Contao news

At least since Google has announced that the speed of a website is one of the criteria for its page rank, people care a lot about optimizing their web pages. This article will show you how to "tune" Contao to get a high page speed score.

The Contao theme manager does not only allow you to easily import and manage themes, but also lays the system open to attack due to the architecture of a theme. Therefore please read the following security advice regarding the import of a Contao theme.

Contao version 2.9.0 is available. The minor release includes the new theme manager, the Extension Repository 2.0, template groups, persistent front end logins, buttons to easily share articles on Facebook and Twitter, a major Safe Mode Hack performance improvement and a style sheet aggregator.

As the first stable release of Contao is scheduled for Independance Day, its time to give some insight on the second version of the Extension Repository that will be included in Contao 2.9.

Contao version 2.9.RC1 is available. The release candidate includes the new theme manager, the next version of the Extension Repository, template groups, persistent front end logins, buttons to easily share articles on Facebook and Twitter as well as plenty of other improvements, including a major Safe Mode Hack performance enhancement and an option to resume interrupted newsletter sending processes.

Since the name TYPOlight has repeatedly led to misunderstandings and false assumptions regarding the system's potential and range of functions, the TYPOlight project has changed its name to Contao Open Source CMS. Everything else remains the same.

On the occasion of a remote code execution vulnerability that has been discovered in the PDF export function, a consolidated security update for TYPOlight 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 has been released today. The vulnerability can only be exploited under certain circumstances and does not affect all installations. Nevertheless, it is highly recommended to update.

TYPOlight version 2.8.2 is available. The maintenance release updates TinyMCE, TCPDF and MooTools More to their latest versions and includes a couple of new callbacks and hooks. It also fixes a potential request forgery vulnerability in the back end, therefore it is recommended to update.

As of April 14, 2010 Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users. TYPOlight's "News Twitter" extension helps you to share your content with your followers more effectively.

Thomas Weitzel has actively supported TYPOlight ever since the early days of the project. After having answered a vast number of questions in the forums, he decided to share his TYPOlight and design knowledge in his book "Mit TYPOlight Websites erfolgreich gestalten".