The only things you can remove easily are some of the tabs. Go to K2 parameters and find the relevant settings. There you can hide some of the tags. The other things cannot be removed.

Great solution - however, what do I need to do to change it so MULTIPLE categories work?

ie. if you're viewing an item in Category 1, related items can come from cats 2, 3, and 4?

Thanks!

@John Dunstan

Thanks for your feedback. Your suggestions will be transferred to the development team.

The Joomla! redirect component just shows there requests to your server that gave a 404 error. This does not mean that your site has broken links. This seems to me like a spam attack since older versions of K2 would display a page even if the tag in the URL didn't exists. Since you have updated to latest K2 version such pages should return a 404 error. I don't think you should worry. The only thing you need to check again is that there are no broken links in your site.

Thank you for reply,

That is exactly why I am confused! The tag URLs like www.site.com/menu/childe/tag/TAGNAME.html or www.site.com/hiddenmenu/tag/TAGNAME.html work fine so I dont think making tag menu is needed in my case. In fact all the links in fronend seems to work and an actual user won't have any broken link experience but Google webmaster and Joomla redirect plugin shows all sorts of crazy urls that don't visibly exist such as:
www.site.com/menu/childe/itemlist/tag/ایمی گلوب .html(which i suspect is tag name without unicode)
www.site.com/menu/childe/itemlist/tag/NOTHING!(and sometimes just a charterer of tag name like "ب")
And the worst is this
www.site.com/menu/childe/itemlist/tag/index.php/menu/childmenu or a random k2 item
and there are other variations but I think you got the idea!

I build this website with a pre-loaded template with joomla 3 and k2 and bunch of items and menus already in it. I have been working on it on the xampp (localhost) and I transferred to online server with akeeba. I have done some overrides but mainly css template stuff. the site did not have this issue when it was offline on the xampp (joomls redirect plugin didnt show that much broken urls) . I have not installed any extension that directly was related to k2 after the transfer (I installed xmap, mailchimp plugin and user transfer extension) but I did turn on Joomlas sef feature as well as k2s sef feature after the transfer.

Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to give you some info to work with. I really appreciate your time.

Hello,

K2....While i appreciate you are trying to help user by adding the OG tags, unless you can give us control over a default image, or adding a default image per k2 item, this should never have been a default feature that has to be removed via a hack.

Many people use Sh404sef (K2, you even provide settins in parameters for sh404sef), knowing that sh404sef can add og tags, this honestly makes no sence. This creates way more issues than it solves.

mu suggestion:

1) remove the og tags from K2...there are plenty of solutions that let us joomla users add and CONTROL og tags for EVERY page on our site

2) make it a setting in parameters that we can disable k2 og tags or make it a plugin that we can disable.

Either way, this is definitely an issue, not a bug, but an issue.

I appreciate the post above showing how to 'hack' this!

Hi. These seems to be the tags URLs. If you don't have a lot of tags, try to create menu links for them. This should solve the problem. However the URLs should be www.domain.com/parent menu/childe menu/itemlist/tag/TAGNAME. If there is no tag name in the URL then you need to check all your K2 overrides as well as all third-party K2 related extensions you might have.

it depends on the page you want to apply the changes. In any case you need to remove the a tag. Example for category_item.php:

If you don't know how to do it, hire a developer to help you.

Thank your for this information. It is clearly written and the results are brilliant.

I just posted a solution on this thread (I hope it helps)...
getk2.org/community/English-K2-Community/190310-K2-has-2-sets-of-OG-tags#191602

I found this most helpful (Thanks to codeboxr.com), this is the info on their website...

How to remove the default Open graph tags for K2 (Com_k2) component and avoid duplicate OG tag issue

K2 has its own OG tag which has limitation. In that case we recommend removing OG part of K2. Follow the link below to see which part to comment out (disable) from K2.

Go here
pastebin.com/iSKmKqbv

Or check this gist
gist.github.com/codeboxr/6171227

Please note that for Joomla 1.6 or Joomla 1.7 this extension will give wrong output if caching is enabled.

Hello all,
After reading few threads it looks like few other people have had the same issue but there was no conclusion in any of them. So, here is my issue;
I have a k2 2.6.8 based website on Joomla version 3 with around 200 pages and it is growing. all the links in the frontend works fine but google webmaster as well as Joomla Redirect plugin shows 600+ auto generated k2 urls with 404 or 500 errors and they all look like this:
www.domain.com/parent menu/childe menu/itemlist/tag/duplicated address

my menu structure is:
parent menu(no link) / child (k2 item)

and I have a hidden menu for all k2 parent categories

I have around 70, 301 redirects in .htaccess and joomla sef is enabled. I attached k2 sef settings.
and I dont have sh404sef or any other 3rd party sef extensions. (I am not sure if sh404sef is already included with core k2!)
Where is itemlist/tag in the URLs coming from and is there any way to stop the generation of this type of urls?
Or even better can these urls be fixed?
Or whatever alternative solution any one can think of





I'd appreciate any help since my google ranking is already affected.

This can be setup in the K2 parameters from, go to Advanced tab, scroll down to the "Tag System Settings" section, make sure that "Tagging system" is set to "Free tagging (with auto complete)"

Hi,
On april 1st we will launch our new site using Radiowave template. To get full advantage of the template I need to migrate my articles from Zoo (Yootheme) to K2, but it is IMPOSSIBLE and no one knows how to do it!!!
Please help me with this.

Hi, thx...

ok, line 117 but is the name ?

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