TYPO3 Newsletter - January 2020

Feature freeze ahead! This is a reminder to contributors that we have less than a month to bring in new features for TYPO3 v10 LTS (release scheduled in April 2020).

The release of TYPO3 10 LTS has been postponed to April 21, coinciding with the annual general meeting of the TYPO3 Association. There will also be a big release party at the TYPO3 GmbH headquarters in Düsseldorf. But of course you can also organize a release party yourself, e.g. in your TYPO3 user group.

TYPO3's Marketing Team lead, Luisa Faßbender, shares the teams' goals for 2020, as they get ready for a sprint to kick off the new decade.

A revamped Marketplace concept, the future of our marketing and events, as well as the topics to receive a special emphasis in 2020 were some of the topics at this year's last physical meeting.

The creation and maintenance of content elements and content structures in the TYPO3 content management system is to become more intuitive and clearer for editors in future thanks to an improved UX. And without the need for an additional extension. This is the aim of the Structured Content Initiative.

TYPO3 10.2 comes with a new solution for intercepting and extending code. With PSR-14 integrated into the TYPO3 core we can now use Events instead of Signals and Hooks. Let's find out how!

The fslightbox plugin is a very lightweight but powerful lightbox plugin because it does not need jQuery or any other JavaScript frameworks.

Before TYPO9 it was not easier to display the title of your own data set in the breadcrumb (or rootline) navigation, but there were examples like sand by the sea. If you now rely on data processors to generate menus, you will find a few requests in forums, but no good instructions. This is a small guide on how to enrich the breadcrumbs with the title of your own data records. Each extension is implemented differently, so this is not a simple copy & paste.

Blog post about configuring TYPO3 plugins as native Content Elements. This should ease working with TYPO3 for editors.

An overview of the various options

Are you looking for good TYPO3 SEO tools & techniques that can help you to improve your TYPO3's on-site SEO? Then, you are at the correct place.You may already have found & read a lot of articles about what are the important things you need to take care for SEO. But it's difficult to find where and how to implement those SEO features into the TYPO3 site. Here we go!

List of upcoming TYPO3 events in 2020 - keep your calendar ready and make a note!

Link building is one of the most important ranking factors in the field of search engine optimization. A distinction can be made between external linking, which is often referred to as backlink building, and internal linking. This article explains what you need to bear in mind with the latter form of link building in order to avoid giving away or even losing important ranking potential for your own website.

Not only hardcore developers can work with the terminal (the console), but also front-end developers and designers may come into contact with it at some point. Above all, some things can be done much more quickly and easily than via the graphical user interfaces of operating systems.

Standard HTML tables are not that complex. But when developers are unfamiliar with HTML or let third-party libraries generate them, they are usually an inaccessible over-engineered mess. One of the more common reasons I hear developers reach for them is because they want fixed headers. For simple tables, that is mostly unnecessary.