Hi all,I've been using K2 to post simple news items for a friend of mine.However from my current point of view I have to code too much to let it look just the way het wants it.What do we want to show?As you see the date as following 14/10/2008, the title, an image next to the item. No read more or other stuff. Also he wants to show 3 items and use pagination for the older newsitems he wants to post.I already found a way to show the image on the right side (I only use ITEM).How do I change the date setting to show ik like in the example?Is there a way to change/style the pagination as seen in the example? (now left and right arrow with page 1 of 5) or something close to it.Thanks in advance.Br,Steve

For the date : Open components/com_k2/templates/default/item.php -> look for line 47

 

Change

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created , JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

 

To

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created , JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT')); ?>

 

this will give the date as 14/11/2008 - 9.50 <- which includes the time.

 

If you want to remove the time then you need to edit the language/en-GB.com_k2.ini -> look for line 78

 

Change :

K2_DATE_FORMAT="%d/%m/%Y - %H:%M"

 

To :

K2_DATE_FORMAT="%d/%m/%Y" <- remember to change back when you upgrade k2

 

As for editing the item.php file, it's better to use template overrides. See here

 

The pagination can be achieved with styling.

Hi Kannan,Thank you for your feedback.I changed the settings and everything works fine now.I still have a problem with the pagination. It's not clear for me where I can change the styling.In k2.css I see the code but it's not much to work with.Where can I find "<< last, next >>  for examle? Do you have any experience with this? Or do you have some example to point me in the right way?Best regards,Steve