hi, sorry for my english, i'm italian.
i would know if in k2 v2 is possible menù like "Default (Frontpage) Layout"...when i go to create a new menù i can't see the option "Default (Frontpage) Layout" but there is in the precedent version!

i would see the home page with categories!!

EDIT:
in others words...
from the forum:
1. I can't recreate initial K2 frontpage, the beautiful way of displaying categories in multiple categories from first version of K2. Maybe because i don't have this option in menu?

K2

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Item Layout
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Item Layout
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Item Listing Layout
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Categories - this is what i use- show only items, no categories
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Tag
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User Page (blog)

I don't want items in frontpage, just categories i choose to display. How can i do that?

i can't find the option, for me it's impossible see the visual like in the old version...

i want "Default (Frontpage) Layout"!!! :(

I have posted already a guide on how to make the frontpage work as you want will ber. I know you want a frontpage setting but you can make it do what you want by following the info I posted (in the v2 thread in announcements)

Go to: www.bikechatter.co.uk/articles.html and you will see the categories, the only difference is that I enabled the ' show subcategory items' setting in the category settings

leigh

The option is in Components > K2 > Enter a category > Category view options > Show also child's categories items.

The trick seems to be that you have to create a top-level K2 category (let's call it "Home"), and set the above option for that category. Now, go into all the other top-level categories you want included on the home page, and change the Parent from Top to Home.

For the menu button, set it for just the Home category, not all categories. Now it will generate the second-level categories (which were formerly top-level) without the items.

If support is added for assigning multiple categories, we could actually generate several different "Home" pages this way. Now that would be sweet.

silversas, have you figured out any way to control urls with V2? I am having a nightmare of a time getting modules placed because none of the urls are consistant - have alook at the difference between:

www.bikechatter.co.uk/articles.html and

www.bikechatter.co.uk/bike-models.html

Both were set up the same way and yet they develop 2 completely different URL paths, the same goes if you check the URL's coming from the articles on the homepage... I am very VERY confused about how the hell to control my site at the moment..

**edited - forget the difference between the /articles and /bike-index links they seem to have sorted after a cache clean, the frontpage article links are still problematic though.

leigh :D

Not to worry, the answer to all my prayers has occured and its a pretty obvious answer at that - DOH!

To create the home menu create a category called home, main or whatever you want, then setup the rest of the cats under that. works perfectly now! Very happy with how that turned out - though simple it really is not that easy to do without messing though - I guess this is where docs will help.

leigh :D

I'm getting 404'd on that second link. Not sure in any case... I'm adding modules based on Menu Assignments rather than to individual articles, so far.

Ha... Well, Leigh, I have learned that a) I type slowly, and b) you are clearly a ninja. Glad it worked out. :)

im trying to figure out this same problem. You can always download the older version... but it doesn't make sense. There has to be a way.

bieeeen! thank you. I wil try this out.

:D Glad I could FINALLY be of some help :)

leigh

silversas said:The option is in Components > K2 > Enter a category > Category view options > Show also child's categories items. The trick seems to be that you have to create a top-level K2 category (let's call it "Home"), and set the above option for that category. Now, go into all the other top-level categories you want included on the home page, and change the Parent from Top to Home.

For the menu button, set it for just the Home category, not all categories. Now it will generate the second-level categories (which were formerly top-level) without the items.

If support is added for assigning multiple categories, we could actually generate several different "Home" pages this way. Now that would be sweet.


Hello there

I've installed K2 and I'm trying to figure out how to build a K2 home page but can't find any answer.
I've whatched the germany presentation video and read this thread also...

Here you said:The option is in Components > K2 > Enter a category > Category view options > Show also child's categories items.
But after research I don't have such option available with latest K2 version for the category display and finaly can't get any front page at all to display...

Can someone please give me a hint as there no existing documentation to help beginners ??

Thanks ;)

This thread got me very close to what I want to do. I have my top-level category and can now see all my sub-categories on the front page.
THE QUESTION: How do I show the sub-category images, not just names?