30 Best Resources to Learn TYPO3 for Beginners

If you're a beginner looking to learn TYPO3, there are plenty of resources available to help you get started. In this blog, we've compiled a list of the 30 best resources for learning TYPO3, including tutorials, documentation, videos, and more. 

Whatever your role in website development is like a marketer, editor or developer, we are sure - This educational TYPO3 blog will help you to guide as TYPO3 beginners.

It’s a bit difficult to find out all TYPO3 resources at one place, so here we are trying to collect learn TYPO3 resources of TYPO3 CMS, community & more.

To be honest, the learning curve of TYPO3 is a bit complex as compared to other simple CMS. Because TYPO3 is capable to develop small to medium to large scale enterprise-level TYPO3 website.

Before a year, we wrote Beginners Guide to TYPO3 CMS, Community and Resources and Here, we would like to extend it with list more TYPO3 resources.

We hope this blog will help you to initiate your great journey to learn TYPO3, All the very best :)

Source: https://typo3.com/

Don’t get confused between TYPO3.org and TYPO3.com website. It’s very easy to understand.

TYPO3.org is the central location for the TYPO3 software project. You can download it, view the documentation, ask and answer questions in the forums. Moreover, TYPO3.org contains TYPO3 news, TYPO3 community, TYPO3 certification and much more.

TYPO3.com site is the professional website of TYPO3 GmbH (a 100% subsidiary of TYPO3 Association). The GmbH guarantees the further development of the TYPO3 range of products and services and supports the community with professional service.

Do you know?

TYPO3 is the world’s only vendor based support OpenSource CMS.

• You can download TYPO3 CMS from https://get.typo3.org/
• If you are composer-lover, Yeah TYPO3 also support composer https://get.typo3.org/misc/composer
• Checkout release notes at https://get.typo3.org/release-notes/10

For years, the TYPO3 community has been working very hard to improve all-over Documentation for TYPO3 CMS and Extensions. You will find all the necessary documentation at https://docs.typo3.org/

As a TYPO3 beginner, you can start with These TYPO3 Tutorials;

• For TYPO3 Backend Editor:

  https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/tutorial-editors/master/en-us/Index.html#start

• For TYPO3 Template Integrator:

  https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/tutorial-getting-started/master/en-us/Index.html#start

• For TYPO3 Extension Developer:

  https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/master/en-us/Index.html#start

Instead of manually setting up everything, As for beginners, we suggest trying free-trial TYPO3 demo from https://get.typo3.org/#try-online

We highly recommend to try "Click-n-launch" our Free TYPO3 Demo at TYPO3 SaaS solution (Software As A Service)

At TER, You can also find some TYPO3 template and themes by search eg.,

https://extensions.typo3.org/?L=0&id=1&tx_solr%5Bq%5D=template If you are looking for more free and premium TYPO3 templates, then T3Planet’s TYPO3 Templates

Source: https://docs.typo3.org/

One of the good ways to learn TYPO3 is to attending TYPO3 events. TYPO3 community has lovely people who always eager to share and gain knowledge. We suggest keeping your eyes on TYPO3 Events and News.

It’s always good to subscribe following channels to stay notified next releases of TYPO3.

• https://typo3.org/cms/release-news/
• http://lists.typo3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-announce
• https://typo3.slack.com/messages/C024TUMM5

LTS = 3 years Long-Term Support, Free TYPO3 release from TYPO3 Community

ELTS = 3 years Extended Long-Term Support, Pro TYPO3 release from TYPO3 Community

In that way, TYPO3 provides 6 years of support to each version, there is not any OpenSource CMS which can provide such long support.

From our decade of being in a close connection with the TYPO3 community, we always realized, that TYPO3 community has very supportive people.

Join now & stay connected with the following channels to get free support.

• https://typo3.slack.com/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typo3

Are you looking for a professional TYPO3 agency? TYPO3 GmbH has qualified and experienced TYPO3 agency partner, You can find and connect at- https://typo3.com/partners/professional-service-listing#/list

You can also find out TYPO3 selected professional freelancers at- https://typo3.com/partners/professional-service-listing/country//type/FREELANCER/services//certifications//extensionmaintainer/0?tx_psl_list%5Bfilter%5D%5Bsearch%5D=&cHash=09f4905e5794f2a580151c6c2cfb4f50#/list

One of the missing stuff in TYPO3 education, as there are very-less TYPO3 videos available. Although subscribe official Youtube channel and check out some old-videos which will help you to learn particular TYPO3 topic at- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpl8LY9Tr3PB26Kk2FYW_w

You can always raise your voice and opinion at TYPO3 community, There is a centralized forum at https://talk.typo3.org/

You can subscribe to the popular TYPO3 blog.

• Official TYPO3 Blogs
• TYPO3worx
• Use TYPO3
• TYPO3 Manual
• NITSAN
• Reelworx
• Daniel Siepmann
• Doc Core Insight
• Scripting Base
• Blogs by Torben Hansen
• Blogs by Richard Haeser
• Blogs by Sebastian Klein

Also, We are continuously writing TYPO3 blog, so we recommend to subscribe our TYPO3 Newsletter at https://t3planet.com/subscribe-typo3-newsletter/

There are some TYPO3 books which can help you to start to learn TYPO3 as follows:

• https://www.typo3book.com/
• TYPO3 E-book
• TYPO3 Certified Integrator
• TYPO3 Certified Developer
• TYPO3 Extbase

If you don’t have TYPO3 resource and would like to maintain your existing TYPO3 site, then you can consider TYPO3 GmbH’s Service Level Agreement- https://typo3.com/services/service-level-agreements

Do you want to collect and buy cool TYPO3 stuff like TYPO3 t-shirt, pen, diary, etc.? Visit this official TYPO3 shop at https://www.typo3-shop.com/ Also you can sponsor and donate to the TYPO3 association.

If you are interested to contribute something back to the great TYPO3 community, then we suggest you check out each section of community page at https://typo3.org/community You can find out Teams & Committees, How to contribute, etc.

TYPO3 is always serious about security, Keep your eyes on the latest security stuff at- https://typo3.org/help/security-advisories/

TYPO3 Association is pushing SkillDisplay to improve your knowledge through a step-by-step guide & test, You should try https://www.skilldisplay.eu/use-cases/use-case-typo3/

Do you want to know what TYPO3 version used in your particular TYPO3 website? Test-drive with this cool tool TYPO3 Statistics

You can get continues good updates from this corner of TYPO3.org call “This Month In TYPO3”.

• Take a look at archive posts https://typo3.org/project/news/this-month-in-typo3/
• You can submit your favorite TYPO3 thing from this form

To get up-to-date with TYPO3 CMS and Community, Subscribe now following the social-media platform.

Official TYPO3 Profile

• TYPO3 Official Twitter
• TYPO3 Association Twitter
• TYPO3 GmbH Facebook
• TYPO3.Press

Un-Official TYPO3 Groups

• TYPO3 Facebook Group
• TYPO3 Facebook German Langauge Group
• TYPO3 Users Group at LinkedIn
• TYPO3 Developer Group at LinkedIn
• TYPO3 Group at Xing

Source: https://www.flickr.com/people/typo3/

Last but not the least, Meet the First-Ever TYPO3 Marketplace https://t3planet.com/ You can find Free and Premium TYPO3 Templates as well as TYPO3 Extensions, TYPO3 SaaS solution with Free 90 day support, One-Month Moneyback Guarantee and more.

In the nearer future, we are planning to expand more services with TYPO3 Education, TYPO3 Jobs, etc. Join us now, Become TYPO3 Vendor or TYPO3 Buyer.

Hope you have enjoyed this educational blog post, we have tried to cover all important TYPO3 resources which can help you to start your career with TYPO3 CMS.

Do you have any questions related to TYPO3? Please feel free to write down to below comment box.

Have a Happy TYPO3 Learning :)