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.

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 [...]

If you have a image in your latest of list view sometimes you just don’t have a appropriate picture, but no picture would distroy your nice design. tt_news can automatically insert a generated image, using GIFBUILDER. This TypoScript snippet is a latest view, but list is also posible. Adjust the output by reading this.

When trying to embed a video in tt_news I sadly came to the conclusion this was in no way posible. There are a few extension to embed YouTube video in tt_news but since my video was from another website I was out of luck. I wrote an extension to insert raw HTML into a tt_news [...]