Posts Tagged ‘tt_news’

TYPO3 Preview: tt_news 3.0

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! [...]

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TYPO3: 301 redirect pages or tt_news records

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 [...]

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TYPO3: 5 things about tt_news

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.

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TYPO3: Quick RSS feed of tt_news

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 | … | [...]

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TYPO3: A better tt_news page browser

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 [...]

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TYPO3: Auto generated tt_news image using GIFBUILDER

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.

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