Just remember to restore your changes whenever K2 is updated ;)

Very useful. Thanks!

You're welcome :)

That's what I was thinking for.
Great!

OG meta tags will have a switch in the upcoming v2.8.5 and in v3.0.0 will be removed and become a plugin.

Hello everybody!

With version 2.8.0 I commented the whole Set Facebook meta data block in the following files in order to disable K2 OG tags:

/components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php
/components/com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php
/components/com_k2/views/latest/view.html.php

It seems to work.

Nice one :)

You may not need all the K2 Item Edit page tabs for your site. Or perhaps you want to make the UX easier for a client.

All you need to do is add a little CSS...

Find this File:
/media/k2/assets/css/k2.css

Add this Code:

note: below is a list of EVERY tab - before adding the code, REMOVE the tabs you want to displayed

#tabExtraFields,
#tabContent,
#tabImage,
#tabImageGallery,
#tabVideo,
#tabAttachments
{display: none !important;}

For me, I do not use the Image Gallery, Video and Attachments tabs:

#tabImageGallery,
#tabVideo,
#tabAttachments
{display: none !important;}



I hope you found this tip useful - Later K2'ers :)

Hi Simon,

Here's a K2 Power Tip I posted on how to stop K2 from procsessing your images:
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/41036-k2-power-tip-stop-k2-from-processing-images-k2-hack

I hope this helps,

Joe Campbell

Nice review Kelsey:
extensions.joomla.org/extension/dsc-device-specific-content#rev-100855

Thanks Joe!

Review added :)

Awesome - glad I was able to assist.
If you have the time - write a review on the JED.

Wishing you a great week :)

Thanks Joe - I've replaced UALayout with DSC throughout the site and it's worked perfectly to a) replace UALayout and b) resolve the issue I was experiencing.

Hi @KelseyBrookes,

Try using Device Specific Content (DSC) by Viktor Vogel. It can be used within your content (articles & modules), your template, and third-party extensions (via API).

joomla-extensions.kubik-rubik.de/dsc-device-specific-content

I hope this helps,

Joe Campbell

So... interesting little side-effect of using UALayout.

Krikor might recall I added an issue to Github where using SIGPro was causing the item's introtext to disappear, and the gallery appear in its place.

We've tracked this down to the use of the UALayout plugin.

While UALayout is not directly called on the area affected, it is loaded on the page - and when enabled causes the above issue if SIGPro is installed.

We're having that issue on our the real estate site I was showcasing last week.

I'm adding an issue to UA Layout's github (and resolving the one on K2), but I thought it worth noting here also.

Hello,

Please read this post:
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/41888-k2-power-tip-change-extra-field-date-format-k2-hack

or this:
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/36900-edit-extra-field-date-format-in-specific-template

Yes, it makes maintenance much easier.

WOW - I never realized this...

You can also decide which elements your sub-templates have in common, whether this is the category (category.php), tag (tag.php), user (user.php) or item page (item.php) with the default and include only the different file(s) in your sub-template.

Actually Yiota wrote a nice similar blog post about it a while back
I'm sure you've read it but it'll post it anyway :)

www.joomlaworks.net/blog/item/194-k2-inheritance-sub-templating

Using K2 overrides can do wonders for website creation, but prove challenging when have many overrides (each with many elements).

To reduce the number of override files you can use PHP includes.

For example, I have a Quotes section for which I display the list page in a Pinterst-like manner. It's the only section of my website that is like that. But the item page is the same as every other section. So in this case, I use a PHP include to render the item.php file housed in my primary override.

Best of all, you can use this method for each and every override file (category.php, category_item.php, tag.php, etc.)

Here's the code, simply change the areas denoted in red:

<?php include($_SERVER.'/templates/TEMPLATE-NAME/html/com_k2/OVERRIDE-FOLDER/item.php'); ?>

Happy K2 Coding :)