Hi there

 

I am getting this error, 403 Forbidden,  when I try and create a K2 menu Item/Catagory or any of the other K2 menu options. I don't get the error if I try create a standard joomla article menu.

 

Any suggestions as I have finished loading all my content into the site and don't want to do a fresh install of joomla.

 

I am using joomla 1.5.22

k2 v 2.4.1

 

Any suggestions to get ride of this error.

 

Many thanks

Lara

Howdy :)Joomla 1.5.22 | Joom!Fish Version V2.1.3 | K2 v2.2 | sh404sef  2.2.2.941I've got a weired problem :oI can do the translations of the K2 categories, tags, extra fields and the translations are shown.Whenever I try to translate a K2 item, the page will open, I can do some editing, the "extra fields" (already translated) are shown surrounded by source code. I can neither use - save- apply- closeThe page is totally unresponsive - I cannot reload it and have to call the backend anew.I also checked your thread - to no availhttp://community.getk2.org/forum/topics/joomfish-and-k2-how-do-they?xg_source=activityand this thread here:http://www.joomfish.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=7634Any suggestions are greatly appreciated :DThank you.

jphoto have just come back and said that they dont have the ability to search metadata of jpgs? so does anyone know of any other gallery program that has th capabilities that i am looking for? What about Phoco?

Anika-

Did you ever resolve this issue? I seem to have the same problem. When I select "Edit Item; from the front end, the modal box opens and I can see it says "K2 Item Edit" with the Save and Cancel buttons, the title and tags lines, but then all I see are the tabs for "Content", "Image", etc. with nothing underneath, just white.

 

Brian

yes, i had to change permissions first to edit, then re-change back to 444...

Where is one of those greek genius guys when you need them...

Wait, i'm sorry, apparently you are of greek heritage also. (if not so, please take no offense)

Thanks for your responses. Rochen has no answer for this either....

Hi

When I upload a zipped file in the gallery, the ID doesn't show on the SGP page. I need it because I need to display the image gallery in the articles (for example {gallery}mygallery{/gallery}) but I can't. Currently the images from the zipped file show at the end of the article and other K2 links such as related by tag, latest by author, etc.

Your urgent reply is appreciated.

thank you

I personally find it easier to use a Joomla article as my home page since you usually don't use K2 functionality on a home page (ie: no comments, no tags, no author, no extra fields...).  If you have a magazine, blog or storefront it would be different but it looks like you just use your home page as a simple HTML container (and you only have one item in your Front-Page category).

 

In general I also stay outside of K2 for any landing page - like for Adwords or single purpose pages especially since I use sh404 and K2 lacks the concept of the Joomla's "Uncategorized".  Note: I don't use front-page editing nor have more than 2 contributors so your needs might warrant using K2 in these cases.

 

William, do you see an advantage to using a single k2 item instead of a Joomla article for the front page? I might be missing something (besides the obvious "all in one place" kinds of things).

 

--Olivier


William White said:

Check item view in category listings for read more option

Thanks for clarifying that Ken, sounds like the way to go :)  Will let you know how I get on!

 

Ruth

Ken Lyle said:

Using the Import tool, you can either append tags to existing items OR import the full items from a CSV.

In your case, where you have Joomla Content, use the K2 Import function, because that will be an intra-database transfer, whereas transferring article content via CSV is fraught with peril.

Then, one way or another, generate the spreadsheet/CSV that the Import tool needs.  Here's the link to that tool: community.getk2.org/xn/detail/3536014:BlogPost:102749

Alternatively, the ContentUploader from FreakedOut.de.  But I have only personally done an update/append of information to existing items using Mr. Neuman's kit.

Overall, if you can specify the conditions, and then just do one record with the tags you want, it should be pretty trivial to do the tagging in PHPMyAdmin.  You might also enjoy the convenience of using Access or better via ODBC.

 

I'm using K2 items as my home page and link via a tag - all works well except the item shows at the bottom of the item 'Read more ..."

Looking at the 'Item view options' there is no place to hide this.

Have a got this wrong?

Does anyone know how to remove this link?

 

see www.primed.net.au

Using the Import tool, you can either append tags to existing items OR import the full items from a CSV.

In your case, where you have Joomla Content, use the K2 Import function, because that will be an intra-database transfer, whereas transferring article content via CSV is fraught with peril.

Then, one way or another, generate the spreadsheet/CSV that the Import tool needs.  Here's the link to that tool: community.getk2.org/xn/detail/3536014:BlogPost:102749

Alternatively, the ContentUploader from FreakedOut.de.  But I have only personally done an update/append of information to existing items using Mr. Neuman's kit.

Overall, if you can specify the conditions, and then just do one record with the tags you want, it should be pretty trivial to do the tagging in PHPMyAdmin.  You might also enjoy the convenience of using Access or better via ODBC.

 

Oh, ok! Thank you very much for this fast help & reply! The Link is dead,... but i found it by searching by the thread: community.getk2.org/forum/topics/latest-sh404sef-k2-aliases?commentId=3536014%3AComment%3A96179

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Elisa Olivier Karfis said:

Hi Elisa.

It sounds like you are running into a known bug in K2 2.4.1 where the aliases are actually disregarded and are created from the title tag no matter what the item alias is set to. It's been fixed in the SVN.  Take a look at this thread and see if this solves some of your issues:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/latest-sh404sef-k2-aliases


Make sure you use the sef_ext/com_k2.php from the SVN drop

 

--Olivier

 

 

Hi Elisa.

It sounds like you are running into a known bug in K2 2.4.1 where the aliases are actually disregarded and are created from the title tag no matter what the item alias is set to. It's been fixed in the SVN.  Take a look at this thread and see if this solves some of your issues:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/latest-sh404sef-k2-aliases


Make sure you use the sef_ext/com_k2.php from the SVN drop

 

--Olivier

 

 

Quick answers below: 



Olivier.....If i set up sh404SEF that no category shows in URL, (just homepage + Item ID + Item Alias).

May i then move Items from one category to another without fear for punishment in Google ?

And would sh404SEF automatically recognise movement ?

 

>>sh404 should automatically recognize the move if the original URL was also managed by sh404 (meaning it was enabled & used before the move).  If the actual URL changes then it will set up what it calls an 'alias' which will generate a 301 code and a redirect to the new URL (recommended method by Google so you don't loose your page rank)

 

What is best solution for moving Items (or Joomla Articles) between categories ?

 

>>Not sure what you are asking. Just check all the articles/items you want to move then click on Move and select the new category.

 

With SEF native ? And with sh4040SEF ?

 

>> The moving method is the same.  As mentioned in the 1st point, sh404 should see the change and create aliases, if you need, you can also manually create aliases (some of my pages have 4-5 aliases that have kept track of the structure changes during 2 years of an evolving site)

 

I guess SEF native requires lot of changes in core code.

 

>> There is very little user control over the way the URLs are created by the built-in SEF engine, that's why people use sh404 or other SEF extensions.  Through the sh404 interface, you can select if you want your URLs to have things like the itemID, the name of the category and/or alias, an extension like .htm at the end, the name of the view, etc... It's very customizable for Joomla articles, there are a lot less options for K2 items unfortunately (but the key ones are there). sh404 also can also do nice things like add your site name after your page title or automatically create missing metatags...

 

--Olivier

Tnx Leon, really working...

Hi is there anyway to change it so that it shows the title of the of the parent category?

Manukat said:
2 options. 1. rename child category to something else by going to the joomla language folder and editing "en-GB.com_k2.ini"
around line 80, you will see "CHILDREN CATEGORIES=Children categories" replace text after = to whatever you want.

2. remove all together: you need to edit category.php, either from the component folder/com_k2/templates/default
or if your template is overriding it, you need to find this file in your template folder.

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Go to around line 78 and remove the text from the start to the end of the H3 tags - h3 tags have been modified for display purposes since you can put code in here.
" see attached screenshots

In the K2 parameters advance settings is the tagging system set to free tagging? 

To my articles I have added tags. On my main page I show the tag cloud by using the k2_mod_tools module.

 

I want to have a module displayed on the page that is displayed when I click on one the tag words.

I jump to a subpage that starts with domain.org/tag/tagkeyword/articlename (I have sh404sef enabled, that's why the sef url).

real url =

../index.php?option=com_k2&lang=en&tag=analyst+view&task=tag&view=itemlist

 

How can I hav this accomplished?

Hello fellow K2 users!

I have recently updated K2 to v 2.4.1 and I am not able to input any tags into the text field in the Joomla! back end. I can type in the box, but neither a comma nor pressing 'Enter' will actually make the tag 'stick' so I can add another one.

I'm not sure what is going on or while file or script is responsible for this?

I have re-uploaded all of the administrator files from the 2.4.1 package and still it is the same.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

I think the only mods to htaccess have been to :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bikechatter.co.uk$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ bikechatter.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

 

# Turn off eTagsHeader unset ETagFileETag none# Check that the expires module has been installed<IfModule mod_expires.c>ExpiresActive OnExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType application/x-unknown-content-type "access plus 10 years"ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 10 years"

 

Gzip is activated in Joomla backend and is used on the server but for some reason I do not understand it does not seem to gzip a lot of files it should (according to firebug and pagespeed)

 

As you say with expires headers and the way the site is generally setup it should be rapid and on a lot of pages it is - apart from my nested categories with over a hundred articles in each, this SHOULD not cause an issue in K2 so something is not playing ball.

 

Answers to you Q are:

I only ever update my sites manually with file overwrites using a root access sftp

I am not sure what you mean by this? If I understand correctly though - I do not host the server on my personal ISP, the server is based in a US datacentre and is a fully managed package so there should be no issues with the tech.

Great! I did figure this out! Also with the flash I am using Slideshow Pro with the Thumbnail option. I was able to put the location of the swf file in the video section of the Item in the admin panel. I altered the All Videos Css files to give a white background and the Keyline border around the flash. Then I took the block of code for the video from the item.php and replaced the itemimage div. For kickers I was also able to create new DIV blocks to hold the player to the left then one to the right to hold my extra fields, tags etc. Turned out GREAT!

 

Thanks you for making K2! Love it!

 

John