TYPO3-Addict is your TYPO3 Blog. Bringing you tips and tricks for developing websites with TYPO3. Here you'll find TypoScript snippets, TSConfig and configuration options for your own TYPO3 website.

No article or TypoScript this time, but a screenshot preview of the new tt_news 3.0 which will hopefully be out soon! There are some visual changes but I believe most of the improvements are ‘under the hood’. It’s obvious this trunk version is far from ready but it’s good to know there is still progress! [...]

In this post I’ll show you 5 things about tt_news which might be nice to know about tt_news. We discuss a better pagebrowser, loading tt_news without cache and making images perfectly square by generating them automatically.

In this post I’m going to show you some basics of SEO in TYPO3, I will explain how you can easily handle SEO stuff within TYPO3. This is not a “best practise” nor is it a tutorial on how SEO works. But if you’re new to TYPO3, or SEO in TYPO3 you’ll find some useful things here.

A small trick when working with realurl. If you want generate all url path’s at onces just create a sitemap page (not in menu) and visted it. All pages in the sitemap do now have a realurl path generated.

RSS-feeds of tt_news are really simple. To make it even more easy just copy-paste this to your TypoScript setup:
plugin.tt_news {
# SYS-Folder with newsitems
pid_list =
# Page with single view
singlePid =
displayXML {
xmlTitle = Your RSS title
xmlLink = Your website url
xmlDesc = Your RSS description
subheader_stdWrap.crop = 250 | … | [...]

Sometimes you walk into things you should have known by now… This week I was setting up a tt_news configuration, which I have done like a million times, and found this code:

plugin.tt_news {
usePiBasePagebrowser = 0
}

Now, just out of curiosity I set it to 1, just to see what happened… What do you know… way better [...]