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.

When you want to use an exotic font you’ll always end up with SEO problems. Ofcourse there is SIFR but this requires flash and there are still a lot of big companies who won’t allow flash on their computers. And even though you can set alt and titles attributes for graphical headers using TypoScript, a [...]

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 | [...]

With this line of User TSConfig you can enable non-be-admin’s to clear all cache the way an admin would. options.clearCache.all = 1

TYPO3 produces a lot of comments, prefixes, metatags etcetra… You might want to clean your HTML source code when your website is complete. In order to do this you need TypoScript!

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.