A New Home for TYPO3: Relaunching the TYPO3 Websites

This is the final step in a communication alignment that has been in the works for almost a decade, involving a long list of TYPO3 staff and community contributors. Spearheaded by Mathias Bolt Lesniak and myself, we have worked on the structure to bring clarity and visibility to content across domains. Although some sites are still not completely finished, they will be in a matter of weeks.

You’ll find …

• Product information at typo3.com
• The community hub at typo3.community
• Project governance at typo3.org
• All project news at news.typo3.com

A relaunch can be a vanity project, a necessity, long overdue, and never really finished. All of these can be true at the same time. What is certain is that any relaunch should be used to improve the parts that no longer stand the test of time.

Any relaunch should be used to improve the parts that no longer stand the test of time. Legacy code, outdated connections to the file admin, old extensions, and abandoned content pile up over nearly a decade. The heavy lifting was handled by a dedicated developer team, under the supervision of CTO Frank Nägler.

Marvin Buchmann and Andreas Kienast on the company side, and by Thomas Löffler on the Association’s side, have brought the entire setup up to date and made editors’ lives easier through streamlined workflows and technical solutions. That meant re-evaluating past technical choices, removing what no longer served a purpose, and fixing, tweaking, and solving things for weeks on end.

TYPO3 was updated to the latest version and now runs on a new set of templates designed to support the revised content structure. With the assistance of the Server Team, a smooth transition was planned over the final stages of the project.

It wouldn’t be a real relaunch if we didn’t take the opportunity to freshen things up. With a new team member and UX expert on board, the long-planned relaunch (IYKYK) finally came to life.

Frontend developer Alexander Hahn created the concept for what you are looking at right now. With visuals by Art Director Markus Schwarz, the TYPO3 universe has been given a consistent look where the product takes center stage, without the use of stock photos. It enables editors to build attractive landing pages without involving frontend developers.

How we explain, promote, and present a product has changed over time. AI is reshaping how content is consumed — and how little time people are willing to spend on it. Clear logic, conciseness, and the wish to address recurring feedback gave us the confidence to restructure our content on typo3.com.

typo3.com is the product home, and the strongest selling points align with sought after features. Communications Manager Panos Semitekolos has created a content strategy to better define key industries and use cases. The content is backed by real data and a substantial selection of case studies from our partner agencies, curated by communications manager Kendall Litton.

The full content of typo3.com is now also available in German. Contributing editors Joeline Bersch, Luisa Sofie Faßbender, and Myrna Gönnemann translated and updated the content for TYPO3’s largest market. The TYPO3 Marketing Team prepared major feature presentations and handled key translations during dedicated sprints in the past two years. We are already in talks with community members about additional site versions and landing pages in other languages.

Another indispensable effort came from technical writer Tom Warwick, who reshaped the TYPO3 CMS section significantly. He also lent his hands to a marathon of internal linking across the new domains, all hosted within the same installation, making the overall structure more robust and future-proof.

typo3.org has undergone a fundamental change as well. All content related to community life and contributing to TYPO3 has moved to a new home: typo3.community.

The idea is simple:

• Project (typo3.org) focuses on governance, the TYPO3 Association, memberships, and the structure behind TYPO3.
• Community (typo3.community) shows how to participate, contribute, and get involved.

The policy-related pages that previously lived in different locations on typo3.org are being moved to a repository in official documentation. This keeps the project’s governance material under Git versioning in one consistent location.

Several pages have been rewritten for clarity, outdated information has been removed, and structures have been aligned across domains. More updates will follow over the next weeks as editors continue their review cycle.

The most outward-facing update is the single combined news hub. All articles from the TYPO3 ecosystem now live at news.typo3.com.

New categories that bring together budget reports, marketing articles, event recaps, technical insights, team sprints, and the like. We are one ecosystem and should appear as one to the outside as well.

This brings the Universe Bar to new use. Found at the top of every TYPO3 domain, it lets you switch between:

• TYPO3 product communication on typo3.com
• Community topics on typo3.community
• Project information on typo3.org
• News & Events on news.typo3.com

A small element with a big impact on orientation.

A relaunch shifts the furniture, but it also declutters down to what matters. With today’s update, TYPO3’s digital home is cleaner, clearer, and easier to navigate. Some corners are still being finished, but the direction is set.

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