Hi Markus,

Don't know how to solve your exact problem but I've ran into the itemid issue when displaying the tag or author page and with sh404 on.
One hack is to use the Advanced Module Manager (www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager) and assign default modules to appear when no itemid is found. Maybe that can solve some of your issues...

--Olivier

Hi,
I love the K2 component and have just used it on a customers site. Perfect for their news and articles pages.

However, the site also has a shop (Virtuemart) and a forum (Kunena) that are currently performing badly on load times.

Analysing the site load (using www.octagate.com site timer) I see that on these pages, even though there is no K2 functionality on the pages, the page is loading the following from K2

com_k2/css/k2.css
com_k2/js/k2.js
com_k2/css/../images/fugue/feed.png
com_k2/css/../images/system/loading.gif
com_k2/css/../images/syste.../transparent_star.gif
com_k2/css/../images/system/featuredItem.png
com_k2/css/../images/system/font_decrease.gif
com_k2/css/../images/system/font_increase.gif
com_k2/css/../images/social/twitter_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/delicious_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/digg_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/facebook_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/googlebuzz_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/myspace_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/reddit_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/stumbleupon_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/social/technorati_16.png
com_k2/css/../images/syste.../k2CalendarLoader.gif
com_k2/css/../images/fugue/globe.png
com_k2/css/../images/fugue/mail.png
k2/css/../images/system/videoplayer-bg.gif
com_k2/css/../images/system/stripes.png


Now these items above are adding around 2-4 seconds to the page load which is impacting on the performance of these pages.

Is there anyway of restricting them to only load on pages where K2 is actually used?

Does disabling the System-K2 plugin remove these but then will K2 work with this disabled?

Thanks in anticipation

James

We are extremely happy to announce the launch of K2 Store V2, with more
enhancements and complete overhaul of the code.

We are also pleased to announce the launch of a dedicated website for K2
Store. Have a look at here k2store.org

Key features of the new version are

1. MVC structure

2. K2Store specific Payment Plug-ins

3. Enhanced checkout process

4. Guest checkout

5. Improved orders manager

An important feature will also be available during the beta release

6. Download supportNOTE: This is in alpha stage. Users will be
allowed to download the new version at the end of this week.

I want to replace my front page with a K2 item.If I link a menu item to a category I get the folder icon (not a good look for the front page so that's out)Link to an item - that's no good as my client likes to put up a new front page every other week so I want it dynamic.So I thought Link to a Tag - BUT here's the issue:How do you control the layout of an item linked by a tag? There are 3 view optionsCategoryItem in a CategoryItemBUT NO TAG - you change any item in the above 3 sections and it has not effect on the layout of the item when selected by tag.When an item is selected by a tag you getRSS feedDate createdTitlePublished in ...How do I turn these off?? Until I can I'll have to use Joomla Articles :(CheersIan

I recently used K2 to develop a company intranet system. The front end editing is currently holding us back in terms of ease of use.

I would really love to get to a point where K2 could be used with live writer. It would difficult I think to put the additional fields into place as this would presumably require a plugin for livewriter. However if even the article entry and tagging could be used this would probably account for 90% of my use.

I would transfer my own personal websites to K2 tomorrow if this feature could be implemented. I really do rely on live writer for producing content offline... far more reliable when composing longer articles!

This didn't work for me but I still thank you for the help. I was looking for a layout like alphacontent like the image below but items listed in category view on my homepage still shows the title above the img tag in the introtext.



K2 still showed it as

I am little experienced in customizing Joomla components and modules. I really love K2 and Joomla and use this combination on all my sites.What I want to do is to also auto-submit "IntroText" in "MetaDescription" and tags and comma separated keywords in appropriate tables/columns of DB, while creating article.Any assistance would be must appreciated, thanks.JD.

Hi Josh,

I believe this is a problem with the urls, when you put search engine friendly urls on it screws up some of the catagory view (or so I have found). When I disabled SEF Urls the templates were working as they should do, so i would recommend installing another extension to do this.

I use JoomSEF and the problem was solved for me.

Hope that helps.

Andy



Josh Parsley said:Hello,
It looks like you found a resolution for this. What did you do?

Thanks,

Josh

I just installed K2 locally for testing and am so impressed! Thank you for a great product. I do  however have a three questions. The first of which is that the captcha code is not showing up. I see the text that explains that the user has to enter the two words below, and thereafter is the submit button. In the CSS code there is only empty div tag pointing to a captcha class.I also wonder if I can disable comments. I will have 20+ users and only a few will want to have comments enabled. I do however want to maintain each memeber page as a K2 item.My third question is if there are any available swedish language files?I have looked around the forum and not found the answers to these questions. I would be very greatful if someone could either answer me here or point me in the right direction. Thank you!Helena Åsgård

Diego,

The information in the plugin configuration page basically says:
Create a folder structure in your Joomla template html folder as follows:
/templates/YOURJOOMLATEMPLATE/html/com_k2/templates/mytpl/

tip1: mytpl is the name of your K2 template
Inside that folder create a CCS file named:
/templates/YOURJOOMLATEMPLATE/html/com_k2/templates/mytpl/mytpl_style.css

tip2: The css file should be named adding "_style.css" to the name of your K2 template.

Ubirajara



diego said:Hello In the directory "templates/ja_purity_ii/html/com_k2/templates/default" i have the file "ja_purity_ii_style.css". However I select as Layout template of category the default template, it is loaded the css from "components/com_k2/css/k2.css" and not the ja_purity_ii_style.css. The same happens on the pages showing the items of a specific tag. Why? Any idea? Thanks

You're English is good. And we understand your frustration. Zoo has its advantages but, after my limited testing, as a whole, it does not compare to the complete package K2 offers. Though, as you stated, perhaps one of the most intuitive and necessary functionality, multi-category publishing of a single item, does not exist in K2 but does in Zoo. I have much time and effort into K2, but I actually have tested Zoo to consider migrating to it due to this limitation in K2. I'm not hopping the fence anytime soon but am keeping an open mind. Thanks for your comments.

kiril Hristov Yovev said:with the component "Zoo" you can add item un multiple categories. I think that the k2 developers should do something about this... this is a must have feature... it is really really important. When few months ago i've opened new thread about this you've said to me that this problem is solved with the tags-but it's not the same. There are huge diferenses between tags and multiple categories... DOn't understand me wrong-i love k2.....but i really miss this great feature...
(SOrry for my bad english)

with the component "Zoo" you can add item un multiple categories. I think that the k2 developers should do something about this... this is a must have feature... it is really really important. When few months ago i've opened new thread about this you've said to me that this problem is solved with the tags-but it's not the same. There are huge diferenses between tags and multiple categories... DOn't understand me wrong-i love k2.....but i really miss this great feature...

(SOrry for my bad english)

Hi since I updated to the latest version of K2 I experience very slow saving. It can even take minutes to save. In average is 30 to 40 seconds. This happens only at front end. However, when I click on save, I look at the backend and the records (Item, Tags) are there, however front end seems to wait for something...I have Joomla 1.5.20 and the latest mootools.Please help!

[SOLVED]

just fond this solution posted in this thread!!!

link

Life Savior!


Hugo Cavaleiro said:Hi Johan,
Tryed those "dirty" solutions with no luck. Tryed also Silvena solution also with no luck.

I've noticed what you report

At the bottom of the translation page for a K2_categories Menu Item in translation view there is a parameter called link.

Now the original for this param reads for instance:

index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=5

However the translation reads:
index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=y&id=


Is there a K2 solution for this?

I'm using joomla 1.5.20, with joomfish 2.0.4 and K2 v2.4

Thanks for any help..



Johan Nobel said:I had te same problem, but "solved it" in a not so correct way. The main problem is the following:

In the original Menu Item "Fetch items from children catagories" is greyed out.
In my case this setting reads "Yes", although I have specified "Catalog mode: Yes" for this category in the K2 category manager (This imples "No" for fetch children items).

Of course I can set "Fetch items from children categories" to No in the translation for the menu. This does not solve the problem however.

At the bottom of the translation page for a K2_categories Menu Item in translation view there is a parameter called link.

Now the original for this param reads for instance:

index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=5

However the translation reads:
index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=y&id=

Modifying and saving does not help either, the task and id parts are emptied on save somehow.

When you see this it is logical that things go wrong for the translated item.

My quick and dirty fix was to copy the original link into the the value field in those records in the jf_content tables where reference_table=="menu " and reference_field == "link".

Alternative solution, but not tested
I figure that if there is no need to translate the link url, you could also modify the line:

field type="text" name="link" translate="1" posthandler="saveUrlParams" prehandler="checkUrlType"

change it into

field type="text" name="link" translate="0" posthandler="saveUrlParams" prehandler="checkUrlType"

in the the menu.xml file in the contentelements folder.

But I have not tested that, so there might be side effects!

Kind regards,
Johan

Hi Johan,

Tryed those "dirty" solutions with no luck. Tryed also Silvena solution also with no luck.

I've noticed what you report

At the bottom of the translation page for a K2_categories Menu Item in translation view there is a parameter called link.

Now the original for this param reads for instance:

index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=5

However the translation reads:
index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=y&id=


Is there a K2 solution for this?

I'm using joomla 1.5.20, with joomfish 2.0.4 and K2 v2.4

Thanks for any help..



Johan Nobel said:I had te same problem, but "solved it" in a not so correct way.
The main problem is the following:

In the original Menu Item "Fetch items from children catagories" is greyed out.
In my case this setting reads "Yes", although I have specified "Catalog mode: Yes" for this category in the K2 category manager (This imples "No" for fetch children items).

Of course I can set "Fetch items from children categories" to No in the translation for the menu. This does not solve the problem however.

At the bottom of the translation page for a K2_categories Menu Item in translation view there is a parameter called link.

Now the original for this param reads for instance:

index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=5

However the translation reads:
index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=y&id=

Modifying and saving does not help either, the task and id parts are emptied on save somehow.

When you see this it is logical that things go wrong for the translated item.

My quick and dirty fix was to copy the original link into the the value field in those records in the jf_content tables where reference_table=="menu " and reference_field == "link".

Alternative solution, but not tested
I figure that if there is no need to translate the link url, you could also modify the line:

field type="text" name="link" translate="1" posthandler="saveUrlParams" prehandler="checkUrlType"

change it into

field type="text" name="link" translate="0" posthandler="saveUrlParams" prehandler="checkUrlType"

in the the menu.xml file in the contentelements folder.

But I have not tested that, so there might be side effects!

Kind regards,
Johan

Hi Omalanp,

Pour la point a)

Il faut que tu ajoutes la ligne suivante dans le fichier de traduction 'language/fr-FR/fr-FR.com_k2.ini'

WRITE A TAG AND PRESS "RETURN" OR "COMMA" TO ADD IT.=Ecrivez un tag et appuyez sur la touche "Entrée" ou "virgule" pour l'ajouter.

Pour le point b)
Les dimensions de la fenêtre d'édition sont en dur. Il faut donc modifier cela dans le module mod_k2_login et dans les fichiers K2.

Le plus propre est de passer par une copie des fichiers dans ton template Joomla!. Voir ce lien pour une explication (pour K2 et en anglais) : community.getk2.org/notes/Templating_in_K2

Olivier

Problem Dimension Editor in Front EndI made good progress in learning K2 is an excellent tool travail.et design.However, I have a problem with the editor Font weekend (photo attached for explanation).2 Questions that I can not find an answer.:      a) How to change "Write a tag and press return or comma to add it" in French?      b) The size of the editor is good. But is it possible to reduce all the content for better framing.Again thank you for your support

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Probleme Dimension Editeur en Front EndJ'ai bien progressé dans l'apprentissage de K2 qui est un excellent outil de travail.et de conception.J'ai cependant un problème avec l'éditeur en Font end ( photo jointe pour explication).2 Questions auxquelles je ne trouvent pas de réponse.:      a) Comment faire pour modifier  "Write a tag and press return or comma to add it" en Français?      b)La dimension de l'éditeur est bonne. Mais est-il possible de réduire tout le contenu pour obtenir un meilleur cadrage.Encore merci de votre soutien

All HTML tags are stripped when an article (item) is displayed in K2 content module. But I need to display all links in introtexts. How do I retreive the a href links to the module?

 

Rgds

Hi,

I found the solution. I have disabled the new tags creation from all user levels before Administrators, in other words, the only users that are allowed to create new tags are the Administrators and the Super Administrators.
Here's how you do it:
You need to change the file administrator/components/com_k2/models/tag.php at line 68.
The current line looks like this:
if($user->gid<24 && $params->get('lockTags'))
JError::raiseError(403, JText::_("ALERTNOTAUTH"));

Modification (Notice that I am keeping the previous line as a comment.):
// The following change prevents users with less than administrator level access to create tags. 02/09/2010 by Manos
// if($user->gid<24 && $params->get('lockTags'))
if($user->gid<24)
JError::raiseError(403, JText::_("ALERTNOTAUTH"));

I hope this will help someone, because it gave me a big headache for over a month. :D

For those that it’s hard to perform the “operation” I attach the revised file. Just copy it to directory administrator/components/com_k2/models.
The file is from version K2 v2.4.1.

Take care,

Manos

Hello,

Anybody try this solution with K2.4.1? Been trying for an hour and I'm not getting anywhere...

I'd like to get the author name and also the tag list for items within the generic.php view.

Thanks!

--Olivier