What does it do?

A record based blog extension for TYPO3 CMS powered by Extbase / Fluid. Flexible and powerful!

Currently implemented features:

  • Blog systems with comments, categories and tags
  • Use all TYPO3 content elements within your blog posts
  • Views: list, detail, latest, categories, archive, latest comments (each is a FE plugin)
  • Filter posts by category, tag or author
  • Fields for preview text and image
  • Subscriptions for new comments and new blog posts
  • Wordpress like subscription manager (manage all subscriptions from a dashboard)
  • Opt-In mails for subscriptions with configurable expiration date
  • Configurable spam check: “I am human” checkbox, honeypot, cookie and user agent
  • Auto close comments functionality
  • Allow some HTML tags in comment message
  • RSS feed for posts
  • BE Module with dashboard and lists for posts, comments and subscriptions
  • Default HTML markup matches Twitter Bootstrap 3.x
  • Reasonable email sending, even when you accept comments in BE (extension module AND default list module, using TCEMAIN hooks)
  • Send HTML and / or text emails
  • Preview of hidden posts (drafts)
  • Reasonable cache handling (using cache tags)
  • Supports migration (of EXT:t3blog) and is tested in TYPO3 7.x and 8.x
  • Multi language support
  • Link validator support
  • Using Pootle translation server (translation.typo3.org)
  • A few unit tests
  • Using interfaces and signal / slot for easy extending

Tip

Visit & contribute: https://github.com/fnagel/t3extblog

Screenshots

Frontend

Blogsystem

Blogsystem

Comment form

Comment form

Archive

Archive

Subscription Manager

Subscription Manager

Backend

Dashboard

Dashboard backend module

Post records list

Post records backend module