TYPO3 functions overview

TYPO3 offers a very extensive list of functions, which are divided into various subgroups. These can be found below:

Content editing and management:

  • Rich Text Editor (CKEditor)
  • Responsive backend for editing on tablets and smartphones
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Spell checker
  • Configurable user interfaces
  • Editing history / undo
  • Clipboard for copying / moving
  • Frontend or backend editing
  • Preview for content and pages
  • Internal keyboard shortcuts
  • Minimal training required
  • Form, table and image wizard
  • Internal search
  • Image upload via drag & drop
  • Image cropping in the TYPO3 backend
  • Automatic image scaling
  • Responsive images
  • Different image sections for different device types

Security:

  • Overview of changes
  • Publish content only after approval (workflows)
  • Individual user and group rights for workspaces, content types and page structure
  • Login history
  • Reduce login to IP
  • Restrict login to one domain
  • SSL encryption
  • Email alert for login failures
  • Independent test and development environments for new features on the domain
  • Warning when a data record is edited by several users
  • User and password management
  • Versioning of pages and content
  • "Undo" of every change
  • Editing history

Simplifications for administrators:

  • Comparison of backend user rights
  • Plug-in management on the page on which they were inserted
  • Multi-Sites
  • Multi-domains
  • Backend user and group management (ACL)
  • "Act as User XY" option
  • Database check
  • System reports
  • Scheduler for time-controlled execution of processes

Management:

  • File Management
  • Banner Management
  • Multi-clipboard for multiple content
  • Link management
  • Manual or automatically controlled show/hide of pages
  • Manual or automatically controlled show/hide of content
  • Online administration
  • Root and subpage management
  • Web statistics
  • Web-based translation management

Flexibility:

  • PHP via CGI
  • Integration of content on multiple pages
  • Extensible user profiles
  • User interface localization incl. language icons
  • Input of metadata for search engine optimization
  • Multi-language page structure
  • Multi-language content elements
  • Search engine friendly URLs
  • Different content for different users

Image processing:

  • Generally programmable image processing - also using fonts (TTF, OTF)
  • Scaling
  • rotation
  • Cropping
  • Image enhancement (brightness, contrast, sharpness)
  • File type conversion
  • Color space conversion
  • Placement of the image on the page
  • Predefine image size and positioning
  • Click enlargement with integration of lightboxes or zooms
  • Individual image frames
  • Dynamic image captions
  • Masks

Personalization:

  • Frontend User Registration
  • Frontend user login
  • Personalization of pages and content