-based platforms Updated Markdown page
The module on sites that run eZ Platform or Ibexa - the source generations and the two destinations, path A to Exponential Platform Nexus of the same generation, and path B down to the Exponential 6 legacy kernel or…
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Lesson 6.2: Path A: to Exponential Platform Nexus Updated Markdown page
Developers plan a same-generation move from eZ Platform or Ibexa to Exponential Platform Nexus - bring the source to the last release of its line, swap the packages, rename console commands, rebuild landing pages with…
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Lesson 6.3: Path B: down to the Exponential 6 legacy kernel Updated Markdown page
Learners plan the move of an eZ Platform or Ibexa database down to the Exponential 6 legacy kernel - what the two share and what is lost and gained, field types without a datatype, the six database steps with ezsqldiff…
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Lesson 6.1: From eZ Platform or Ibexa: two destinations and how to choose Updated Markdown page
Learners identify the generation of an eZ Platform or Ibexa source, explain the two destinations (path A to Exponential Platform Nexus and the Platform distributions, path B down to the Exponential 6 legacy kernel or…
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Module 7: From other systems Updated Markdown page
The module on sites from other systems - WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and static HTML - applying the planning, mapping and tool methods of the course to real sources. Three lessons, 2 hours 45 minutes.
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Lesson 7.2: From Drupal and Joomla Updated Markdown page
Learners plan migrations from Drupal (JSON:API, nodes, Paragraphs, taxonomy, path aliases and /node/ links) and from Joomla (the Web Services API or the database, introtext and fulltext, categories, menu-driven SEF…
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Lesson 7.3: From a static HTML site Updated Markdown page
Learners migrate a small static HTML site - read the files or crawl, group pages by template, extract and clean the content area into the simplified input, import images and documents, build the tree from the…
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Lesson 7.1: From WordPress Updated Markdown page
Learners plan a WordPress migration end to end - what WordPress exports (WXR, WP-CLI, the REST API, the uploads directory), the mapping of posts, pages, media, taxonomies, shortcodes and SEO fields, the nine steps of…
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Module 8: Leaving Exponential, and the capstone Updated Markdown page
The closing module of the migration course - the complete export of an Exponential site for another system, and a capstone in which teams write, prove and present a complete migration plan scored with a rubric. Two…
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Lesson 8.2: Capstone: a complete migration plan Updated Markdown page
Teams write and present a complete migration plan for a given scenario - path, inventory, scope, mapping, tools, URLs, rehearsals, cut-over and rollback - and prove one part of it on their training installation; the…
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Lesson 8.1: Migrating away from Exponential Updated Markdown page
Learners make a complete, self-describing export of an Exponential site - the xrowextract site archive, the storage, a database dump, layouts, form data - turn rich text into HTML, build the redirect table from the URL…
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Multisite and site packages: course overview Updated Markdown page
The course for administrators and developers who run several sites on one installation and build sites from packages, 6 modules and 26 lessons, about 22 hours of lessons, from siteaccesses and request matching to…
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Module 1: Siteaccesses for several sites Updated Markdown page
The first module of Multisite and site packages. Learners understand siteaccesses and the load order of settings, plan a multisite, add a second site to their training installation and give it a language siteaccess. 3…
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Lesson 1.4: A siteaccess per language Updated Markdown page
Learners give the second site a German siteaccess, set its languages and fallback order, and check the result on the Content languages page. 50 minutes.
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Lesson 1.3: Adding a second site step by step Updated Markdown page
Learners add a second public site to their training installation, with its own root folder, siteaccess, start page and name, register it and reach it by its URL path. 60 minutes.
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Lesson 1.2: Planning several sites on one installation Updated Markdown page
Learners choose between the shapes of a multisite (separate content, shared content, languages, site extensions) and decide when separate installations are the better answer. 40 minutes, mostly discussion and a planning…
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Lesson 1.1: What a siteaccess is Updated Markdown page
Learners explain what a siteaccess is, find the siteaccesses of an installation in its settings files, and say which file wins when several set the same value. 45 minutes.
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Module 2: Matching requests to siteaccesses Updated Markdown page
The second module of Multisite and site packages. Learners match requests to siteaccesses by URL path, host name, host and path together and port, and send visitors of the bare address to their language. 3 hours 45…