Fluid Styled Content (FSC) is the new standard for rendering the standard content elements of TYPO3 in the frontend. It is a replacement for the good old system extension “CSS Styled Content“ (CSC). The goal of FSC is to ease the templating for the frontend. This article shows how to use and customize FSC. (more…)
On tuesday, February 17th, the TYPO3 development team released the maintenance updates of TYPO3 for the versions 6.2 and 7.6. Four security patches and many bugfixes were included. Read on for details … (more…)
Since TYPO3 version 7 there is a new image cropping tool available in the backend. It enables the editors to select and save a region of an image right where they add the image. This post explains the usage, its configuration and how to use it in your own extensions.
As (probably) any other open source community the TYPO3 community is distributed around the world. In order not to get lost in the digital universe, all community members should stay in contact. This should be not only by digital means, but also afk (away from keyboard). Here is an overview, how can get or stay in contact with each other. (more…)
Since some years now the standard format for TYPO3 documentation is “Restructured Text“ (reST). As there are more formatting options as in „markdown“ (md), it is a little bit harder to write documentation and to control the outcome. This situation gets much better, if you know and use the sphinx extension. (more…)
The TYPO3 community is getting more and more active and the events and meet ups are becoming more. So it gets quite hard to keep the overview over all gatherings that happen. So I decided to add a calendar to this blog.
At the TYPO3 developer days the core team members decided to drop the TYPO3 specific coding guidelines and to switch to the PSR-2 standard. This change was done in the night from Oct. 08 to 09 using a single huge commit. Read on for the complete story how to adapt your personal dev environment. (more…)
