Recent changes
Sunday November 08 2026
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Installing and running Exponential 6.0: the book Updated
This book takes you from an empty server to a production Exponential 6.0 site. It covers checking the requirements, getting the code, choosing and running an installer, serving the site, choosing a database, and keeping…
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4. Choosing an install method New
Exponential 6.0 can be installed in three ways that all end in the same kind of installation: the setup wizard in a browser, the kickstarter on the command line driven by a kickstart.ini file, and the one-command console…
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Installing by hand, without an installer New
Added for Exponential 6.0.15. The setup wizard, the kickstarter and ./console exp:install do every step of an installation for you ( chapter 4 ). This page does the same steps by hand: for administrators who must control…
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Siteaccesses: how a request finds its site New
Added for Exponential 6.0.15. One Exponential installation can serve several sites: a public website, the administration, the editor, a second website in another language or with another design. Each of them is a siteacc…
Saturday November 07 2026
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Managing wish lists Updated
When the site has a shop, signed-in visitors can keep products on a wish list for later, beside the shopping basket. The site designs of Exponential 6.0.15 offer it: on the Fit & Healthy demo design, every product page h…
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Previewing on the website Updated
Before you publish, you can see your draft as visitors will see it, and check how the page lays out on a phone, a tablet and a desktop. On the site, both are buttons of the website sidebar's Page panel. Previewing change…
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The shop: orders Updated
When the site sells products, its orders are seen in two places: customers see their own orders on the site, and the shop's staff handle all orders in the administration's Store tab (called Webshop in older versions). Cu…
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Accounts of site members Updated
Members are the people with an account on the public site: they register, sign in to read members-only pages, write comments or take part in forums. This page is for the editors and administrators who look after these ac…
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Drafts and versions on the website Updated
A draft is a version of a page that has been saved but not published. Visitors never see drafts; the person who made a draft can finish and publish it, or throw it away. Every published change is kept as a version , so a…
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Managing email notifications Updated
Notifications mail you when content you follow changes: a news folder, a forum topic, a part of the site you look after. You choose what you follow and how often the mail comes, on the site or in the administration; both…
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Translating from the website Updated
A site can show its content in several languages; each siteaccess shows the languages of its language list, the first one first. A translation is another language version of the same page. On the public site, the website…
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Content classes Updated
Every page of a site is of a class : an article, a folder, a landing page, an image. The class decides which fields the page has, how it is shown, and where it can be created. The classes come with the site package the s…
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Working over WebDAV Updated
WebDAV lets your computer's file manager open the content tree like a network drive. You can drag in a pile of images, copy files out, or keep documents up to date by saving over them. Behind the scenes every file is an…
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Adding, editing and removing content Updated
With the website sidebar you create, edit, move, sort and remove pages on the public site, while you look at them. This page also holds what the former chapters Managing content , Editing existing content , Moving conten…
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Editing from the website Updated
This chapter collects the tasks you can do on the public site itself, signed in with your account: with the website sidebar for the pages, and with your profile page for your own drafts, notifications, orders and wish li…
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Running the setup wizard Updated
A new Exponential site is installed from a site package : the classes, the content, the settings and the design of a kind of site, such as the multisite package with the Fit & Healthy demo. There are two ways to install:…
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Site settings for site owners Updated
Some settings of a site are content and are changed by editing an item; others are configuration files read by the server. This page shows site owners where each kind lives in Exponential 6 and what they can change witho…
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Creating help texts for editors Updated
Editors work faster when every field of the edit form says what it is for. A class and each of its fields (attributes) have a description ; the edit form shows the class's description under the title of the form and each…
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Setting up the website Updated
This part is for site owners and administrators: the people who decide what the site offers, how it looks and in which languages, and who keep it fast. Most of the work is done in the administration's Setup and Design ta…
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Templates in the debug bar Updated
When a page looks wrong, the first question is which template drew it. In Exponential 6 the Exp Debug bar answers it: a bar pinned at the bottom of the page, for the people who are given debug output, with tabs for the t…