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Sunday November 08 2026
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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…
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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…
Saturday November 07 2026
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Images and files Updated
This page is for editors who put images, documents and other files on the site and use them in pages. In Exponential every file you upload becomes an item of its own: an image becomes an Image item, most other files a Fi…
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Translating content Updated
An item can exist in several languages. Each language is a translation of the same item: it has its own text, but the same place in the tree, the same images where a field is not translatable, and the same version histor…
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The AI assistant in the editor Updated
Exponential Intelligence is the writing assistant of the administration (the extension expai ). It writes, rewrites, shortens, translates and suggests text while you edit, and it can write alternative texts for images. I…
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Comments Updated
Visitors can comment on pages such as blog posts and products. In Exponential 6 a comment is an item of the Comment class, with a subject, an author and a message, stored below the page it is about. Because a comment is…
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Tagging content Updated
Tags are keywords from a shared tree. Content with the same tag is grouped on the site, for example on the page of the tag, in a tag cloud or in a list of related articles. Tags come with the extension eztags , which a n…
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Sending a newsletter Updated
The newsletter of Exponential comes with the extension cjw_newsletter . Visitors subscribe to a list on the site; editors write editions in the administration, check them and send them to the subscribers of the list. An…
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Building pages with Layouts Updated
Exponential Layouts arranges pages from blocks. A layout decides what a page is made of and where each part goes; the content items still hold the text and images. This page is for editors and site builders who arrange p…
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Languages of the site Updated
There are two kinds of language in Exponential. Content languages are the languages your pages are written in: an article can exist in English and in German, each a translation of the same item. The interface language is…
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SEO title, description and the sitemap Updated
The title and description that search engines and link previews show come from a page's meta data field. Without them the site uses the page's name and its first text. The same field decides whether the page is listed in…
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Caches for site owners Updated
Caches make pages fast: Exponential keeps finished pages, compiled templates, settings and packed files, and builds them again only when something changes. Publishing renews the caches of what was published by itself, so…
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Two-step sign-in Updated
With two-step sign-in your password alone no longer opens your account: after the password, the sign-in asks for a 6-digit code from an app on your phone or from an e-mail. Someone who learns your password still cannot g…
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Roles and policies: who may do what Updated
What a user may do in Exponential is decided by roles . This page explains how roles work, how to read what a role allows, how to create one and how to give it to users. It is for administrators; everyone else can read t…
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The help center Updated
Exponential 6 brings its documentation with it. The help center in the administration shows the help pages of the installation's own version: a user manual with one page per task, guides for each audience, the documentat…
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Finding content Updated
The quickest way to an item is often to search for it. The administration has three tools: the search field in the header for words, the search page with its filters, and the Content finder when you know a number, a path…
Friday November 06 2026
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Debugging templates Updated
When a page looks wrong, three questions come up: which template printed this, why that template and not mine, and what went wrong inside it. Exponential answers them with the Exp Debug bar, template path comments and a…
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The Template Editor Updated
The Template Editor in the administration interface lists the templates of a siteaccess, shows the override rules of each template in the order they are tried, creates and removes overrides, reorders them, changes their…