In the following pages we will introduce some of the most important and useful extensions in real-life scenarios.
The news extension should facilitate your introduction to extension administration. It provides the simplest method of publishing new information on your website. News can be displayed with a header, a date, and the first few lines of the news text. You provide an appropriate hyperlink to the complete text. Despite its simple usability, the news extension is nonetheless very complex.
The news extension is no longer a preinstalled section of TYPO3, as was the case in earlier versions, and therefore has to be installed by you. The extension key is tt_news.
In the News page, which you can find in the page tree, you have to set up the following pages:
News: This is a page of the SysFolder type. News is selected from Contains plugin. After you set up the News folder, it is identified with a special icon in the page tree.
Archive Overview: With this and with the...