Since this considered a hack, you need to keep backups of your edited files, and apply this patch every time you update K2.

I got the solution.

When we are showing items from more than 1 category K2 is not showing introText, to handle this issue Manoj has given the solution but I have modified it. Because Manoj Solution also limiting body text to introText when viewing Item.

Step 1. Open file item.php at location \components\com_k2\models\
Step 2. Find following line :
Step 3. Replace it with following :

After this hack K2 will show items from multiple categories with introText and when you will try to see single Item, K2 will show item with fullText.

This solution is simply calling an internal function in K2 for enforcing a word limit to any text field output. If you want to limit your introtext, look in the category settings. No need to touch any code.

Great Solution for the issue but I have question

I have implemented your solution but when I am trying to view any item...................item is only showing introText instead Full text. What is the solution for this?

Regards

This solution work very fine for me,
My question now, Why this did not inserted by K2 developers if its really important by default?

Thanks it also works with Joomla 3.0.3 Stable

P.S. OM SHANTI :)

OM SHANTI

This solution works well with K2 2.6.6 !! Thnx very much Manoj!

Hi there,

I've searched this forum high and low, but can't seem to find an exact answer to this, so hopefully someone can assist! As a preface, I have quite a few websites where this is the exact same problem, spanning several years of development, so it's not an isolated issue for me, and clearly I'm missing something.

Here's an example case problem:
- I set up a category on my website titled "Latest News".
- Under "Item view options in category listings" I set introtext to "Show" and Introtext word limit to a random number.
- I create a new Category Blog menu item for the "Latest News" category and save.

In theory, I know that clicking on the menu item should produce a blog with a word limit in effect, followed by a read more button. Instead, I get the entire contents of the content text.

I'm trying to make my sites super easy to use for clients, but this one blog issue has baffled me. I have attempted to try all the tricks shown in this post:
getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/13197-IntroText-words-limit-not-working-while-selecting
but no luck.

I do have custom K2 files in my template folder, and am fairly comfortable with editing them. Any advice would be appreciated deeply!

Thanks!

Hello !

Ouah ! that's working like a charm ! However do you know how to don't get the world limit when you're in the normal page ?

Coz now i also have to click on read more when I should be on the normal page.

Tks a lot !

It really works. Say "OM SHANTI" for Manoj.. :woohoo: :evil: :whistle: :silly: :sick:

I was looking for a similar solution to this, but wanted to limit the category intro text (rather than the item intro text).

The solution was:

Go to your relevant template folder (in this case we'll use default):

/components/com_k2/templates/default

and open category.php

find the following:

and replace with the following:

The 30 above is the word limit. Hope this helps

Thank you so much!!!!!!!

:woohoo:
Thank you Manoj Goel for a fix dearly needed in the K2 source! It is working great in Joomla! 2.5.8 with latest version of K2.

:) :) :) THANK YOU

Hi. Regarding the seperation of introtext and fulltext K2 has an option for that. You can find it under K2 Parameters. Regarding the introtext word limit, it is not supported on multiple categories but you may want to take a look at getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/13197-IntroText-words-limit-not-working-while-selecting

Manoj Goel YOU BEST ! thx all work like a clock :woohoo:
PS Joomla 1.5.2 + K2 2.5.1

:) Hey Guys here is the simple solution :)

Step 1. Open file item.php at location \components\com_k2\models\
Step 2. Find following line : Displaying 1 - 20 out of 33 results.

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