Neos Features

Neos comes with tons of amazing features and the Neos community has created even more. This list highlights the most important features Neos offers to editors, developers and site-owners.

If you are looking for a feature that is not mentioned here, take a look at the full list of Neos packages here.

Neos does not abstract the editing of content from your website. This way you do not need expensive training or time consuming tutorials on how to create and edit your content. In fact, you already know how to do this! You just click into the content within your website and start editing right away, it's that simple!

Direct ("Inline") Editing

With Neos, content is edited directly on the website. Editors get immediate visual feedback while editing content, no forms involved.

Text formatting

Texts are formatted directly on the website. Neos allows to define headlines, paragraphs, lists, tables and much more.

Link definition

Editors can easily insert links to other sub-pages ("documents"), email addresses or URLs.

Full Unicode Support

Neos supports the full Unicode character set, so editors can create content in any language and also use symbols and emoji-characters for a special touch.

Device preview

Different pre-configured screen sizes ("edit preview modes") allow editors to instantly see the content in the selected size and edit the content.

Standard content elements

Neos comes with a rich set of standard content elements like headlines, text, image, links or download lists.

neos/nodetypes

Publication timing

The publication- and expiry-date of pages ("documents") and even individual content elements can be defined by editors.

Site structure

Pages and sub-pages ("documents") are structured in a tree-like hierarchy which is also used to define menus and URLs.

Multi-column content

Neos allows editors to insert different multi-column sections directly into the content area. One-, two- or three-column areas can be combined freely.

Menu / Sitemap

The "Menu" content element allows editors to show a list of all pages of a section as links or create a complete sitemap.

Accessibility

While accessibilty depends on the individual implementation and the editors' care, Neos doesn't obstruct you in building accessible websites. It even has options and tools to assist proper accessibilty and leaves any freedom necessary to build highly accessible websites.

Content- / Teaser lists

The "Listable" package allows to create lists of content with pagination. This can be used for menus, teaser-lists, news-lists etc.

flowpack/listable

Video Content

Neos supports uploaded video files or external video services like Youtube or Vimeo.

jonnitto/prettyembedvideoplatforms jonnitto/plyr jonnitto/prettyembedvideo jonnitto/prettyembedvideostreaming

Google Maps

Google Maps is easily integrated as a content element.

ttree/map ttree/googlemapeditor

Slider / Carousel / Gallery

Various packages exist that allow editors to create sliders or image-carousels as content elements.

psmb/carousel

Diagrams / Charts

With the integration of Draw.io, diagrams and flowcharts can be added to your content.

sandstorm/mxgraph

Social Buttons

The "Shariff" library allows to integrate social buttons without harming the privacy of visitors.

networkteam/neos-shariff

Email obfuscation

Email addresses and links can be obfuscated to hamper external address-scraping.

networkteam/neos-mailobfuscator

Link to Contents

Editors can create links to content sections ("anchors") and browsers will scroll accordingly.

flownative/anchorlinks

Source Code View

Editors can embed snippets of source code with syntax highlighting easily.

cvette/neos-code-block punktde/codeview

Embed H5P Learning Content

The H5P standard provides a variety of interactive content types, such as Memory Games, Fill in the Blanks, Multiple Choice Questions and many more, which you can embed in Neos as well.

sandstorm/neosh5p

Glossary Management

A glossary page for difficult or specialized words with their definition. Existing glossary terms within your content pages are automatically linked to their descriptions on the glossary page.

sitegeist/nomenclator

Advanced link editing

Enhances the default link editor with multiple link options, e.g. to documents or assets which you can search and select in a modal.

sitegeist/archaeopteryx

Value Object Support in Inspector

Handle complex node type properties, like postal addresses, easily, with combined validation and a cleaner interface. Renders a preview button and edits values in an overlay using a React form component, supporting single and collection types.

sitegeist/inspectorgadget

Whether you want to publish your content in multiple languages or for multiple countries, Neos has you covered. You can easily create translations from scratch, or based on existing content in other languages.

Content variations ("dimensions")

"Content Dimensions" enable tailoring of content for varying audiences by language, region or other criteria like target groups.

Content Fallbacks

If content is not available in the selected content variation (such as a language) pre-defined fallback rules are applied (e.g. "American English" may fall back to "British English").

"XLIFF" Translations

Non-editorial texts are managed by using the xliff standard. This facilitates collaboration with external translation programs and services.

"Trados" Import & Export

"Trados" is a software for computer assisted translations. Neos integrates Trados via XML to collaborate with translation services.

flownative/neos-trados

Enforce a main language as basis for translation

Sometimes, a site has a main language which should be created first, before updating translations. This enforces or suggests that content is created in this main language first.

flowpack/restrictcreation

Automatic translations

Automatic translation of documents and contents using the DeepL API. Different sync modes are "once" for an initial translation or "sync" for automatic translation on every update in the default language

sitegeist/lostintranslation

Neos is designed for being adjusted to the needs of large and small projects, configuring what kind of content is needed and where they can be placed is key for a smooth user-experience.

Multiple Sites & Domains

A single Neos installation can host multiple websites with many different layouts, domains and users.

Various Backend Languages

The Neos interface is available in various languages. If you miss a language or translation, help translating Neos using the platform crowd.in.

Custom Content & Documents

The content elements of Neos are designed to be customized. Existing element types can be extended, new ones can be defined.

Content Structure & Constraints

Neos has customizable rules where each content-type can be placed. Only valid options are presented to editors when content elements are created or moved.

Categories / Taxonomies

Neos allows referencing pages to express relations or classifications. For more complex scenarios additional packages allow to define whole taxonomies.

ttree/taxonomy sitegeist/taxonomy

Content Templates

When new content is created "Content-Templates" allow to specify the initial state. This gives editors a comfortable starting point to build on.

flowpack/nodetemplates

Images and other files are as important as other content. With Neos, editors can organize those assets professionally. The extensibility of the media-module allows to integrate external libraries and storages.

Media Library

Neos has a media-library where editors upload and manage images and files. These files ("assets") can be searched, tagged and grouped in collections.

Replace Files

Editors can replace files in the Media module and all places where they are used get updated accordingly.

Cloud Storage Support

The "StorageInterface" integrates external storage without any difference for the editing workflow. Implementations exist for "Amazon S3" and "Google Cloud Storage".

flownative/google-cloudstorage flownative/aws-s3

Asset Sources

External Assets can be integrated via "AssetSourceInterface". This allows to connect DAM-Systems as well as Media Libraries.

"Asset Management" Integrations

Digital Asset Management Systems manage media libraries across whole companies. Neos already integrates PixxIO and Pimcore and more integrations are being developed.

flownative/neos-pixxio wwwision/neos-assetsource-pimcore

Photo-library Integrations

Various stock-photo services can be integrated into the media-library. Unsplash, Pexels, Shutterstock offer high quality stock photos with reasonable terms.

dl/assetsource-pexels cvette/neos-assetsource-shutterstock dl/assetsource-unsplash

MediaWiki Integration

Using "assetsource mediawiki", the whole MediaWiki library is available via the Neos media-library.

dl/assetsource-mediawiki

Cloud Storage Integration

With the Nextcloud asset source you gain direct access to all your files stored in your private cloud from the media module.

dl/assetsource-nextcloud

Asynchronous Image Generation

Cropping and scaling of images are deferred optionally until the image is actually requested by a browser to optimize performance.

Next-Gen Image Formats

Rendering of images in the WebP format as alternate source saves bandwidth and increases performance.

Responsive Images

With "responsive images" visitors always get the optimal image-sizes for their device for maximum quality and speed.

sitegeist/kaleidoscope onedrop/imagesrcset carbon/image

Forms are important for the interaction with visitors. Neos allows editors to use pre-configured forms or to define their own.

Form Framework

The Neos form framework handles forms with multiple pages, various fields, validation rules and also submit (finishing) actions.

neos/form neos/fusion-form

Form Builder

The form-builder allows editors to define new forms. This includes various field types but also validation rules and submit (finishing) actions.

neos/form-builder neos/form-yamlbuilder