But i am not sure i understand you. You want to show some image from Gallery plugin ? (Simple image gallery)

 

Then i don´t know how. Use some (ONE) image besides SIG and make it as hidden in Item. Use it only because of rotate module. You can use one image from SIG. Yes, it would be twice at server, but don´t know better automatised option.

will try but I would need multiple tags.  so one featured option is not going to work.

 

Specifically here is an example of what the site requires:

1. k2 item of an apple,  tagged "fruit"

2. k2 item of a tomato, tagged "vegetable"

3. k2 item of a carrot , tagged "vegetable"

4. k2 item of a squash , tagged "vegetable"

5. Rototor module on tomato page showing carrot and squash

6. Rototor module on apple page showing all fruits

 

Mod_xpertscroller can rotate only Featured. (free)

Mod_lofk2slideshow can rotate only Featured. (free)

Mod_news_pro_gk4 can rotate only Featured. (free)

Mod_lofk2scroller can rotate only Featured. (free)

 

And many others. I beleive they are all free.

rotate the one image from the k2 item image field from multiple k2 items.

Wait. Do you want to rotate Items (ONE) image ?

Or multiple images from one Item (gallery) ?

Initially, I was hoping I could add syntax to the SIG pro extension to accomplish most of what I wanted but I haven't found any documentation on how to do this.

With help of some K2 module from Joomla extensions. Almost all can rotate "Featured" but i don´t know any that react at "Tags".

 

Because of that i said this above.

For your visitors it is the same, they never notice.

 

And Number 3 is dificult.

ok, but how to i set up a image rotator/slideshow?

BBC said:
If you don´t use "Featured" option for Items then you can use it instead of Tags. Visitors wouldn´t notice, same thing for them.

Then just in PHP code disable featured to show everywhere.

If you don´t use "Featured" option for Items then you can use it instead of Tags. Visitors wouldn´t notice, same thing for them.

Then just in PHP code disable featured to show everywhere.

If you are using a template from a template provider maybe you should ask them to help you with it, if not, provide a link to your site to take a look.

Are you using the video tags inside the item description or the K2 video through the tabs of the K2 item?

This plugin to generate the graphic doesn't seem to show up on K2 items for me. I have looked at the  view source on K2 content and cannot see any of the script loading. On regular articles I can.

Pete Stevens said:
further update - solution to chosen facebook image

 

found what seems like a nice simple plugin that picks the first image from article/item (or category if you have not disabled like at category level - see my earlier reply) and passes it through to facebook.So you just need to enable this plugin after installing and then make the image you want in facebook to be your first image in your article/item.

 

www.perfect-web.pl/download/joomla/plugins/file/7-facebook-l...

 

It does it by generating the necessary image_src meta tag, (slightly different format than I had specified in my experiment)

span class="start-tag">link href="http://www.url-imagepath/imagename.jpg" rel="image_src" />

but I guess it's the same thing

 

hope you guys can now get your k2 facebook like plugin to work how you want now, I'm happy with mine ;)

 

Pete

 

Pete Stevens said:

update:

I did an experiment. I've found that adding an image src tag into the template html tells facebook which image to use:

e.g.in the head section I added a tag of this format:

 

<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.url-imagepath/imagename.jpg"/>

facebook then used this specified image in the like link. Great.so then tech people, how can we dynamically generate this code so that the html for each item page includes a image-src tag for the image associated with the item?
 

n.b can add description and keyword metatags for each item using metadata information parameters but there is no option to add image meta as far as i can tell)

 

Pete

 

Pete Stevens said:

Hi Ryan,

to disable it from category view (so only shows on items):

go to each category where you want it disabled, or if you have set your categories to 'inherit parameter options from (a specified) category' then you can just disable it there so that all categories inherit the setting.

 

from the parameters select 'item view options in category listings' - scroll down to Advanced and change 'Enable k2 plugins' from yes to No

 

I don't think this plugin is for twitter to but you can use it in conjunction with AddThis (you can search the forum for AddThis info).

 

Unfortunatly I haven't yet cracked the problem that Kire is experiencing. I too am seeing an image (from the same page I think) other than the one I have associated with the item on the liked link in facebook.

 

Any ideas?

 

Pete

Hi I have Joomla 1.5.21, Simple Image Gallery PRO v2.0.5 and K2 2.4.1 installed.

how can I remove the h2 title and the empty itemImageGallery container when there is no gallery uploaded for a specific item?

the item.php source for the simple gallery looks like this:

<?php if($this->item->params->get('itemImageGallery') && !empty($this->item->gallery)): ?>
  <!-- Item image gallery -->
  <a name="itemImageGalleryAnchor" id="itemImageGalleryAnchor"></a>
  <h2><?php echo JText::_('Image Gallery'); ?></h2>
  <div class="itemImageGallery">
      <?php echo $this->item->gallery; ?>
  </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

The output for an item with NO gallery uploaded is still:
span class="nodeTag">a id="itemImageGalleryAnchor" name="itemImageGalleryAnchor"> </a>
span class="nodeTag">h2>Title</h2>
span class="nodeTag">div class="itemImageGallery"> </div

The !empty function obviously does not work here I think.
Any ideas on that?

1. create a custom K2 template using the recommended mvc method (copy/rename the default template - new template will live in your own template html directory).

2. open item.php and go to line 208 (or thereabouts).

3.Remove the anchor around the image, starting with here:

&lt;a class="modal" href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;item-&gt;imageXLarge; ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo JText::_('Click to preview image'); ?&gt;"&gt;

Make sure you strip out the closing &lt;/a&gt; tag as well (@ line 210.
Note that removing class name "modal" should kill the lightbox, but leaves the anchor, which you porb don't need. 

4. then be sure to select your new template in the category or menu (some K2 menu types allow for K2 template overrides).

Cheers,

Alan

 

 

Hi everyone !

 

I use K2 for my Joomla website, all works well, but today, by using the tags, I discover one big problem :

 

In all my url, I think my Purity II template add "&amp;itemID=[my_menu_item]" at the end of my url, and this parameter stay even if I click on an item.

 

For exemple, I create a menu item who link on a K2 category, I have an URL like this :

 

intranet.ville.wasquehal/intranet/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=21&Itemid=27

 

This itemid is add by the Purity II template, it's the id of the menu I clicked.

 

And when I click on a item of this category, and then, on a tag of this item, I have this :

 

intranet.ville.wasquehal/intranet/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag=risques&Itemid=27

 

You see ? So the ItemID is still here, and for the tag title it cause problem, it display the page title instead of tags title...

 

How I could fix this issue with Purity II, nobody have this problem ?

 

Thanks ;)

Hi,

 

I have just recently installed K2 and now I am changing all my articles to K2. One strange thing happens and I don't know how to switch it off (if necessary at all).

Every time I change an article to K2 the general site name is added to the meta keywords (tags) for that page.

E.g.  this page navigonlp.com/NLP-Courses/Others/Lifestyle-Reset.html.

Before the pages meta tag was "NLP in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Lifestyle Reset" which was fine. After switching to the K2 items the site name "Navigo NLP Certification Malaysia. Coaching, Corporate Training and Enneagram" is added at the end.

 

I must admit that I am a complete newb so forgive me if my question is kind of silly or doesn't make sense to you. I am just concerned that it will affect google ranking negatively if it appears on every page.

 

Do I make sense at all? :)

 

Your help is highly appreciated.

 

Carsten

 

Has everyone using K2 just given up on SEF image naming/alt tag/title tag/keywords?

I surprised that others don't think this would be a useful feature.

Yes. Please explain.

Currently, I am using certain tags as categories by linking them to an item or blank page and using a content item, custom module, content module and image rotator module to serve as the category description. This makes it more difficult to create and manage but more customizable.

Still wish we had the option referenced herein.

The previous link was addressing the core, if you're looking at utilizing the K2 category, I think this blog page should cover it. I was having problems finding it too...   Hope it helps.