TYPO3 Newsletter - March 2020

The versions 9.5.15 and 8.7.32 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System have just been released. Both versions are maintenance releases only.

Today also marks the last official public release of TYPO3 v8 LTS.

Due to the Covid-19 (Corona) virus crisis, the TYPO3 Association Board advises the organization's officials and team leaders to stop physical meetings in the Association's name until further notice.

The CMS Security Summit is an annual, invitation-only event organized by Google, where CMS Security team leads share knowledge with industry colleagues to make CMS systems and the web more secure.

The Structured Content Initiative is the core Strategic Initiative focused on improving the content editing user experience in TYPO3 CMS. Read our last update to learn more about what we've been working on.

Are you also excited to know what's new & why TYPO3 v10 is so special? We would like to share detailed insight with all new features for TYPO3 editors, administrators, integrators and developers.

We are going to write down a three blog series for everyone who loves TYPO3. You will get all the blogs before the final release, Subscribe us to make sure to read them :)

But, for now, in this blog, we would like to let you know some cool things before releasing TYPO3 v10 LTS. It's time to celebrate the achievement of the milestone, appreciate and thanksgiving to the awesome TYPO3 community.

Article suggested by: Sanjay Chauhan

TYPO3 is known for its powerful and flexible caching mechanism. Understanding the basic concepts allows you to build faster websites that drive customer retention-visitors quickly go elsewhere if you make them wait.

A webpage produced by TYPO3 consists of various pieces of content, contained in semantic containers, called "Content Elements" in TYPO3 parlance. Content elements contain a given set of information-a header, text, and an image for example. This set of information is called a "Content Type." Content elements and content types can be re-used or re-ordered, have their output visibility determined by some business logic, sent for translation, and much more. For us, the fact that we (and you!) can build our own blocks is one of the unique selling points (USPs) that sets TYPO3 apart from other CMSs in power and flexibility.

In projects up to TYPO3 8, individual pages could be excluded from URL generation using RealUrl or CoolURI, for example. This was particularly useful for list/detail views if the content or page properties of list and detail pages differed even outside the plugin.

With TYPO3 9LTS, the URL routing concept has changed (significantly for the better!) and it is no longer easily possible to exclude individual pages from the URL segment. A separate route enhancer solves this problem.

This week, I'm going to show you how to set up the TYPO3 v10 dev version on your own computers, and download and apply the latest patches. Next week, come back and I'll show you how to download, apply, and test patches with Gerrit and report any bugs you find.

TYPO3 has hidden gems. One of them is the system extension feedit which adds frontend editing to TYPO3. It adds some options to the admin panel in TYPO3 frontend, and allows integrators to add more fine grained edit experience right into the content.

This post will cover most of the provided features, with screenshots and how to configure the extension. I'll also explain why I prefer the approach of EXT:feedit over extensions like EXT:frontend_editing.

The generation of a title tag is an important building block for findability in search engines. With a content management system such as TYPO3, consistent generation of page titles is easy to ensure. Since version 9LTS, TYPO3 comes with its own PageTitle API, with which page titles can be generated very conveniently.

TYPO3 v10 has introduced many new features as well as improvements to existing features.

For now, Let's checkout one-by-one major features that will help TYPO3 editors as follows.

Article suggested by: Sanjay Chauhan

TYPO3 v10 has introduced some of the new features as well as improvements to existing features.

For now, Let's checkout one-by-one major features that will help TYPO3 administrator as follows.

Article suggested by: Sanjay Chauhan

TYPO3 v10 has introduced some of the new features as well as improvements to existing features.

For now,filet's checkout one-by-one major features that will help TYPO3 Integrator as follows.

Article suggested by: Sanjay Chauhan

URL fragments ("domain.com/page/#interesting-section")-often referred to as "anchors" or "jump links"-are a handy feature for directly navigating a specific section of a web page.

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Display random Background Images from different sources at your TYPO3 BackendLogin Page.

Finally a nice TYPO3 Login screen... Even with TYPO3 10 ;)

Link suggested by: Sven Jürgens

Most of the TYPO3 10 release parties planned as offline events have of course been canceled in the meantime. But there are online alternatives. You can find a list here.