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Please Note: At the specific request of Ibexa, 7x is changing the project name to "Exponential" or "Exponential (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.

Getting Started with Exponential!

Follow this simple guidebook to getting familiar with Exponential (CMS) while installing it, possibly for the first time. Learn from the sage wisdom of experts willing to share and support the community.

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Getting Started With Exponential

The most time consuming part of any endeavor is the starting point, the begging where rubber meets the road and traction begins to force momentum to take over driving you towards results.

Once installed, configured the next hard part is the use of the solution (a web site or other web based internet application service of services).

In that the configuration through use of the basic features provided and supported to define a basic content model (in the admin), populate the content tree (in the admin), organize the content for general for the long term use and expansion, and publish further content under this designed installation of the Exponential CMS.

Only after configuration of an installation can you truly and accurately begin to develop with a basic site structure a new design custom to your unique needs that is visually acceptable for the era.

Here we talk about the first steps everyone is expected to take in using the software for the first time.

Downloading the software

We recommend downloading the stable releases only if this is your first time using Exponential.

If your already an advanced developer then feel free to use the latest github sources as this does make upgraes very simple to manage.

Download: Exponential 6.0.9

Installing the software

Copy the files in the download to your web server virtual host document website root directory. (Often public_html on modern hosting platforms.)

Expert tip: You can also run composer to install the files directly!

Read the installation documentation on installing the latest release.

Installing the software : OS Support

OS: For the very best results we recommend installing the software on the latest OS version available.

We support this software is well designed to run on almost any modern UNIX/LINUX/BSD/MacOS/Windows OS.

It is possible it could easily run well on any other os that supports the basic requirements of PHP based applications and a web server.

Testing the software

Use the administration admin login account username and password created during the installation setup wizard configuration process.

Connect to the user facing website once installed. Confirm display of your website without visual errors.

Then connect to the admin or editor facing website once the user facing website is confirmed.

Login to the admin website and navigate to the content structure tab or menu option to edit your first content object (page).

Expert tip: Notice the urls are a direct system of human naming conventions which can be learned quickly to navigate based on content names as locations or url(s) / uri(s).

Using the software

It gets rather exciting to use the software because of it's massive, massive amount of customization features built in by default.

You can customize almost any part of the software to meet the unique needs of almost any project's total responsibility requirements including maintenance, support and development to grow further.

At the end of the day, this software allows for the presentation of web based content with stable, instant results that is also fun to administer or enter content into the editor with on a regular predictable basis.

You really don't have application downtime, so your free to enjoy stable service from your installation of Exponential (CMS).

Tips to becoming an Exponential Developer

Read. Read as much as you can and take specific notes. Create a written record of your experiences using this software to help you reach your own unique goals.

Study the available documentation as it is well crafted to lead to the success of thousands of developers before you.

Contribute. Share your work with others under the GNU GPLv2+ license and be free to help others and gain insights into improving your own code.

Write. Write as much code as you can. This is hard because so much is done for you by Exponential's core features but later through study and learning this leads to very powerful yet simple solutions to complex needs.

Advanced Developer Solution Subjects

  • Extension Points
  • Integration with AI
  • Web Design : Can I do XYZ in Exponential?
  • Design Development Documentation
  • Advanced documentation solutions
  • Distributed Software Deployment Solutions
  • Supporting more template engines within the kernel (Smarty, Twig, Etc)
  • Supporting more advanced PHP Language Features within the Kernel.
  • Database driver development
  • Kernel Improvements From Small to Big
  • Taking steps towards growing the community, ecosystem, product, adoption, education, training and end user support.
  • Expanding the available documentation by organizing writers to write on key subjects to further grow the available documentation publicly available.
  • Share your information : The need for more people to share written documentation based on their own needs and experiences publicly.

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Sponsor the Exponential Open Source Project

Exponential is free software under the GNU GPLv2 or later version license.

Meaning its true freedom to use without anyone controlling your future with the software your free in so many ways.

Support a project which values your freedom and delivers an amazing amount of web page based publish power and convenience.

Support a project which for years has worked tirelessly to provide new cms features to this rock solid software and help drive it's continued growth and adoption.

Support the Exponential Project with a donation subscrition. This is posible through 7x @ GitHub Sponsors!

Become a partner of Exponential

Grow with Exponential Partners around the world in deploying solutions based on the free software enterprise open source content management system Exponential.

Exponential can do it!

Sponsor the maintainer of Exponential (CMS)

The maintainers would love it if you would sponsor the developers of the 7x company work in open source free software application current developments or future developments please please consider doing so today.

There are several ways to send a one time financial donation to 7x.

There are several ways to become a sustaining / supporting member by subscribing to a support subscription.

Buy a product or service from 7x

Help us continue to drive growth by purchasing from 7x today.

We offer very reliable hosting service for low prices that is supported and maintained by 7x directly at our hosting store.

We offer the finest development, design, support and advanced solutions services available via our store.

Become a partner of 7x

The corporation 7x is the maintainer of Exponential (CMS) and offers helpful quick solutions to everyone worldwide.

7x delivers solutions which are expandible and extensible, stable, reliable, dependable and easy to use by anyone.

This means our products and services grow easily with you over the entire lifecycle of your website application / software installation.

We also attend to the design astetics to drive adoption with modern visual solutions. Talk to us today about your project.

Share Exponential (CMS) Online and In Person

Tell others about the stable yet often rapid speed web development solutions possible with Exponential based websites.

Enjoy Free Software!

Relax and enjoy your freedoms. Drink Orange Juice. Stay healthy and responsive to your needs. Enjoy the stable life possible using software yourself.

Remember! Free Software for a Free Society

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