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What does it do?

A record based blog extension for TYPO3 CMS. Easy to use and packed with features. 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
Multiple core dashboard widgets
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 check, link count
Using TYPO3 core alike rate limiter implementation for throttling requests as additional SPAM check
Email address for comments is optional (but will be enforced if subscription checkbox is enabled)
Pre-fill comment author and email from session
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, 4 and 5
Using official TYPO3 localization tools (Crowdin, see https://crowdin.com/project/typo3-extension-t3extblog)
Using interfaces and signal / slot for easy extending
Supports migration from EXT:t3blog and is tested in TYPO3 6-12
CGL and code quality tests

Tip

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

Screenshots

Screenshots taken from a TYPO3 CMS instance with "Introduction package" (EXT:introduction using EXT:bootstrap_package extension) and T3extblog installed.