Getting-Started Resources for Editors and Publishers

Get started as a TYPO3 editor with this collection of resources. When ready, you can level up with TYPO3’s official training, then verify your knowledge and become a certified editor.

Editors and publishers are responsible for creating, editing, and publishing content, ensuring it is up to date, accurate, and accessible to website visitors. They work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the site meets the needs of its users.

• Understand the role of a CMS in a website workflow.
• Fluency in TYPO3 editorial concepts and terminology, including navigating the backend modules and structuring the page tree.
• Create pages and work with different page types.
• Add content to pages, and have a familiarity with the different content element types.
• Awareness of other editorial functionality, such as access control, approval workflows, and managing  multiple languages.
• Understand the importance of SEO and how to add basic SEO information in TYPO3 pages.
• Understand the role of TYPO3’s community and open-source ecosystem.

TYPO3 is an open-source enterprise content management system (CMS), equally suitable for startups, agencies, and multinationals. The software delivers fast and flexible content in the form of websites and other online applications.

TYPO3’s editing and publishing features include a user-friendly interface and a range of tools to support your work.

• Customizable publishing workflows. Define roles and permission flows to preview, approve, and finalize content. 
• Scheduled publishing. Optimize your publishing workflow to schedule when content goes online and offline. 
• Fast content creation. Create content efficiently and effectively.
• User access management helps users embody their roles. Fine-grained permissions let you maintain consistent governance across content.
• Reusable layouts, templates, and assets. Create a consistent, unified design with the flexibility to localize.
• Asset management means editors can find the right file every time. Manage shared media assets from a central location and deploy changes system-wide.
• Localization. Implement translation workflows to enable third party services and configure fallback languages to address users in their native tongue.
• Simplify complex content. Use a wide range of media formats to cater to a broad audience with different learning styles.
• Minimize the time between creating and publishing. Decoupled layout and content means editors can get to work without waiting for site design to be finalized.
• Create and manage flexible content structures. Use default content elements or design your own to tailor content for your digital solution.

TYPO3 is backed by a vibrant professional community and commercial ecosystem. Get help from others and learn how to make the best of the CMS.

• This is TYPO3! — Find out more about our global community and organizational structure.
• TYPO3 and Open Source — Learn more about our open-source ethos.

Below is a quick introduction to basic editor and publishing with TYPO3. Click the links to access in-depth guides in the TYPO3 Documentation, which also gets you started with the basic TYPO3 concepts, such as the backend, the frontend, and how they work together.

• Start by logging in to TYPO3 by adding /typo3 to your website’s domain.
• The main navigation in the TYPO3 backend is via the Module menu on the far left side of the browser window. Modules represent tasks or functional areas.
• The page tree represents the hierarchical page structure of your site and usually reflects your site’s navigational structure. You can browse, search, filter, and reorder your pages in the page tree.
• The List module lets you browse through each page or folder within your site and view all of the records that are stored within it.
• The Page module is where editors spend most of their time. Here you’ll create and manage pages, and work with page content.

• Add pages to the page tree to build your site. Drag and drop a page icon from the panel above the page tree panel to add it to the tree structure. Use different page types to represent other things like shortcuts to internal and external links, and folders that contain other items like pages or content elements.
• Configure access. Set the visibility of a page or restrict the display of frontend content to specific user groups.
• Set the SEO information for pages. Edit the page properties to configure the SEO title, add keywords and metadata, and flag whether the page should be indexed or not.

• TYPO3 uses a structured data approach. This means that content is added to pages in blocks called content elements. A content element is a container for a specific types of data, such as text, images, links, media, and more.
• TYPO3 comes preconfigured with common content elements used by most websites. Integrators and developers can configure custom content elements that are tailored to your project.
• Click the + Content button to add content to a page. This displays the Create new content element window, where you can choose from a variety of content options:
  • Typical page content like text, media, tables, and links.
  • Forms and form elements.
  • Menus and lists.
  • Special elements like dividers and records that let you reuse content.
  • Plugins provided by extensions.
• Use the rich text editor to work with your content, with familiar toolbar options for editing, formatting, and adding links. 

• Organize your documents, images, etc. through the file management module.
• Configure workspaces to support your editorial workflows and versioning.
• Define languages. Handle translation and publish content in multiple languages.