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July 2017

 

TYPO3 Newsletter - July 2017

Welcome to the new issue of the TYPO3 Newsletter. Here you will find news and interesting facts from the TYPO3 universe.

TYPO3 News

Get ready for the TYPO3 CMS Certified Editor Exam

Do you want to make your TYPO3 editor skills official? Then demonstrate your abilities and become a TYPO3 CMS Certified Editor! It's one of TYPO3.org's official exams and shows that you have the relevant abilities to be an editor in TYPO3. If you are interested in doing this exam read on to find out more about this certification and ways to study for it.

TeamWFP organizes TYPO3 Codesprint

Over the Whitsun weekend, a 17-strong team visited TeamWFP in Mönchengladbach to work on the usability and user experience of the TYPO3 backend.

Testing TYPO3's Core - Part II: On Hardware & Dockers

Part 2 of the TYPO3 GmbH blog article series about testing the TYPO3 core during development.

What's new for TYPO3 Editors and in the TYPO3 World

A short overview about all editor relevant changes in TYPO3 8.x and some news (Slideshare).

Pros & cons of open-source software at the enterprise level

When researching your next business software solution, bear in mind the following pros and cons of utilizing open-source software in your business

Mission possible: Summary of the TYPO3 QSA in Malmö, Sweden


CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 82
In their voluntary work for the TYPO3 Association, the members of the Board, the Business Control Committee (BCC) and the Expert Advisory Board (EAB) meet three times a year for a two-day meeting to discuss further projects and future developments.

TYPO3 on YouTube

Do you already know the official TYPO3 YouTube channel? It's been around for a while, but it's been a little quieter in recent months. That seems to be changing now with new videos.

TYPO3 tips

Hook implementation for link handlers

Configuration of the link handler so that editors can link to data records they have programmed themselves.

TYPO3 CKEditor for integrators

TYPO3 8LTS now comes with the CKEditor. What changed and how can I migrate from my old config to the new YAML based presets? (Slideshare)

Language Handling in TYPO3 - Part 2: Frontend

The second part of the language handling series of TYPO3 is about the configuration of the frontend.

TypoScript explained: Option split

The "optionsplit" within TypoScript is a very powerful feature to manipulate the output of repeating elements. This is especially helpful if you do not know how many elements will be there.

Responsive Images with TYPO3 8.7

How to use different techniques for "Responsive images" in TYPO3 8 LTS.

Signals and Slots - Extend TYPO3 Functionality

Signals and slots are a possibility within TYPO3 to extend the functionality of an object. In this article the theoretical basics and practical details are explained.

TYPO3 Extensions

Extension updates in May

A small selection of extensions that were published in the TER in July in a new or updated version (in order of publication, as at 31.07.2017):
  • TYPO3 Blog Extension
    blog
    by TYPO3 GmbH
    This blog extension use TYPO3's core concepts and elements to provide a full-blown blog that users of TYPO3 can instantly understand and use.
  • Social auth
    social_auth
    by VANCLOOSTER Mickael
    Authentification via social auth (Facebook, Twitter, Google & LinkedIn)
  • TemplaVoil Plus
    templavoilaplus
    by Alexander Opitz
    Point-and-click, popular and easy template engine for TYPO3. Replacement for old TemplaVoila.
  • Fluid-FPDF
    fluid_fpdf
    by Thomas Deuling
    This extension provides you a complete set of ViewHelpers for dealing with FPDF by using Fluid. You can use the ViewHelpers easily in own Extensions just by defining the fpdf-Namespace. Additionally youre able to use the build in plugin, for displaying predefined PDF. This plugin offers you automatically all available PDFs.
  • CKEditor Fontawesome Add-On
    rte_ckeditor_fontawesome
    by Dirk Persky
    Adds the Fontawesome add-on to the CKEditor in TYPO3.
  • Enhanced TYPO3 save buttons
    unroll
    by Markus Klein, Armin Vieweg
    Adds options to TYPO3s save buttons, to unroll them from dropdown, just display icons and changing the order.
  • Backend Gravatar
    gravatar
    by Frans Saris
    AvatarProvider for Gravatar support in backend.
  • Resize images automatically
    image_autoresize
    by Xavier Perseguers (Causal)
    Simplify the way your editors may upload their images: no complex local procedure needed, let TYPO3 automatically resize down their huge images/pictures on-the-fly during upload (or using a scheduler task for batch processing) and according to your own business rules (directory/groups). This will highly reduce the footprint on your server and speed-up response time if lots of images are rendered (e.g., in a gallery). Features an EXIF/IPTC extractor to ensure metadata may be used by the FAL indexer even if not preserved upon resizing.
  • Extended System News
    extended_sys_news
    by Frank Nägler
    Display sys_news as flash messages in the BE, useful for release announcements.
  • Infinite Scrolling
    infinitescrolling
    by Stefan Froemken
    With this extension you can read nearly every paginator and realize infinite scrolling
  • Cart
    cart
    by Daniel Lorenz
    Shopping Cart(s) for TYPO3
  • Powermail Conditions
    powermail_cond
    by Alex Kellner
    Add conditions (via AJAX) to powermail forms for fields and pages
  • Error 404 page
    error404page
    by R3 H6
    Use TYPO3 pages for display 404 errors. Optional error 403 redirect handling. Works for multi domain and multilingual installations.
  • Make BE user password really secure
    be_secure_pw
    by Thomas Loeffler
    You can set password conventions to force secure passwords for BE users.
  • fancyBox content
    fancyboxcontent
    by Raphael Zschorsch
    Inserts a fancybox plugin for content
  • [clickstorm] SEO
    cs_seo
    by Angela Dudtkowski, Marc Hirdes, Andreas Kirilow - clickstorm GmbH
    SEO Extension: Enables important on-page features for search engine optimization (SEO). Expands the page settings and any existing records, e.g. with a preview for Google search results (SERP), Open Graph, Twitter Cards and a Focus Keyword. Sitemap.xml and robots.txt handling. Support for Session Tracking (Google Analytics or Piwik) and href="lang" tags. Further features are shown in the extension manual.
This list is only a selection of interesting extensions, not a recommendation or rating. The extensions have not been developed or tested by us.

events

TYPO3 Developer Days 2017 - A review

Review of the TYPO3 Developer Days in Malmö, Sweden, by the jweiland.net team.

TYPO3 Developer Days: Links to the slides

Links to the slides and presentations of the talks at the TYPO3 Developer Days 2017.

TYPO3camp Munich

The 10th TYPO3camp Munich will take place from September 8-10. There are only a few tickets left!

TYPO3camp Hamburg

After a break, the TYPO3camp Hamburg will take place again this year from September 29th to October 1st.

TYPO3camp RheinRuhr

From November 3-5, the TYPO3camp RheinRuhr will take place in Essen. Ticket sales will start in the next few days.

Miscellaneous

Browsercache-empty.com

Very useful page: shows how to quickly clear the cache for the browser you are currently using.

Progressively Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid

CSS grids are the new "hot shit" when it comes to CSS layouts in web design. Browser support is also getting better and better.
 

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