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.

I needed an image in the RTE to support the ‘click and enlarge’ option in tt_news. Now, I used Google to find a solution but no luck, although it seems I’m not the only one trying to make this work. Looks like this isn’t as easy as it would sound.. Read more for the solution!

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! [...]

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’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.

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 [...]