Im using the K2 content module as a latest news module.I have all the correct parameters set in the module - Catagory, number of items to display, into text, etc. But for some reason on all pages it only displays one item?Yet the module displays correctly with all items ( well set to 4) when viewing it in any of my virtuemart pages.Head back to the home page and only one item displays - always the same one ??Any ideas from anyone ?EDIT - heres the site its on www.biorhythm-nutrition.co.uk

I went the overrides route and followed all of the instructions of what files to copy, etc and the instructions for the css4k2 plugin, but I still cannot get the background on the K2 item to change. I believe I did everything correctly, since when I went into to K2 categories, my new template showed up. thoughts?

William White said:If you want it to change in every item on your site edit k2.css and add a background css tag www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

If you want it to be different for different categories use overrides and css4k2
search here for those topics

If you want it to change in every item on your site edit k2.css and add a background css tag
www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

If you want it to be different for different categories use overrides and css4k2
search here for those topics

I have found "Login To Read Full" plugin (extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/content-restriction/5371) which works brilliantly on Joomla! articles, but appears not to on K2 items.

Would anyone be able to offer some suggestions on how to convert a standard plugin to a K2 plugin for this purpose?

@mehdif
This plugin would work for you, no need to manually add plugin tags in each article, it can be managed by category or section.

Hi Derek,

You could use tags to achieve this...

Just keep a simple category structure and add tags to your items. A click on an item would display all items with this specific tag.

Olivier

Hi Markus,

Sorry for the delay...

Unfortunately, didn't have time to correct it. I think a regex would do the job but got client requests and other devs that take all my time...

Olivier

Markus Thiel said:Did you ever fix the bug in this plugin?

Thank you William for you input. I think I might have confused the issue slightly by using term 'image gallery' as this sounds like it might be an extension (module) I am actually creating a gallery using K2 component and setting up a content page with tags etc. When I click on the category image in the generic 'books' file it takes me to a detail page where the book image is bigger. However I would like to be able to control the smaller gallery page images of books with an automatic resizer if that exists. The list images are smaller but not as small as I would like. Can these be controlled by defining the auto resize dimensions?

Sorry for any confusion
David

William White said:It is refreshing to see a post that has the image gallery "working" Looking at an image gallery i uploaded on my site, it seems that all the thumbs are resized and displayed in the same size. when you click into the gallery and use next and previous the pictures seem to display in their original settings. If you want to resize the thumbs there is a setting in sigpro to change that, but correctly sizing the images before zipping them should change the lightbox display size.

There is a layout template for image galleries paramater in sigpro and i would guess that you can use that to change the display of things in the gallery that is redered into the k2 item view. Check the forum at joomlaworks for sigpro, there may be something there

For whatever it's worth, adding such a feature would be extremely powerful, and allow ZOO type sites using K2 alone.

I would use it regularly if it were available.

My objective is to display lists of items using tags such that I can have tag expressions with ands and ors.

 

To simplify the database query, the queries do not need to be nested... Just one level of AND and OR.

 

For example, I want to say

 

show me all the iterms with foo AND (bar OR baz)

 

From a query point of view this is easy

 

(totally oversimplifed but illustrative query follows)

 

select * from item

join tags t1 on item.id = t1.itemid and t1.name = 'foo'

join tags t2 on item.id = t2.itemid and t2.name in ('bar','baz')

 

My question is:

 

How would I "plug-in" this kind of functionality into K2.

 

I have already "hacked the core of K2" as a proof of concept and I have the queries working. However I would like to implement this as a plug-in or a set of modules. But of course, since I need to hack at the model (itemlist), short of replicating all the existing model functionality in a new component, or making my own branch of K2, what other choices do I have?

 

I see how I can override exisitng funtionality with K2's plugin system, but would like to know if there are any "best practices" when it comes to overriding model functionality such as I am attempting here.

 

Suggestions or pointers to sample code welcome. Telling me there is already a component for this will earn my everlasting admiration.

 

 

Thanks for comments William, I have 2 joomla plugins that are arrays that do not explode in K2 front end, they are both similar to this {something|something|something}
I would really like to use these within the K2 extra fields type textarea, one plugin is a shopping cart the other is a contact us
I am pretty sure that JSON is responsible for stripping the html tags and have tried all the other posts about extra fields to no avail
I am using v2.3 if that makes any difference

Any help would be appreciated

That video was recorded in September 2009 and I'm guessing that he was demonstrating an older version of K2. Perhaps this is a feature request you can submit for v2.4 or even a module you can install from the JED.

I am a new user, but I saw this video of the Joomla Day - Germany where the product was being demonstrated. I fyou see the section where they discuss Tags, you can clearly see the List of Tags on the right side of the editor. This is the link or you can see it in the videos section on this site itself.
community.getk2.org/video/k2-presentation-and-more-at

Justin Herrin said:Hmmm, I'm not seeing any Tag list on the right hand side of my editor either. I'm looking in the backend when adding a new item. I checked some of my sites that run versions 2.2 and 2.3 and I don't see a Tag list. Using JCE editor if that matters.
Could you provide a screenshot and point out where it used to show for you?

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

It worked !!
Extremely grateful for the screengrabs you took. Thank you so much :-)

PS
I have two other queries, one of which I have posted on the Forum.
When I am creating a new 'item' using K2, I don't get the list of 'Tags' on the right hand side, for assigning Tags, even though I have a whole list of Tags created in the Tags section. I am attaching a screengrab.

Just to add a bump to this thread... I have the same issue as Francois (I have posted elsewhere but no responses). I need 5 columns to be displayed in the result of a tag menu link. I`ve tried with css but its not formatted well and really some changes to the php files.
I`m getting to the point where I`m going to have to pay a freelancer to do this, would just like an answer to say whether its possible.

Please help.

thanks

Paul

Davide, Thanks so much.

2) I had also URLs containing component in the index of search engines. I don't know why and when Joomla is answering with these generated URLs. One solution is to create a redirection (HTTP status 301 Moved permanently) with a SEF component. The other solution is to add Disallow: /component/ to your robots.txt for all user agents.

I had considered the same thing - using robots.txt with a wildcard - but I was concerned that I'd still be passing page rank on to the generated and indexed pages. Do you think this is a valid concern?

Regarding the SEF thing - As a longtime Mambo --> Joomla! user, I hate going 'off core'. So for SEF I've traditionally used the JoomlaAtWork Patch or just SEF mode with some adjustments.

Ultimately, my page title and article titles being the same isn't a concern - so what I've done is to use the simple 'web site name' plugin to append the site name to the page title. Works fine, and I'm seeing good indexing results from Google as I'm focusing more on unique content and trusted sources, anyway.

As far as I know I've always been online in SEF mode, so the components/k2 thing really bothers me. I may go ahead and try the robots, but I'm a bit concerned about messing up whatever generated page Google is reading (but I can't find.).

More immediately, I did setup the XMAP component on the site with the K2 plugin. Although this isn't canonical URLs yet, it does bring the site a step closer to validity in the sense of Google webmaster tools, etc.

Best,
HC

Yes. I agree. This is the case with Joomla as well as K2. Both by default handle linked PDF and print pages this way, leading to duplicate entries in the search engines. Moreover, these linked pages frequently rank higher than the article content page.

Either no follow or simply remove them in place of a widget such as AddThis.

Not as strange as it seems to be. I have two possible answers:

1) I used K2 v2.2 without a SEF component at the beginning. I used the same tags for articles in different categories. Unfortunately the SEF handling of K2 v2.2 was really not the best. I had 7 categories and 7 different URLs (beginning with each category) for each tag. Try to use a SEF component. So you can get rid of this itemlist too.
After trying ARTIO JoomSEF and sh404sef I can only recommend AceSEF with the additional K2 extension. It has a better performance and it's easier to use than sh404sef and has a better K2 extension than JoomSEF. AceSEF is only lacking in the handling of unknown/not generated URLs. It doesn't always give a 404 Not Found back.
2) I had also URLs containing component in the index of search engines. I don't know why and when Joomla is answering with these generated URLs. One solution is to create a redirection (HTTP status 301 Moved permanently) with a SEF component. The other solution is to add Disallow: /component/ to your robots.txt for all user agents.

I hope I could help you further.

Best regards

Davide

Just to clarify, as it stands now for a user, there can be three different pages referencing a user. Here is an outline of them as well as their limitations.

TAG PAGE - All references to a user via tags is listed on the more SEO rich tag page. This doesn't have a description for additional information and thereby does not process a plugin. The content that does exist on this page can generally be more numerous and targeted at the user's tag. The only way to provide additional information would be via published modules. FEATURE REQUEST - Provide the functionality to optionally include a Joomla plugin-processing description for individual tags. FEATURE REQUEST - Provide the functionality to be able to redirect the tag to a different URL, which could be used to monetize such a functionality from advertising platforms in conjunction with available analytical tracking capabilities.

USER PAGE - As a user, particularly as a content-producing user, that user is given a user page, where plugins are not processed, and the only content that exists upon that page is that which the person produces. Perhaps, an additional field can be provided to place a link to the content page referenced below, or better yet, the code could be hacked and the link to the user page instead refer to the content item. FEATURE REQUEST - - Enable the capability to process Joomla plugins within the description. FEATURE REQUEST - Enable the capability to redirect default user link to other URL.

CONTENT PAGE - As a content page dedicated to the user, it processes plugins. Therefore, there is no need to orchestrate a cumbersome array of template module positions to assist in publishing of related content items, as it can be published via plugin within content, which is much easier to manage via one content item. The drawback here is that this creates a third reference to the person, making navigation cumbersome to the website visitor seeking additional information on the person. It also create another reference for SEO purposes.

I am looking to consolidate content data use the K2 user description as this location, but the description does not process plugins, which would enable such Joomla plugin functions as tabs and slides and RSS feed plugin capabilities. I am not completely certain this will work as planned due to other limitations, but I would at least like to process Joomla plugins in categories and other K2 elements. Ideally, having the capability to have a description within a tag would probably be best, since all content tag references would be directed to this page, but that's more of a long shot.In all likelihood, if this doesn't work, I'll have use a K2 or Joomla content page as the landing page, which is what I have been doing, and integrate all other elements via Joomla plugin processing of that page and/or the standard module positions, which is more cumbersome.Thanks.