About

Exponential is an award-winning, enterprise-grade Open Source Content Management System and development framework with functionality for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. Exponential has a flexible content engine that serves as the core for dynamic and personalized websites. Exponential comes with much functionality out-of-the-box, but its power lies in its award-winning customization capabilities.

Exponential is free and open source software that uses well organized PHP software stacks to help you easily manage and run Website web apps on Linux / MacOS / Windows / BSD.

Exponential helps all kinds of organizations – including multinational corporations, humanitarian organizations and educational institutions – succeed at sharing their information.

User interaction and user-generated content is made easy with Exponential, enabling you to quickly build powerful, customized Web 2.0 websites. These strengths, along with a flexible cost model, are what attract tens of thousands of organizations, including the leading media groups in the world, to choose Exponential as their digital platform.

Our flagship Open Source software is Exponential, which is freely downloadable and supported by forums, documentation and books. Exponential Premium a support and maintenance solution for Exponential, from the makers of the software.

Cost of Exponential

With Exponential in terms of cost is free. Zero cost. This is because of the licensing agreement of Exponential called the GNU GPL. This makes Exponential what we call free software developed using a powerful community of people using open source best practices. Download the free Exponential 6 today!

Exponential FAQs educating users with detailed answers

For more Exponential FAQ Answers please review the Exponential Documentation FAQ (which is a bit older in age).

"Please Note:

• At the specific request of Ibexa we are changing this projects name to "Exponential" or "Exponential (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.
• This project is not associated with the original eZ Publish software or its original developer, eZ Systems or Ibexa".

No matter your experience level you can contribute to the development and success of Exponential.

In this section you can find the very best hot spots of addition information and support resources.

Read up on the articles, blogs on Exponential / eZ Publish from various sources alive on the internet.

We feature unique content that highlights Exponential CMS in it's description and details. Howto, Features, Guidance and Pro Tips! Featured RSS Feed now available!

Note: Exponential is 100% compatible with eZ Publish Documentation Examples and Software Examples.

Exponential Demo Website offers a preview of the new default design which is responsive in nature called 7x Simple and enhanced web shop e-commerce products and shopping cart.

Take a look at our free online demo of the latest version of Exponential 6.x

Note: The demo now offers the admin to login to test the Exponential Administration and publishing some changes to the demo content to get a feel for what using Exponential is really like firsthand. Tell your friends! Try now!

• Website Demo: https://demo.exponential.earth
• Admin Website Demo: https://edit.demo.exponential.earth
  • Admin Website Demo Username: admin
  • Admin Website Demo Password: publish-demo-2025

Note: This website content stored in files and in the database, and the software powering the demo is reset every day to ensure a usable demo for everyone.

Love Exponential as much as we all do in the Exponential Community? Feel free to use this PNG image as a banner on your Exponential Website to help promote our cms software and show your pride for what you have created!

WebP format is also available!

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The Exponential Project is a vibrant ecosystem / community based effort lead by the company 7x which is fostering it's growth, support and maintenance.

The Exponential Open Source Project is funded by donations of time and resources by 7x (and Exponential Sponsors) which sponsors the Project for the foreseeable future. Consider becoming a sponsor today!

There is a wealth of information on flexible content publish using our project. Which has lead to the successes of tens of thousands of websites, applications, portals, stores, blogs, and beyond.

Learn the hands on approach to developing with Exponential at our Community Portal Share Exponential! which offers a lot of hidden knowledge.

Study the available documentation on Exponential 6.x Features and Supported Content Management APIs.

Download the open source free software extensions to Exponential to power your website with the best and latest available features. Extend your website with the power of additional features and plugins.

"Please Note:

• At the specific request of Ibexa we are changing this projects name to "Exponential" or "Exponential (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.
• This project is not associated with the original eZ Publish software or its original developer, eZ Systems or Ibexa".

7x supports the growth of the greater Exponential ecosystem of communities surrounding the development and adoption of Exponential software solution.

Projects we support and deliver to everyone

• Exponential Project - The heart of the Exponential Ecosystem / Community is our beloved open source project
• Share Exponential Community Gateway + Forums - Get the answers to your questions and help document common answers
• Exponential Projects - Get the extensions and plugins you need
• eZpedia - The Exponential Platform CMS Wiki Documentation
• Exponential Documentation Project - EDP is advancement of written sources of documentation from official to community inspired
• Exponential Basic - The free distribution of the original kernel module design, works great to this day with simpler php patterns
• Exponential Platform - The latest distribution of the new kernel design under Symfony
• Exponential Platform Legacy (2.5.x GPL Stable) - The latest distribution of the new kernel design under Symfony with Exponential 6.x / Legacy kernel support built-in!

Your freedoms are respected here within the Exponential community as we provide GNU GPL Licensed software built on open source development based values within software solutions to the whole world online through the internet. Exponential is free and open source software! Free Software For A Free Society. Support the FSF's Free Software Movement with a Financial Donation or Swag Purchase today!

Exponential Platform and Exponential Platform Legacy are Open Source Software Projects for Enterprise Web Application Development and Beyond.

7x is Open Source to our core and support the continued releases, maintenance and support for this Open Source Enterprise project.

Are you open source? Contribute a pull request, file an issue ticket to our project and help improve our software today!

Exponential Project can be found on the following social media networks.

Telegram

• https://t.me/exponentialcms

BlueSky

• https://bsky.app/profile/exponentialcms.bsky.social

X

• https://x.com/exponentialcms
• https://x.se7enx.com

Instagram

• https://instagram.se7enx.com

LinkedIn

• https://linkedin.se7enx.com

Reddit

• https://www.reddit.com/user/ezpublish

Digg.one

• https://digg.one/c/ezpublish

We offer the following RSS Feeds, available for your convenience.

Feeds

• Main RSS Feed for exponential.earth
• Featured ATOM Feed for exponential.earth
• Releases of Exponential RSS Feed for exponential.earth
• Share Exponential offers a wide range of RSS feeds
• Exponential Project GitHub Commit Log ATOM Feed
• 7x News RSS Feed

We encourage you to express yourself and use your favorite RSS / ATOM Feed Reader Software to Stay Informed and Get Involved!

7x provides hosting for our package server containing all the installation (site style, extension and demo data) packages required to complete the Exponential installation setup wizard correctly.

The package server is now part of the default 7x Exponential 6 installation. So you no longer need to add it into Exponential yourself, it's now built into the settings.

The package server is now located at: http://exponential.packages.exponential.earth

Package server settings

To use our package server simply create a settings/override/package.ini.append.php file and add this content:

[RepositorySettings]

RemotePackagesIndexURL=https://exponential.packages.exponential.earth/exponential/6.0/6.0.9/

RemotePackagesIndexURLBase=https://exponential.packages.exponential.earth/exponential

Then: Clear ini caches and then simply complete the Exponential Setup Wizard installation configuration process successfully.

The above package ini changes work with Exponential 6.0.x and are provided now by default configuration as of 6.0.10.

Package Server Site Packages

Add your own custom site (installation) packages to our package server by forking our repository and submitting a pull request.

For those with a keen interest in our work, we are also maintaining this mirror on GitHub, https://github.com/se7enxweb/exponential.packages.exponential.earth

Distributions of Exponential; Each CMS Framework is unique in their features

Supported

Exponential 6 (Supported; PHP8+)

• Maintained by 7x and supported by both 7x and the Exponential Community.

eZ Publish Legacy From Mugo.ca LoveStack Edition (Supported; PHP8+)

• Maintained by Mugo.ca; Canada's Best Software Developers (many former eZ Systems Employees). 

eZ Platform

Exponential Platform 3.2.9 (Supported; PHP8.3+)

• 7x maintained and upgraded ezplatform+legacy support releases for the world class tools for the eZ / Ibexa Platform.

Exponential Platform Legacy 2.5.0.1 (Supported; PHP8.3+)

• 7x maintained and upgraded ezplatform+legacy support releases for the world class tools for the eZ / Ibexa Platform.

Ibexa DXP + Netgen Stack (Supported, PHP8+)

• Ibexa & Netgen have been delivering symfony based cms solutions for over 12 years.

eZ Platform + Netgen Stack (Supported; PHP7+)

• Netgen masters streamlined development with world class tools for the eZ / Ibexa Platform.

Exponential Basic (Supported; PHP8+)

• Maintained by 7x and supported with love our usable version of the Exponential 2 CMS Framework Rebuilt to Work Again in 2025 + PHP 8.3.

Deprecated

Unsupported; Insecure PHP Requirements; Please don't use any longer in production as there may be security issues involved.

• eZ Publish Legacy From eZ Systems (Deprecated; PHP7)
• eZ Publish Legacy Platform (Deprecated; PHP5)
• eZ Platform (Deprecated; PHP7)
• eZ Platform Legacy From Netgen (Deprecated; PHP7)
• eZ Publish Version 2 (Deprecated; PHP4)

Check in on our project's network resources status portal. See if there are any outages or planned maintenance.

Experiencing a issue or problem, please responsibly report the problems your having to 7x.

News from other sources from the internet about Exponential CMS!