Migrating, maintaining and evolving a university’s TYPO3 platform

The challenge

The university’s TYPO3 site needed a major version migration for security and performance, a better backend for editors, and a reliable, repeatable deployment process — then a partner who would keep it current and growing rather than leaving it to age.

The approach

• 1

  Migrated the platform from TYPO3 v10 to v12 and, most recently, on to v13 — keeping it current for security, performance and modern extension support.

• 2

  Added editor-focused backend improvements, including a front-end mask for creating and filtering continuing-education courses in a protected area (TYPO3, Fluid, PHP), covered by PHPUnit tests, plus GDPR-compliant Matomo analytics.

• 3

  Established a GitLab CI/CD pipeline that builds Docker images and deploys to the VPS with zero downtime — and continue to maintain the site and ship new features on an ongoing basis.

The result

A platform kept continuously current across major TYPO3 versions, an easier backend for editors, and a steady stream of new features — a trusted relationship running for over three years and counting.