I have categorie pages for my K2 items each with an image, and a 30 word maximum intro text before the read more button. How can I add 'alt' tags to the 'read more' buttons?
For example on this page the read more buttons have no alt tags and I would like to add descriptive alt tags for SEO.
Hi Krikor.. First I was creating my template based on Gavern FW (Gavick). Later it felt like a bloat since it has too many css, scripts and other files that I dont need so I scratched that and I ended up completely writing my own template old school style with pure html/css/php without using any FW. Now my 2.6.8 k2 sub-templates are designed (css) and re-structured (html) to match my site theme. I only override 3 files now: category.php, category_item.php and item.php. I have created 3 different sub-templates (1 for each section in my site).
From what you are saying, it does seem like k2 templating has gone simpler. When I briefly had a look in github, I noticed that category_item.php is not there (probably merged with category.php) which is good. From one of your previous post I understand that the version 3 has backward compatibility so I am guessing my 2.6.8 template should work without much changes or overrides. The questions I still have in mind is:
1) Are there any api changes? For instance, I use a lot of php custom codes that fetches k2 extra fields like $this->item->extraFields->XYZ->value, etc.. and use the various k2 php codes like fetching hits, rating counts etc.. for schemas and other things. Have there been any changes to this? Would all of these still work in version 3 or do I need to reverify and check them for V3?
2) Have the css and html classes / IDs changed? When I created css overrides for k2 templates, I used the same css classes used in K2 such as catItemImageBlock, catItemImage, etc.. If the tags have been changed, removed or template layout changed, then I need to re-do them. How big of a change in there in the default html and css that was used in 2.6.8 to version 3? (I am mainly interested to know for category.php and item.php pages).
3) Lastly, do you have a list of code changes done to the k2 templates from 2.6.8 to V3? It will be useful if there is a documentation on code changes on templates if you have one already. If not I need to use Winmerge which can get annoying sometimes.
I am hoping to have some spare time in 2-3 of weeks once I finalize everything else on my site and I am thinking of exploring the version 3 then. Hopefully I will have a better idea on what I can expect by then.
Are your templates based on a framework like Gantry or T3? If yes you might have to do some testing, otherwise the frontend changes won't be so many.
It will even be easier. I would propose that you start one on your free time just to get the hang of it. The large difference is that you do not have to edit seperate files for the category/ user/ tag/ generic item. You only have to edit one file.
Buongiorno, ho acquistato un template per Joomla 3 con installato k2. Vorrei inserire la possibilità di visualizzare gli articoli in base al tag come in questo sito ideascale.it/scale-su-misura.html (in base al tipo di scala selezionato si visualizzano gli articoli corrispondenti); ho così copiato da un altro sito il seguente codice e inserito nel mio template:
Hi, I buy a template for joomla 3 with k2, I like in my page have an item sorting by the tag, so I copy, from another site, this code for insert the sort:
Hey Krikor, thanks for the quick reply. i made a discovery a few seconds ago. it comes from the size of the picture.
The pic is 1mb (max allowed on server is 24 mb) but 3000px x 1600.
the max_execution_time is at 90. can not be.
so what could force the server force to give error 500 back before? any idea?
here my parameters:
Directive Local Value Master Value allow_call_time_pass_reference On On allow_url_fopen Off Off allow_url_include Off Off always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off arg_separator.input & & arg_separator.output & & asp_tags Off Off auto_append_file no value no value auto_globals_jit On On auto_prepend_file no value no value browscap no value no value default_charset iso-8859-1 iso-8859-1 default_mimetype text/html text/html define_syslog_variables Off Off disable_classes no value no value disable_functions dl , passthru , pcntl_exec , pfsockopen , popen , posix_kill , posix_mkfifo , posix_setuid ,eproc_c, pr , proc_open , proc_terminate , system , leak , posix_setpgid , posix_setsid , proc_get_status , proc_nice , show_source , escapeshellcmd, pcntl_fork, pcntl_wait, pcntl_alarm, ini_restore, shell_exec, proc_close, leak dl , passthru , pcntl_exec , pfsockopen , popen , posix_kill , posix_mkfifo , posix_setuid ,eproc_c, pr , proc_open , proc_terminate , system , leak , posix_setpgid , posix_setsid , proc_get_status , proc_nice , show_source , escapeshellcmd, pcntl_fork, pcntl_wait, pcntl_alarm, ini_restore, shell_exec, proc_close, leak display_errors Off Off display_startup_errors Off Off doc_root no value no value docref_ext no value no value docref_root no value no value enable_dl Off Off error_append_string no value no value error_log no value no value error_prepend_string no value no value error_reporting 30719 30711 exit_on_timeout Off Off expose_php On On
file_uploads On On highlight.bg #FFFFFF #FFFFFF highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000 highlight.default #0000BB #0000BB highlight.html #000000 #000000 highlight.keyword #007700 #007700 highlight.string #DD0000 #DD0000 html_errors Off Off ignore_repeated_errors Off Off ignore_repeated_source Off Off ignore_user_abort Off Off implicit_flush Off Off
log_errors Off Off log_errors_max_len 1024 1024 magic_quotes_gpc Off Off magic_quotes_runtime Off Off magic_quotes_sybase Off Off mail.add_x_header On On mail.force_extra_parameters no value no value mail.log no value no value max_execution_time 90 90 max_file_uploads 20 20 max_input_nesting_level 64 64 max_input_time 60 60 max_input_vars 1000 1000 memory_limit 128M 128M
output_buffering 4096 4096 output_handler no value no value post_max_size 24M 24M precision 14 14 realpath_cache_size 16K 16K realpath_cache_ttl 120 120 register_argc_argv Off Off register_globals Off Off register_long_arrays Off Off report_memleaks On On report_zend_debug On On request_order GP GP safe_mode Off Off safe_mode_exec_dir no value no value safe_mode_gid Off Off safe_mode_include_dir no value no value sendmail_from no value no value sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i serialize_precision 100 100 short_open_tag On On SMTP localhost localhost smtp_port 25 25 sql.safe_mode Off Off track_errors Off Off unserialize_callback_func no value no value upload_max_filesize 24M 24M user_dir no value no value user_ini.cache_ttl 300 300 user_ini.filename .user.ini .user.ini variables_order GPCS GPCS xmlrpc_error_number 0 0 xmlrpc_errors Off Off y2k_compliance On On zend.enable_gc On
Okay. I got some help from a friend. Here's how far it got us (if anyone should wonder).
In order to have the extra fields displayed independently, you need to split them up. So replace the "foreach ..." line in you item.php with this:
<!-- START: Call to prepare extra fields --> <?php //convertArray to use ids as key $extrafields = array(); foreach($this->item->extra_fields as $item) { $extrafields[$item->id] = $item->value; } ?> <!-- END: Call to prepare extra fields -->
Then, to call the extra field you need in, do this:
Now here comes the fun part. I wanted to create a 1-6 stars rating system for my client who is a music journalist. He should be able to select a rating from a dropdown, and this value should be displayed as stars in the item view.
I decided to use the css and sprite based article rating system which comes with K2 - then I could "recycle" the nice star images and the css already created.
If it's not a cached result within Facebook from an older implementation of your site, then some plugin may be messing with your site's meta tags. Check the K2 blog and try sharing any item on FB. You'll see the image is properly preserved and displayed. ;)
Go into K2's parameters and under the first tab, locate the value "Item count for tag listings" and set it to some high value to control the display of how many items are visible by default in tag pages.
Notice your site's <body> tag. In it, you'll see CSS classes specified based on various parameters. This comes from your template. Use these classes to separate your background styling.
E.g. for that specific page, you would add in your CSS file: body.menu-soggiorni-cefalonia { background: somecolorhere; }
and this would target only this specific page. I hope you get the picture :)
The tag view uses the "generic" size referenced by default in K2's parameters, under the Images tab in "Item generic image width (in px). Used in user pages as well as tag, search & date listings." Set the right pixels there and K2 will make sure to resize images properly for this view. If you had this setting tweaked to a small value, then uploaded your K2 items and then you changed the value back to a larger dimension, then K2 will only "HTML resize" the images. To fix this, you need to re-upload your images.
Krikor Boghossian wrote: You can use the image's caption and credit fields to display the copyright and photographer.
Hi Krikor
Thanks I have already done that but this does not do the same thing. IPTC tags (or metadata) is digital information that is embedded in the image itself. It contains far more information than copyright information such as where it was taken, when, photographers full details, technical information of the camera, keywords and a description plus much much more. When someone opens this image in software such as Photoshop the user will immediately see a (c) symbol in the file name and by viewing info will then be able to all related metadata. This can be very useful to editors who may be using the images as comps before asking for the license to use it.
It is easy to take images from a website using K2 and without any of this metadata the the person downloading will not have this information saved along with the image. Once they forward it to someone else (even though this in itself is arguably illegal) that new recipient then has an image with no idea of it's origin or copyright status.
Metadata in images is now a standard industry practice, wildly accepted and yet K2 strips it out. If there is no way to prevent this then K2 is not for me or any other creative person not wishing there images to be stolen, or at least to give people the excuse to say they had no idea they were copyrighted etc etc.
The only other solution, which is not very pretty, is to watermark them all, before uploading so that K2 includes the watermark in all the various sized thumbnails.
Anyone know a way to upload iages to K2 items without loosing metadata?
After updating template to version 1.1.2 links on tags no longer works (404 Not found). Tested on fresh quickstart installation, Joomla updated to latest version 3.3.3 and K2 version 2.6.8.
fernando lopez wrote: Saludos espero le funcione para alguien, yo lo resolví desactivando la Compresión Gzip, en configuración global en joomla. importante para que notes que si funciona debes crear un articulo nuevo o con un articulo ya existente pegarl el link en developers debugger de facebook y hacerle debug, después de eso puedes pegar ese mismo link en facebook o compartirlo con tus botones sociales que uses y veras que funciona por lo menos a mi me funciono así. Nota: Ya cuando crees nuevos artículos No tienes porque ir hasta la web developers, ya a partir de nuevos articulos tienes los meta org. funcionando. espero le sirva a alguien ademas es gratis probarlo jeje saludos...
Hola, si habia probado eso en anterior oprotunidad siendo correcta tu respuesta, pero tras la actualizacion, se volvio a dañar y ahi es donde se me quemaron los conocimientos jaja, muchas gracias!
Parece que era lo que sospechaba, las etiquetas ( tag) de los articulos listados que ofrece el modulo echo con RokSprocket Module, del componente RokSprocket, causaban conflicto.
Al agregar los articulos al listado que deseaba mostrar en el modulo, por defecto el componente iba dejando abiertos los tag de cada articulo. Coloque en "none" (en la opcion tag) en todos los articulos agregados en todos los modulos echos con el mismo componente.En la opcion Strip HTML Tags puse "NO". Instale el plugging Content - SP Share porque habia perdido algunas etiquetas del K2. Limpie con debugger de facebook las url afectadas y por fin esta funcionando correctamente. Ahora cada vez que agrego un articulo nuevo al modulo, continuo colocando "none", de esa manera logre solucionarlo.
Deseo agradecer a todos los que intentaron ayudarme por ser tan muy amables conmigo. Saludos!!
We are experiencing some weird issues with some K2 items when translating using the falang component and are hoping that you can shed some light on our problem. We operate a travel site at www.visitmeteora.travel that has all of its articles as K2 items. We used K2 because of the flexibility it provides using its K2 extrafields. We are using the Falang component for translating the site and it all were working fine until a few days ago we decided to enable the "Add alternate meta tags" on the language filter plugin to enable the hreflang tags. After that, if one tries to change the language of an item that does not have a menu via the language switcher he goes to the corresponding category of the item. The item language it working just fine because after he goes to the translated category, he can then navigate into the translated K2 item. Any help would be great!
We are using Joomla 3.2 with K2 2.6.6 and just updated Falang to current version 1.4 free. Please keep in mind that we cannot update Joomla core or K2 at this time due to changes in core. We will eventually update but since it is now high season (it is a travel site) we cannot do it right now.
Guten Tag, mein Name ist Lutz und ich bin ein K2 Neuling. Joomla ist mir nicht fremd, aber die Artikelverwaltung mit K2 ist ja wirklich sehr vielseitig.
Eine kleine Frage hätte ich gleich zu Anfang. Ist es eigentlich machbar die Artikelvorschau in der Kategorie öffentlich zu gestalten, die Detailansicht der der Artikel jedoch nur registrierten Nutzern zu erlauben? Aufgrund der vielen Einstellmöglichkeiten, dachte ich dieses Feature zu finden. Habe dabei aber leider nichts entdeckt.
