@Diego I believe that feature will be introduced in K2 2.7
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/44083-what-k2-tags-limitations#149004

Nice...

For K2 Tools display, would be nice if we can have a dropdown select for tag ;)

Thank you very much for the reply. I also noted that somebody had created a Multiple Categories for K2 add on. I wonder how that would work? although, my preference is to use as add ons as little as possible. That said, the reviews are all glowing for that product. I really would prefer to put my items into multiple categories and also use tags. :-)

Actually, I see that there are a few K2 Multiple categories options so I am anxious to hear from anybody that has used them. :-)

In case anyone was wondering the functionality differences between #JoomlaK2 Tags vs. Categories, I have created a little list:

Ordering - Categories: Yes | Tags: No
Nesting - Categories: Yes | Tags: No
Description & Image - Categories: Yes | Tags: No
List Display Settings - Categories: Category Specific | Tags: Global

Feel free to comment if you have any additional thoughts or suggestions.

@Lefteris - so it looks like this would be another limitation of tags vs. additional categories.

It seems a bit odd, as the "order" parameter is present as on option.

Is this a feature that can be accomplished (plugin, template override, future K2 releases)?

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no counter for tags in K2.

@Sié

Please do not post duplicate messages or you will get banned from the forum.

K2 tags are searchable only when the Joomla! search is used. Just go to the Search - K2 plugin and set it up to search tags. Note that you will have to use mod_search and not mod_k2_tools for that.

K2 will not add the image meta tag since the item does not have an image. This means that you should be able to use third-party plugins with no issues. However, this is just an assessment, we have not tested any third party plugins for that with K2.

Sorry, but I have another problem with the search. The search results do not include tags. How to include an item in the search results by searching one of its tags ?

Sorry, but I have another problem with the search. The search results do not include tags. How to include an item in the search results by searching one of its tags ?

How to display tags from the counter module to the tag: material K2

@Joe Campbell

There is an option in K2 parameters which allows you to select the desired ordering. You can also create a menu link to a tag if you want to override that global option.

@Joe Campbell

This ordering is applied when the list contains only featured items. Unfortunately since there is no option to do that in K2 tags menu it will not work.

Hi,

There is an option in the K2 Tools tag cloud module named " Filter tags from one or more categories" . if you set the " Apply tag category filter recursively to all sub-categories" to "Yes" then it will look into subcategories.

Hi,

No, unfortunately not. And hacking an extension is never a good idea. Have you tried to use tags for locations? You can also use the "Additional Categories for K2" plugin which allows you to assign an item to multiple categories.

There are differences between tags and categories:

1. Categories can be nested, tags not.
2. Categories can have images and content.
3. Each category can have it's own settings for displaying content. Tags have global options for that.

Thanks guys - hey @Lefteris, so with that addition coming, are there any other limitations of using tags vs additional categories in K2 v3?

Just to make things more clear. K2 2.7.0 will include a tag filter in the K2 content module. The same filter will be included in K2 v3 also.

The only limitation I can see in your scenario is related to the K2 Content Module which does not support fetching K2 Items by tag (yet).

I am currently utilizing Additional Categories for K2 and was wondering with the new feature in K2 v3 that offers the use of extra fields for tags, I was wondering what limitations would I potentially experience with using K2 Tags instead of Additional Categories?

Note: I use extra fields for virtually everything (item & list images, metadata, social tags, etc.)

I plan on using two K2 tags two ways:

1) Explicit tags to be used as "sub-categories" by way of menu links (/blog/phones)
2) General tags for in-content links to topics, brands, etc. (/tags/iphone)