Category

Categories are not mandatory but make it easier to structure news records. The category records themselves are supplied by the TYPO3 Core and might be shared with other extensions.

Add a category

Categories can be added in the News administration or List module.

Properties

Field

Description

Title

Title of the category. This field is required!

Parent category

The parent category is used to build a category tree. Therefore select the parent of the current category. If nothing selected, the category is used as a root category.

Image

Image of the category which can be shown next to a category title.

Description

Description of the category

Single-view page for news from this category

If a page is defined, it is used as page for displaying the news record. If a news record belongs to more than one category, only the 1 st category is checked for this field.

News category shortcut

Optional link of a news category to the given page

SEO: <title>-Tag

Can be used to set a special <title>-Tag for category pages. This must be enabled in the template:

<f:if condition="{categories.0.title}">
   <n:titleTag>
      <f:format.htmlentitiesDecode>{categories.0.title}</f:format.htmlentitiesDecode>
   </n:titleTag>
</f:if>
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SEO: Meta-Description

Can be used to set a special meta description for category pages. This must be enabled in the template:

<f:if condition="{categories.0.description}">
   <n:metaTag name="description" content="{categories.0.description -> f:format.stripTags()}" />
</f:if>
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SEO: Headline

Can be used to set a special headline for category pages, e.g. for H1 tag This must be enabled in the template:

<f:if condition="{categories.0.headline}">
   <f:then>
      <h1>{categories.0.headline}</h1>
   </f:then>
   <f:else>
      <h1>News Category</h1>
   </f:else>
</f:if>
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SEO: Text

Can be used to add additional content text for category pages This must be enabled in the template:

<f:if condition="{categories.0.text}">
   <f:format.html>{categories.0.text}</f:format.html>
</f:if>
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