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Wednesday November 04 2026
- The default administrator password (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Administration · Changed 01:08 pm
Which administrator login and password a fresh installation starts with, for each way of installing (setup wizard, kickstarter, console install, the shipped database seed, packages), and why it must be changed at once. - Demo mode FAQ (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Administration · Changed 01:08 pm
Short answers about demo mode (EXP_DEMO_MODE=1) - what it is for, what it blocks and what it does not, how to switch it on and off, why it cannot come from a setting, which passwords the installers accept, how to tell… - Demo mode (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Administration · Changed 01:08 pm
What changes on an installation that runs as a public demo (the environment variable EXP_DEMO_MODE=1) - administrator passwords cannot be changed or reset, the installers accept the published demo password, a banner… - Designer help, every page (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme design · Changed 01:08 pm
The index of every page for designers in this help, by section: theme design, templates, theme extensions, distribution, sales and the maintenance life cycle. - Designers: start here (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Theme design · Changed 01:08 pm
The landing page for designers: what Exponential's design system is, a first-week plan, the six sections of the designer help (theme design, templates, theme extensions, distribution, sales, maintenance), the tutorials… - A pushed tag is permanent (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Why a tag and the release built from it can never be deleted, moved or re-cut once pushed - Packagist caches what it read, users keep what they installed - and the rules that follow for every theme author. - Annotated tags (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Tag releases with annotated tags (git tag -a) that carry a message, an author and a date; how to write the message, check the tag before pushing, and push only that tag. - Announcing a theme on share.exponential.earth (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Use share.exponential.earth, the Exponential community portal, to announce a theme and support its users - the forums (Extensions, Setup & design), blogs and tutorials it offers, how to write an announcement, and the… - Bumping the version before the tag (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
The release commit - write the new number into ezinfo.php, extension.xml and the other version fields, check them, commit, and only then tag that commit - so the tag carries the right number forever. - Changelog entries: Added, Updated, Removed, Renamed, Fixed (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Write changelog entries and commit messages with one of five prefixes so a changelog can be assembled from history - what each prefix means, good and bad examples, and one change per entry. - Checking what is already published (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Before choosing a version number, list the tags on the remote, the GitHub releases and the versions Packagist knows, because each can know something the others do not. - Choosing a version number (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
How to pick the next version number of a theme - from what is already published, raising only the last position for normal releases, and moving a higher position only as a deliberate decision about what the release… - Choosing where to publish (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
The places a theme for Exponential can be published - a Git host (GitHub), Packagist for Composer, projects.exponential.earth, announcements on share.exponential.earth, and your own website - what each gives you and in… - Commercial terms next to the GPL (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
What a theme author can charge for under the GPL and what cannot be restricted - selling copies, support, services and hosting; separate terms for non-code assets; why a "proprietary" license for theme code is risky… - Copyright notices in files (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Where a theme states its copyright and license - LICENSE, README, metadata files and optional file headers - the notice the Free Software Foundation recommends for GPL code, and how to treat notices of others. - Creating the GitHub repository (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Create a public GitHub repository for a theme with the gh command line or in the browser, connect your local repository, and set the description, website, issues and license so GitHub shows them. - Creative Commons for images and graphics (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
License the images, illustrations and demo photos of a theme - Creative Commons licenses compared, which ones fit a GPL theme, NonCommercial and NoDerivatives pitfalls, and how to record where each image came from. Not… - Demo content for a theme (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Demo content that shows a theme at its best and at its limits - which pages to create, realistic but invented text, licensed images, long titles and empty fields - and how to ship it as a package or seed data. - Running a demo site (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
Give people a live preview of a theme - options for hosting a demo, keeping it current with each release, resetting it automatically, and keeping it safe when the public can look at (or log in to) it. - Checklist: before you publish (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Publishing and distribution · Changed 01:08 pm
The final checklist before a theme release goes public - repository, licenses, version and tag, release notes, Packagist, screenshots, listings, support and security - each item linked to the page that explains it.
