I'm basically looking to have a tag view but make the featured items a different colour so it looks like this category view www.bandsforhire.net/function-bands

My new site uses the latest version of K2 and Joomla 2..5.

Thanks

Hallo Experten!

Habe gestern das K2 Tag-Cloud Module entdeckt und in meiner Homepage eingebaut.
Gibt es da eine Möglichkeit die Darstellung der Wörter nach Zufall anzuzeigen?

Die derzeitige Anzeige nach den "besten" Schlagwörtern ist leider nciht so sehr abwechslungsreich :)

DANKE!

Dear All,

Your quick will be appreciated, I used Advance SEF settings, finally something great from k2, Thanks,

Problem:

Now all tags which are not associated as menu Item are not showing assigned Modules which i assigned k2 Categories menu Items, afcourse i cant assign each tag as menu item, can you tell me the solution, so my website could come-back in good layout which was set before enabling Advance SEF settings.




Looking forward

So Fotis now has posted a K2 2.6.5 news and I don't have facebook, yahoo, aol and hotmail to comment on the article (he disabled the default K2 comment system for some reason, but that's ok, because he wasn't approving comments anyway) I'm going to ask the question here.

In the source code of the system/k2.php file I found this:

/ Define the default Itemid for users and tags. Defined here instead of the K2HelperRoute for performance reasons.
// UPDATE : Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'));
//define('K2_TAGS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultTagsItemid'));

I have bolded the important part, performance reasons. Can you elaborate a bit more? Does enabling the duplicated tag/user pages options in K2 2.6.4 result in performance issues? How many queries are executed compared to the new method in K2 2.6.5?

My next question is also releated to performance issues. In K2 2.6.4 the description for the advanced SEF settings is as follows:

Enabling this option will modify all K2 URLs making them more SEO friendly. However this option will add a significant performance hit for websites with more than a few hundred K2 items in them. Use with caution. This option is disabled by default.

This sounds as if the new URLs are stored in the database just like sh404 sef URLs. Is this the case? Can you elaborate more?

I know that the line to edit is div.k2ItemsBlock ul li a.moduleItemTitle {}
But I don't know where to put the h3 call.

I do not want to use a font markup like: div.k2ItemsBlock ul li a.moduleItemTitle {font-size:18px;} because that will only change the style, where the H3 tag in my website's template changes the font of the text

See Attached image:
The column on the left is the K2 module. I would like my K2 item titles to resemble that of the other module on the right.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

As I thought, you still have duplicated URLs with tag and user pages when those lines in the k2.php are commented.

Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.

The advanced SEF options ain't do nothing about this. I don't know what this "anyK2Link" is supposed to mean, but it obviously isn't working. Tags and user pages links all start with "component/k2" if not assigned to a menu, resulting in multiple duplicated URLs accross your site.

No I didn't, but thanks for the heads-up.

// Define the default Itemid for users and tags. Defined here instead of the K2HelperRoute for performance reasons.
// UPDATE : Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'))
//define('K2_TAGS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultTagsItemid'));

So that explains it then. I will do some testing now and report my results shortly.

Fotis introduced in the K2 2.6.4 news these following options:

"Default parent menu for user pages (optional)"
"Default parent menu for tag listings (optional)"

These options kill the duplicated URL issue with tags and user pages. But for some reason, he removed these options in K2 2.6.5, which means you have yet again duplicated URLs with tags and author pages. The new SEF advance options can't do nothing about this.

At this point, there hasn't been a news to K2 2.6.5 posted, so lets hope that Fotis can explain his decision to remove these options soon.

In the meantime, simply don't update to K2 2.6.5.

The solution seems to be in the 2.6.4 version. I read the blog about this release and now it works for me.

Others who have the same problem, start reading from: a) kill duplicate URLs created for tags and users once and for all

There is only one new problem. The template override when reading an article, is not working. I had to rename the item.php in websiteroot/components/com_k2/templates/default so it is not loaded anymore. And it now loads the override.

So it seems like that the template override does not work with this new advanced Sef settings.

Can anybody confirm that?

Olivier Nolbert wrote: Bonjour,

Malheureusement, je ne pense pas qu'il y ait une communauté K2 plus active qu'ici.

Je comprends ta frustration et la partage. Il faut tout de même voir que K2 n'est pas une extension commerciale et que c'est ce qui a fait en partie son succès. Cela lui a permis de s'installer rapidement en tête des extensions de gestion de contenu.

J'avais pris l'habitude d'utiliser K2 par défaut pour tous mes projets Joomla! et en tant que développeur, je pouvais ajouter presque toutes les fonctionnalités manquantes grâce aux plugins.

D'autres outils sont maintenant présents et sont pour moi plus performants que K2 sur certains aspects.

La grosse lacune de K2 est le manque d'écoute de l'équipe de développement sur les fonctionnalités à améliorer ou à ajouter.

J'essaie de participer de mon mieux à la vie de la communauté K2, surtout la partie française mais devant le peu d'implication de l'équipe K2, je ne suis pas motivé plus que ça.

J'ai depuis quelques temps intégré d'autres communautés Joomla! qui elles sont beaucoup plus actives et plus communautaires !

Olivier

Effectivement.. Je suis de ton avis Oli par rapport a l'activité et la motivation ici.. quand je trouve des problèmes j'Essaie de les régler mais ce n'est pas vraiment facile sans faire de "hack" au coeur de K2.
j'dois constamment refaire les ajustement après les mise a jour bref... après avoir attendu 2mise a jour le feature et le correctif a été ajouté.

En esperant que K2 Core developpment soit un peu plus a l'écoute des "helper" qui essaie d'aider au bon fonctionnement de leur logiciel!

j'ai lue énormement sur le phénomène des Items et Catégories qui disparaisse dans l'admin.

J'ai fait des recherches et je pense avoir une partie de la réponse... Je fais appel au créateur de K2 afin de complété ou d'expliquer du pourquoi du comment..

ceci est des hypothese par rapport a ce que j'ai comme problème et d'après ce que j'ai compris.

Premierement, le phénomène arrive lorsqu'une session "language" est présentement sur le frontend du site internet.

arrivant dans l'administration dans K2, quand les items n'Apparaisse pas..
j'Ai effectuer un