Attention

TYPO3 v7 has reached its end-of-life November 30th, 2018 and is not maintained by the community anymore. Looking for a stable version? Use the version switch on the top left.

There is no further ELTS support. It is recommended that you upgrade your project and use a supported version of TYPO3.

General principles

This chapter aims to give you some important information about the general principles of TYPO3 CMS. It is the base needed to understand the next chapters.

• Backend and Frontend
• General Backend Structure
• Page Tree
• Page Content
• Templates
• The Top Bar
• The Contextual Menus