TYPO3 Newsletter - NOVEMBER 2020

The versions 10.4.10 and 9.5.23 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System have just been released.

Both versions are security releases and contain important security fixes - read the corresponding Security Advisories here

The first remote accessibility sprint took place from 21st to 23rd of October 2020 and it was successful indeed. During these three productive days we focused on knowledge sharing, addressing open issues, and creating a practical checklist for developers. An accessible TYPO3 improves the experience of every user of TYPO3.

A lot of things have happened since our last update in July 2020. We've made progress on UX concepts, on content blocks creation, and on rendering strategies. Here is some important information about our latest achievements.

The TYPO3 Extension Repository now includes the status of translations for extensions drawn from Crowdin. This is an exciting development because TYPO3 is an international community. Previously, it was difficult to find out the status of translation for particular extensions, and now it is publicly available for all users to see.

Welcome to the TYPO3 Interview Series - 6! We have launched the TYPO3 initiative for business executives, professional freelancers, marketers, decision-makers etc. The ultimate goal, Inspiring people to communicate about TYPO3 eco-system by keeping the philosophy of OpenSource.

TYPO3 Women & Girls rocks at TYPO3 Community! Today, I'm proud to write first-time in the TYPO3 history blog about T3-Womaniya ;) Are you interested to know who the top active TYPO3 women in the community are? Here we go!

The CKEditor is a very comprehensive and above all very customizable WYSIWYG editor (What you see is what you get). As one of the most popular editors, also in other CMS, we are happy to have this editor on board since TYPO3 8.5.0. This means that the existing system extension rtehtmlarea is now obsolete.

Who hasn't experienced this: We want to have a "/go/shop" redirect. But now the source is multilingual. Even if you make a "/go/shop-en" and "/go/shop-de", it is difficult to link to a language via the page link wizard in the backend. Reason enough to solve this in a cool way...

Are you looking to implement TypoScript lint in TYPO3? For better TYPO3 code quality, Always pass your TypoScript code with below lint.

How to validate form fields depending on other form fields.

TYPO3 v10 deprecated and TYPO3 v11 removed all fluid widget code. The most used widget was probably the pagination widget. Since TYPO3 10.2 a new pagination API has been integrated into the TYPO3 core - let's take a look at how it can be used.

This blog post is about resources for TYPO3 beginners - in TYPO3 terminology you want to learn the "TYPO3 Editor" skills. If you are looking for German resources, you want to look for "Redakteur". When you are already more familiar with the content management system, you can look out for "integrator" related skills. Thank you to Olivier Dobberkau (TYPO3 President), Jochen Weiland (jweiland.net) and Daniel Siepmann (TYPO3 Documentation Team) for giving inputs for the blog post!

The TYPO3 ViewHelper are a powerful tool. The Fluid-ViewHelper f:image brings numerous functionalities to output images. But unfortunately it does not know any GIFBUILDER effects. We can change that.

Woohoo! TYPO3 (aka PHP) people's long-awaited Composer 2.0 has been launched with lightning-fast speed. In this blog, I want to highlight major features, TYPO3 meets Composer 2.0, an interesting TYPO3 case study for Composer 2.0, What if your TYPO3 project doesn't support Composer 2.0, etc. As a TYPO3 Developer, you should be aware of it. Keep reading!

The meeting will take place exclusively as a video conference!

The December meeting will again be held as an online meeting.

TYPO3 International Meetup Days is the expression of our dedication to Open Source and Community. It is also the manifest of our belief that TYPO3 is the best open source CMS for enterprise-level projects and that all web developers, from any part of our world, should have the chance to learn about it and to discover the great opportunities that it offers.

The TYPO3camp Munich took place in September again this year. But that was the only thing we were used to! During the planning phase in March, it became clear that this year would be very different! The newly assembled team soon asked itself whether a presence camp on site would be feasible at all in the Corona crisis...