Microtemplate

TYPO3 CMS template extension for one page sites with light box like sub pages.

• Demo
• Microtemplate in TYPO3 Now Package

Be aware...

Quite likely most major versions introduce breaking changes, without describing every single one. This is a place for us to try out and learn about new ways of doing things. Always trying to improve the speed, usability and SEO.

System requirements

• TYPO3
• fluid_styled_content
• containeritems

Features

• Can be installed in multi domain setup or just for a sub page
• Configurable color schemes
• Automatic menu of section titles or first level of sub pages
• Automatic language menu
• Social links in menu
• Content columns & accordions
• Section background (colour, image with effects, video)
• Section scroll in effect
• Dark mode support
• GDPR friendly

Install

• composer req t3brightside/microtemplate or from TYPO3 extension repository microtemplate or try this composer file
• Include static templates in that order: fluid_styled_content, advancedpagetitle, personnel, pagelist, youtubevideo, etc, containeritems section, microtemplate scripts, microtemplate
• Use TypoScript constant editor for customisation
• Set microtemplate.customCss constant copy the original file if desired and set your logo and .home CSS according your needs
• Edit home page to set 'Resources -> Include Page TSConfig -> Microtemplate – Main' and save
• Edit home page to set 'Appearance -> Page layout -> Backend layout (this page only) -> Home' and 'Appearance -> Page layout (subpages of this page) -> Backend layout -> Sub'
• Demo content and recommended packages: microstart

Editors

• To exclude content section from main menu uncheck 'Appearance -> Show in Section Menus' in section settings.

Admins

• To alter back end settings see: Configuration/TypoScript/PageTS/setup.ts

Recommended

These extensions are preconfigured and tested in Microtemplate

• pagelist – Page teasers, articles, events etc
• personnel – Contact persons information with vCard support
• gallerycontent – Gallery with preset crop ratios
• youtubevideo – YouTube videos with cover images and cover text
• favicon – Favicon extension
• advancedtitle – Page title prefix and suffix

Clean up the BE editing

• beux - Experiment to clean up back end editing for Microtemplate

To speed things up

• staticfilecache - Write pages into HTML files to save chunk of time

Sources

• GitHub
• Packagist
• TER

Development and maintenance

Brightside OÜ – TYPO3 development and hosting specialised web agency