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.

Due to the huge amount of spam (10+ a day) I’m currently forced to shut down the comment function. It’s even getting hard to separate the spam form the actual comments since these bots keep getting better at faking the reply. I’ll try to implement a captcha as soon as I find the time :) [...]

As of today I’m an official ‘TYPO3 Integrator’ :) I took the Integrator Exam a couple of weeks ago in Brussels, Belgium at the FOSDEM conference. The english e-book version of the original TYPO3 Integrator Exam book (Patrick Lobacher) was a real help. Not only does it help you to prepare for your exam, but [...]

Translating pages can be a real pain. Personally I think the worst thing is the amount of clicks in takes when you need to translate a whole pagetree! Translating 10 pages can take up to 45 clicks through the List module! Can’t this be easier? Yes it can! TYPO3 by default comes with a Localization [...]

I’m getting a lot of traffic lately of people searching for a tutorial on 301 redirects, especially in combination with tt_news. Therefore I’m going to explain how to make such a redirect the easiest way. In this tutorial I’m assuming you already have a website up and running with RealURL installed and you want to [...]

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.

We always use Google Analytics for our website statistics, and I always thought this was a good way to go… I just took a look at a websites who also has Webalizer running, the difference is HUGE! For example: Google Analytics: 126 visits, 248 pageviews Webalizer: 749 visits, 2169 pageviews On the same day! How [...]