Recent changes
Saturday November 07 2026
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The edit form Updated
The edit form is where the content of an item is written and changed, in every tab of the administration: Content structure , Media and Users . It opens when you press Edit on an item's page, choose Edit in in an item's…
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Relations Updated
A relation records that one item uses another: an article uses an image, a page points to related articles, a text embeds a file to download. The item that is used stays an item of its own, so it can be used by many item…
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The Media tab: the media library Updated
The Media tab opens the media library: the part of the content tree kept for images, documents, videos, banners and other files that pages use. This page explains what it is for and how it differs from the Content struct…
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Signing in and out Updated
The administration is a part of the installation of its own, a siteaccess , with its own address. Whoever opens it is asked to sign in first. This page explains signing in and out, what to do when it does not work, and a…
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The screen: header, columns and tabs Updated
This page describes the parts of the administration's screen in more depth than the walk-around in The administration interface : the header and its buttons, the two side columns, the main area with an item's page, the c…
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Setting up password expiry Updated
This page is for the administrator of the server who turns on password expiry with the extension ezmbpaex . It is part of Exponential 6 and works with the installation's own version; nothing needs to be downloaded. The s…
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Password rules and expiry Updated
This chapter is about the rules a site sets for passwords: how long and how varied a password must be, when a user must replace it, and how long a password stays valid. Exponential 6 has most of it built in; passwords th…
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Setting up ezodf Updated
This page is for administrators. ezodf is installed with Exponential 6, and the setup wizard activates it for a new installation. It needs no database tables of its own. Everything else is done in the administration; no…
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Word processor documents: import and export Updated
With the extension ezodf , documents written in a word processor become content, and content goes back out as documents. Word (DOCX, DOC), OpenDocument (ODT), RTF, PDF, Markdown, HTML, plain text, spreadsheets and presen…
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Setting up multi-upload Updated
This page is for administrators. The upload page comes with the extension ezmultiupload , which Exponential 6 installs and a new installation activates. The Admin 4 designs draw the full page with quick locations, the qu…
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Uploading many files at once Updated
The upload page takes one file or hundreds at a time: by button, by dragging files or whole folders onto it, or by pasting an image you copied. Each file becomes an item of its own, an Image for a picture and a File for…
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ezjscore.ini settings Updated
The settings of ezjscore are in ezjscore.ini. Most sites never change them. This page says what each block is for and when a site owner might ask for a change; the full reference, with every setting, its default and an e…
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Scripts and style sheets (ezjscore) Updated
ezjscore is the extension that loads the scripts and style sheets of every page. It ships with Exponential 6 and is active on a standard installation: there is nothing to install. Site owners meet it in three places: the…
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Editing an image Updated
This page explains the image editor of the Admin 4 design. It opens from the image field of the edit form. For what the editor is and how a site switches it on, see The image editor . Open the editor Edit an item that ha…
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The image editor Updated
Exponential has an image editor inside the edit form. When you edit an item with an image field, you can crop, rotate, flip and resize the image, change its brightness and contrast, make it black and white or sepia, pixe…
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The trash: restoring content Updated
Removed items go to the trash first, unless Move to trash was unticked when they were removed. From the trash you can put them back, or delete them for good. See Removing content for the removal itself. Who can do this E…
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Finding your way in the tree Updated
Everything on an Exponential site is an item in one big tree: pages, articles, images, files and even user accounts. Before you edit, move or remove something, you open it. This page shows the ways to get there; searchin…
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Sub items and sorting Updated
The items directly below an item are its sub items . The parent decides their order, for example by name, by date, or by a number you give each one (priority). The site and its menus use that order. The Sub items list in…
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Your account Updated
Every user can look after their own account: the name and e-mail address, the password, two-step sign-in, the devices that are signed in, and which e-mail the site sends. In the administration all of it starts on the pag…
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User registration with approval Updated
On some sites a new account should not work until someone has looked at it: a new editor's account, or the registration of a member on an intranet or a club site. Exponential does this with the same approval that holds c…