Recent changes
Saturday November 07 2026
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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…
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Site design and layout Updated
What a visitor sees on a page is made in three layers: the design draws every page (fonts, colors, header and footer markup), the layout decides which parts a page has and where they go, and the content fills them. In th…
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Style sheets (CSS) Updated
The colors, fonts, spacing and arrangement of a site's pages are set by the style sheets (CSS files) of its design. Changing them is developer or designer work, but site owners should know where they are, how they reach…
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Design extension structure Updated
A site's design lives in a design extension : a folder below extension/ with the design's templates, style sheets, scripts, images and fonts, and the settings that switch it on. Site owners rarely open it, but it helps t…
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Changing the look of the site Updated
The look of an Exponential site comes from its design : templates, style sheets, images and scripts, kept in a design extension. On top of the design, site owners can change a good deal without a developer: the content o…
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Working on the website Updated
Editors do not always need the administration. Signed in on the public site, they can change the page they are looking at, create new pages, move them and look after their own account, right where the visitors see the re…
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The element path Updated
Below the text of each rich text field, the status bar shows the element path : the names of the elements at the cursor, from the outermost to the innermost, for example Path: paragraph » strong » link . It tells you whe…
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Writing rich text Updated
This page explains what rich text is, how the online editors store it, and how to write it without an editor. The other pages of this part show the editors at work, step by step. Rich text is structure, not layout A rich…
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Online editor settings Updated
This page is for administrators. It explains which files shape the online editor and what is usually changed in them. Every setting is listed on the two reference pages, ezoe.ini and ezoe_attributes.ini . Where the setti…
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Setting up the online editor Updated
This page is for administrators. The online editor edits the rich text fields of the edit form (fields of the type XML block ). It is the extension ezoe , which ships inside the Exponential kernel and is active on every…
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The online editors Updated
Rich text fields, such as the intro and the body of an article or the description of a folder, are written with the online editor. It works like a small word processor inside the edit form: you type, choose headings and…
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Versions and drafts Updated
Every save of an item is a version. A published version is never changed in place: each edit makes a new version, and the one it replaces is kept. This page explains the states of a version, the versions page, comparing…