Get started as a TYPO3 Site Owner or Project Manager

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

TYPO3 site owners and project managers need a detailed understanding of the CMS’s capabilities and over-arching knowledge of the surrounding ecosystem — what is Core functionality and how to extend it.

• Understand TYPO3 as a CMS and an open-source ecosystem
• Know how to plan and manage TYPO3-based website projects
• Manage multi-disciplinary projects on time and within budget
• Understand the possibilities of the TYPO3 Core and the ways to extend it.
• Fluency in TYPO3 concepts and terminology

TYPO3 CMS 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.

As a site owner or project manager, you know TYPO3’s professional feature set and how your team can harness its power to  connect with your customers and create rich digital experiences.

• Massively Multisite and Multilingual — Manage any number of websites with a single installation, and create and maintain a multitude of languages.
• Digital Marketing Enabled — Integrate with your marketing stack, execute your SEO strategy, and manage and measure your campaigns.
• Open Extensible Customizable — Make TYPO3 work for you. Open architecture means you can add functionality as you scale.
• Professional Open Source — Enjoy software from an open community with a resilient organizational structure and enterprise-level vendor support.
• Universal Frontend User Experience — Create a digital experience that is responsive, accessible, and consistent across platforms.
• Secure Performant Scalable — Be confident that your digital solution is fast, compliant, and secure.
• Smart Content Management — Plan, author, and deliver content, manage files, configure workflows, and more.

Find out how TYPO3 suits your project using these comparisons with other popular products in the CMS landscape.

TYPO3 is backed by a vibrant professional community and commercial ecosystem.

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

Decision-makers choose TYPO3 because it is an enterprise-level CMS and a solid technical foundation to build on.

• Security is our top priority. The TYPO3 Security team is known for its constant vigilance and rapid incident response.
• Powerful access control. Configure user groups and define levels of access with features like MFA, IP detection, and user directories.
• User privacy. Schedule data for deletion and automate processes securing sensitive data.
• Global and local control over brand reputation. Enforce global guidelines while empowering editors to respond to local needs.
• Centralized control over global access and compliance. Configure user rights to content and assets. Stay compliant with regulations across all your websites.
• Define fine-grained user rights to enable teams to focus on what they do best. Let marketing do marketing and IT do IT.
• Campaign management. Launch compelling marketing campaigns with a technology that supports content re-use and rapid global changes.
• Open API for seamless integrations. TYPO3 is your content hub that plays nicely with PIMs, ERPs, and CRMs with high-quality, performant APIs.

• Make sure you meet the system requirements, and that you have the services and packages needed to run TYPO3.
• Get familiar with the TYPO3 Core and build an understanding of what the core functionality can accomplish.
• Gather information about what functionality your site project requires.
• Explore extensions to understand what they are, and how they can help you build out the functionality of your site.
  • Browse community-contributed extensions in the TYPO3 Extension Repository
  • Explore the News extension. This is a very popular, best practice extension for chronological and categorized content.
• Look at integrations with third-party systems as an alternative to building custom functionality in TYPO3.
  • Use extensions to integrate TYPO3 with your existing stack, including the tools you use for product information management (PIM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), MarTech tools, and analytics.
  • Add on-site search functionality with engines like Solr and Elasticsearch.

• Performance
  • Caching and content delivery networks (CDN).
  • Check your website statistics with tools like PageSpeed Insights.
• Security
  • TYPO3 Security Guidelines.
  • Be aware of the Extension Security Policy and securing third-party code.
  • Know the process for reporting a security vulnerability in TYPO3.
  • Understand how to deal with compromised websites.
  • Use TYPO3’s Multi-Factor Authentication feature.
  • Understand GDPR and other privacy legislation and the business value inherent in a secure website.
• Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Understand the impact on SEO when upgrading or migrating websites.
• Accessibility
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
  • Know where and how you can get your website checked using online tools.

Owning and maintaining a state-of-the-art website involves regular evaluation and due diligence. Here’s some topics to consider:

• Know your legal rights and obligations
  • GNU Public License – What’s allowed and what isn’t?
  • Copyright and Trademarks
• Define the maintenance and service level agreements (SLA) for your site.
  • TYPO3 Roadmap and Releases
  • Extended Long Term Support (ELTS)
• Understand why upgrades are necessary, and how to upgrade most efficiently.
  • Update or ELTS?
• Learn different approaches to troubleshooting.
  • Error and exception handling
  • Help and support