The TYPO3 Guidebook: Understand and Use TYPO3 CMS

© Felicity Brand, Heather McNamee, and Jeffrey A. McGuire 2021

F. Brand et al.The TYPO3 Guidebookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6525-3_8

8. Guide 4: Planning, Building, and Using Content Elements

Felicity Brand¹  , Heather McNamee² and Jeffrey A. McGuire³

(1)

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

(2)

Northern Ireland, UK

(3)

Olpe, Germany

 

This guide builds on the site created in Guide 2 and the extension added in Guide 3. It shows you how to create a custom content element.

TYPO3 comes with some content types that you can use right away, like text and images, but you can also build content types that are exactly suited to your site’s particular needs.

A custom content element could be a “quote” element if you plan to build a website around quotes from celebrities ...