Members Have Selected Four Ideas to be Funded in Round Two 2026
The TYPO3 Association member poll for Round Two in 2026 budget ideas has finished. This time four winning ideas will be funded by the TYPO3 Association.
On 4 March 2026, we launched the community budget process for Round Two in 2026. The TYPO3 Association members were asked to vote on their favorites. As a result of 250 valid votes, the TYPO3 Association has granted budgets totalling €40,000 to four ideas.
Voting Results
Team Ideas
| Idea | Counts |
|---|---|
| Improve EXT:visual_editor for Accessibility, Multilingual Editing, and Everyday Editorial Workflows | 178 |
| Extbase Documentation Overhaul: Modern Best Practices for TYPO3 v14 | 145 |
| UX Concept for an Improved TYPO3 Layout Module | 140 |
Community Ideas
| Idea | Counts |
|---|---|
| TYPO3 Delivery API (Step one: content models) | 131 |
| Image Support for TYPO3 MCP Server - Enabling AI‑powered Media Management | 82 |
| TYPO3 specific LSP implementations: Fluid | 68 |
| TYPO3 Content Blocks Video Tutorials | 54 |
| Backend messaging and (simple) notifications | 51 |
| Native Web Push Notifications for TYPO3 (VAPID‑based) | 44 |
| EXT:space_config - Context-Driven TYPO3 Configuration Engine | 39 |
Summary of the Four Selected Ideas
Starting in Q4/2025, all funded ideas are seeking to align with the high-level objectives of the strategic goals for TYPO3 v14. The following four Ideas clearly demonstrate how they contribute to the long-term vision of TYPO3. Each summarized idea with a brief explanation of their strategic impact.
Implemented by Matthias Vogel and mentored by Rachel Foucard. (Budget: €10,000)
The plan is to evolve the Visual Editor extension into a production‑ready, day‑to‑day editing tool by boosting accessibility, adding side‑by‑side multilingual comparison, optionally introducing a focused full‑screen mode, and hardening overall stability and quality assurance. Delivering a more reliable, keyboard‑friendly, and easier‑to‑maintain editor will make the extension far more attractive for TYPO3 editorial teams, supporting smoother multilingual workflows and a cleaner editing experience.
Implemented by Anja Leichsenring and mentored by Lina Wolf (Budget: €10,000)
The plan is to completely overhaul the Extbase documentation on docs.typo3.org so that it aligns with TYPO3 v14 - delivering clear, opinionated best‑practice guidelines, a modern tutorial extension, migration instructions, and improved conceptual explanations. By providing an up‑to‑date, well‑structured knowledge base, the initiative will lower the entry barrier for new developers, speed up agency onboarding, and raise the overall quality and consistency of Extbase extensions, thereby reducing community support load and strengthening TYPO3’s ecosystem.
By Hannes Lau (Budget: €10,000)
The proposal introduces typed content models as the foundation for a future TYPO3 Delivery API. This API would allow structured, reliable access to CMS content for use in web apps, mobile apps, and AI integrations. It positions TYPO3 as a modern, flexible content hub for headless and hybrid use cases.
By Alexander Bernhardt (Budget: €10,000)
The idea is to develop a TYPO3 MCP server that allows AI tools to directly manage and optimize content within TYPO3. It already supports tasks like proofreading, SEO optimisation, and rewriting, and is in initial production use. Future improvements focus on adding advanced image handling, including metadata-based search and automated alt-text generation.
Next Steps
The winners will start to work on their projects on 1 May. They will be supported by the Business Control Committee (BCC). The people responsible for each idea project will report about their progress at typo3.org. If they succeed, they will be paid their allotted budget.
From the BCC’s point of view, all ideas would have been worth funding. Having a look at the voting results, we do see favorites, but the results in the main field are very close and a few more votes could have changed the overall results.
The results of the previous budgets are already published at typo3.org. In the following weeks results of all selected budgets will be published.
Timeline for Budget Ideas 2026
Round Two 2026
- 4 March 2026 — Announcement — Call for budget Second Round in 2026
- 31 March 2026 — Deadline for submission of budget ideas
- 8 April 2026 — Ideas will be published and voting process starts
- 22 April 2026 — Voting process ends
- End of April 2026 — Budgets granted
- 1 May 2026 — Work on idea projects start
- 31 August 2026 — Work on idea projects end
Round Three 2026
- 8 July 2026 — Announcement — Call for budget Third Round in 2026
- 31 July 2026 — Deadline for submission of budget ideas
- 5 August 2026 — Ideas will be published and voting process starts
- 26 August 2026 — Voting process ends
- End of August 2026 — Budgets granted
- 1 September 2026 — Work on idea projects start
- 30 November 2026 — Work on idea projects end
