Recently I added the RSS widget of t3blog to my blog. Now you may subscribe to this RSS feed (see on the left or on top in in your browser).

Because the configuration was a little tricky (as usual) I want share my template Typoscript setup settings with you:

plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2 {

 

 

  rss {

 

 

    generator=T3Blog

 

 

    feedTitle= Linux Typo3 and other Pains

 

 

    feedCopyright= Alexander Bigga

 

 

    feedManagingEditor= Alexander Bigga

 

 

    feedWebMaster= Alexander Bigga

 

 

    feedLink= "http://linux.bigga.de/blog/"

 

 

    feedDescription= [ daily hacking ]

 

 

    feedImage = "http://linux.bigga.de/typo3conf/ext/t3blog/icons/rss.png"

 

 

    postItemCount=5

 

 

    list.5 >

 

 

    list.10 >

 

 

    list.20 >

 

 

    list.40 >

 

 

  } 

 

 

}

 

 

xmlnews = PAGE

 

 

xmlnews {

 

 

  typeNum = 100

 

 

  config {

 

 

    disableAllHeaderCode = 1

 

 

    additionalHeaders = Content-type:text/xml

 

 

    linkVars = L

 

 

    no_cache = 1

 

 

         xhtml_cleaning = 0

 

 

         admPanel = 0

 

 

  }

 

 

  10 = USER

 

 

  10 {

 

 

    # Call the user function

 

 

    userFunc = tx_t3blog_pi1->main

 

 

    widget.rss < plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2.rss

 

 

    template = TEXT

 

 

    template.field = rss

 

 

  }

 

 

} 

 

 

page.headerData.500 = TEXT

 

 

page.headerData.500.value = <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" \

 

 

      title="RSS-Feed" href="http://linux.bigga.de/blog/rssType/2.0/rssContent/Posts/rss.xml" /> 

 

 

Yesterday I was very brave and upgraded my Typo3 on linux.bigga.de from 4.2.10 (stable) to 4.3 Beta2. I thought, it's a good idea to work already on a non-production system with the future typo3-release.

4.3 seems to be much bigger than 4.2. Archive size increases from 7,8M to 12M. This is for sure due to some backports from Forge (Typo3v5) to enable the MVC-concept in extensions already in Typo3v4.

After going step by step through the upgrade wizard, everything seemed to be fine. But then I tried to add a post to the t3blog and I failed adding any content.

I was trying a while and removed finally tinyrte and reinstalled htmlarea RTE. Now, I can add contents again but have to use the very slow (!) RTE again :-(

Other uses already noticed this "bug". I just added some comments to the bugtracker:

bugs.typo3.org

On linux.bigga.de/blog I've installed now some Typo3 blog and I will try to tell you from time to time my solutions and problems with Typo3 and other software monsters (especially Linux).

This blog uses the t3blog extension which is written by snowflake.ch. It took me some time to setup the Typo3 to use this extension. That's always the big task in Typo3: to install a new extension is quite simple but to get it working in the way _you_ want, may take hours. Afterwards everything is simple, of course.

Currently I am only using the bloglist, tagcloud and calendar widget of the t3blog. I can't stand social networking icons, rss-feeds and other garbage for the eyes. This is quite a nice feature of t3blog: either use all with a provided template-page or use only some widgets on any page you want.