First Blog Post

The online guide

The manual setup is quite sufficient to easily integrate a blog into your existing site. The automated setup wizard, however, creates a standalone version as a new website.

The implementation

First I wanted to integrate the blog into my site, I started with the manual setup. This was really quite easy, the few entries were done quickly.

The problems

However, when I was through this completely, nothing worked as it should be. The tags that I created were not selectable, nor were the authors. In addition, sometimes the footer appeared on created posts and sometimes it didn't.

When I fixed the first problems, the comments stopped working.

The solution

I created a standalone version using the wizard. Then I moved the sub-elements to a new blog element. I equipped this with the post list and a sidebar. I also created an extension tempalte here, where the "Blog Integration" include had to be loaded. I also took into account the other points of the manual setup. Now tags and authors were available.

I replaced the footer with the meta variant of the bootstrap package. Then only "page.theme.navigation.style = default" had to be set so that the header was readable and the first problems were fixed.

Now I noticed, however, that the comments were gone. I had changed too much in the settings. I had to remove the "Clear" from "Setup" and "Constants" and remove all other includes, after this the comments worked again.

My conclusion

If you don't get into Typo3 that deeply, you can still make a blog acceptable. Why the footer is not inherited in such a way that it also appears on the generated pages is a mystery to me.

But i don't want that there is a wrong impression here, you can spend a few hours with it, without a good knowledge of Typo3.