What does it do?

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

Currently implemented features:

General

• Blog system with posts, categories, tags, comments and subscriptions
• Use all TYPO3 content elements within your blog posts
• BE Module with dashboard and lists for posts, comments and subscriptions
• Views: list, detail, latest, categories, archive, latest posts and comments (each is a FE plugin)
• Filter posts by category, tag or author
• Fields for preview text and image in list view
• RSS feed for posts
• Preview of hidden posts (drafts)
• Multi language support
• Link validator support
• Speaking URLs support
• Sitemap support

Comments and subscriptions

• 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
• GDPR / DSGVO checkboxes
• 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

Developer related

• Reasonable cache handling (using cache tags)
• Default HTML markup matches Twitter Bootstrap 3.x
• Using Pootle translation server (translation.typo3.org)
• Using interfaces and signal / slot for easy extending
• Supports migration (of EXT:t3blog) and is tested in TYPO3 6-9
• A few unit tests

Tip

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

Screenshots

Frontend

Blogsystem

Comment form

Archive

Subscription Manager

Backend

Dashboard

Post records list