Basic principles

What is the TYPO3 documentation?

TYPO3 documentation may be one of the following:

Common characteristics of TYPO3 documentation

All of these examples have a few things in common:

  • The documentation is rendered and found on https://docs.typo3.org/

  • The documentation has a common theme, all pages look similar and use the same styles

  • Most of the documentation can be directly edited by the community. For third-party extensions, this depends on where and how the source code is hosted and maintained.

  • The source of the documentation is written (mostly) in reStructuredText (reST)

Official TYPO3 manuals

The official TYPO3 manuals are hosted on GitHub. Editing the documentation requires a GitHub account and involves creating a pull request on GitHub.

Find out more about how to contribute: Contribute to the TYPO3 documentation.

Core documentation

The documentation for the TYPO3 Core (changelog and system extensions) is added to the TYPO3 source code. For this reason, the workflow of changing something in the core documentation is very similar to adding a patch to the core.

Find out more about the core contribution workflow in general or about Add Documentation in the Contribution Guide.

In addition to using the core workflow, the core documentation can also be changed via "Edit on GitHub". In this case, a Gerrit patch is created automatically from the pull request.

Extension manuals

The documentation for a third-party extension is maintained within the source code of that extension.

If configured, contributors can also make changes via the "Edit on GitHub".

This option is currently only available for extensions hosted on GitHub.