TYPO3 has hidden gems. One of them is the system extension feedit which adds frontend editing to TYPO3. It adds some options to the admin panel in TYPO3 frontend, and allows integrators to add more fine grained edit experience right into the content.

This post will cover most of the provided features, with screenshots and how to configure the extension. I'll also explain why I prefer the approach of EXT:feedit over extensions like EXT:frontend_editing.

With TYPO3 version 10 around the corner, it is time to have a deeper look at new features. I often hear something like "those features are only targeting developers". Therefore I try to promote opportunities for agencies and users, provided by the new more technical features.

Expect a round up of ext:dashboard, new notification API, PSR-14 Events, and some more.

TYPO3 uses pages to organise the structure of a website. This leads to situations where you have a specific page for a feature, e.g. a page “Search” containing the plugin to display search results. Or a page containing the profile of the currently logged in user. Typically links to these pages are scattered all over the website, e.g. within some content elements, inside the page layout like header and within some plugins.

This Blog post explains how to provide the page uid for a specific page, to all three kinds of “content”, where you typically need this information, with three lines of TypoScript.

As an TYPO3 integrator or developer you will login into the same TYPO3 installations multiple times during the same day. There are different ways to prevent the need to login over and over again. One is to add a bit of PHP to the installation, e.g. inside AdditionalConfiguration.php to prevent any login. This should save a lot of time during development.

In this blog post this solution will be shown and explained. You will never ever have to login on your local installation anymore.