After loosing a deal because the other candidate had WordPress with the needed stuff almost done while for TYPO3 some stuff needed to be developed, I was kinda in shock.

How could it be? TYPO3 loosing from WordPress which I stopped using fervently after discovering the power of TYPO3… I felt abandoned, a little betrayed actually…

And now it happens to me again. Why? Yesterday I saw a movie on youtube about a guy installing a WordPress site, with a unique theme and… a shop in less than 5 minutes. He even had a product in and added a payment solution in that time… And now… Now I just upgraded to the newest version of WordPress fully automatically…

I think I need to start looking if Users/Permissions/Roles and localization have been improved as dramatically as this…

Should I consider trading TYPO3 for WP?

I have come to love the TYPO3 way of things, the power, the community, the friends in freelance collegeaus that I met… So should I? Or should I not?

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Sometimes I am frustrated with TYPO3. Small things like a blog which are set up so easily using for example WordPress, can take a hell of a time with TYPO3. TimTab in my case.

I couldn’t find a decent way of having linkable tags in my single posts, so I came up with my own: newstags.

It takes the keywords, transforms them into tags that are (optional) linkable to a page with the search plugin for news.

For now: just install, include static templates, and change the constant to the pid where the search plugin is located. Next add the plugin under the tt_news element where you get your single view with and your tags are there.

Make sure you restrict the search plugin from tt_news to only search in keywords. You can achieve this by setting the following in TS Setup:

plugin.tt_news.searchFieldList = keywords

It should be in TER soon, if you want it now, leave a comment.

Update: The extension is now available in TER right here.

If you were frustrated as I was, and this extension is welcome to you, please consider donating a considerable (just kidding) amount of money via paypal.

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Recently I ran into Goldmine, a book and set of video’s that help you to create blogs that make money online using WordPress. I am currently going over this to see how I can apply these principles to my favorite CMS, TYPO3.

Do you have any experience with Goldmine? Let me know! I’m eager to hear your stories!

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Mmm.. just upgraded wordpress to version 2.5. I must say I am impressed. It is as if you can’t do it wrong! 

Once you just overwritten every possible file (…) I went to check my plugins page and saw it is possible to have it automatically install your updates (if available)… Neat.

Writing this: TYPO3 offers this for a long time already! The way WP set up it’s backend skin makes it look all smooth and nice.

If you find a bug on this site after this upgrade… let me know!

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