I believe this started happening with the latest k2 upgrade. I have20 + menu links set up to display articles with a particular k2 tags. All of a sudden 3 of these menu links are throwing a 500 error. The rest work fine. They are all going to the same k2 category. I have double checked that the settings are the same. Turning on error reported does not give me anything more than the 500. I put a ticket into the host and they cannot get a better error message and they advised I put a ticket into k2. I tried changing the layout parameters from default to most recent as described in one of the threads in this forum but no joy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I believe this started happening with the latest k2 upgrade. I have20 + menu links set up to display articles with a particular k2 tags. All of a sudden 3 of these menu links are throwing a 500 error. The rest work fine. They are all going to the same k2 category. I have double checked that the settings are the same. Turning on error reported does not give me anything more than the 500. I put a ticket into the host and they cannot get a better error message and they advised I put a ticket into k2. I tried changing the layout parameters from default to most recent as described in one of the threads in this forum but no joy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: ALSO whenever I try to submit this with a hyperlink to a page that is getting the error, this post gets a rejected saying potentially spam.

The plugin is still being executed in the metatag.
All tags are stripped in K2's metatags github.com/getk2/k2/blob/master/components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php#L593

So I think you need to address this issue to the extension's developers.

Hi William,
Thank you for quick respone.

I checked the module as you wrote,
k2 search and smart search are active.
>> NO result >> see screenshot-1 , screenshot-2 .
Although rhe tag 'bi' os exist and records are available

At the same page I have rssearch - find smoothly.

Regarding the smart search - I thought it supports several search conditions, based on AND OR rtc.
Is it available when it works?

regards,
Udi

Now it is before K2: thirdsundemo.com/test-item

Thanks :)
I will try to recreate the issue since this is really odd.

Currently K2 is first. Putting the shortcode plugin first results in even worse result - basically breaks all CSS.

I can resolve this by manually setting the meta description - or if there are enough characters before the shortcodes, but still presents an issue and I'm holding off upgrading sites as I'm not sure what will happen with other shortcodes or plugins.

Sure, here is the dropbox link to exported system info in text format

www.dropbox.com/s/aveeq6isj7xarxl/systeminfo-2017-08-24T03_04_34%2B03_00.txt?dl=0

I 'm happy that you got it sorted.
Just out of curiosity can you share your system's info?

Hi, I found the problem.

System / Control Panel / K2 Parameters / Layout & view options for tag listings

if set to Default - causing the problem. Setting to Most Recent First resolves it.
I tested with both SEO enabled and disabled and all tags in both tag cloud and articles seems working properly now!

Once again Default option worked perfectly on localhost, but not on remote server.

Thank you for your input!

No, SEF status does not affect tags, they do not work in both SEF/SEO on and off cases.

We use Zengrid framework from Joomlabamboo quite a bit - one thing it has is a shortcode to create column layouts.

I'm not sure if this is a K2 issue, or a Zengrid issue, but the latest update to K2 seems to have changed how it generates automatic meta data and has a conflict with the shortcode markup. The generated HTML does not get stripped and as result something like this appears in source:

<meta property="og:description" content="<div class="zen-row no-row-margin clearfix"><div class="zg-col zg-col-6">

This breaks the site layout as it leaves open div tags and meta tags

This never happened with previous versions of K2.

I did try re-ordering the K2 and Zen Shortcode plugins - it changed things, but didn't fix them. Can see here: thirdsundemo.com/test-item

I have a lot of sites using the Zengrid shortcode AND K2 so this presents a big issue for us. Any ideas?

Are the same tags working when SEF are off (on your live site)?

By default the title cannot accept HTML tags.
You can use an extrafield in order to use custom HTML markup, another approach would be this www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/40254-how-to-stop-k2-item-title-from-stripping-html-tags

william white wrote: Looking at your question im sure you must have an item with the tag Норвегия assigned to it.
I have been working with tags lately and will set up a tag cloud with 3.7.5 and 2.8 and see what happens later in the day

Thank you for the quick response!
Yes, absolutely. Norway (Норвегия) is the third most frequent one - 29 items. Please try to hit Норвегия here
test.freediving.ee/index.php/video/71-ryazantsev

See figure attached, I also highlighted the Menu how to get to this page.
imgur.com/3LNuZzA

In fact, the problem is not only with tag cloud, but with all К2 tags in general. I think even those tags, which are displaying some results, are not displaying all of them. I can provide access to backend, it is all in English there :)

PS. I suspect it has something to do with tag frequency. I just removed some articles and Норвегия is now displaying properly (it became more frequent tag), but two last ones - Статьи and Фридайвинг - are still missing.

PPS. And I am not getting any error messages with Maximum report setting.

Looking at your question im sure you must have an item with the tag Норвегия assigned to it.
I have been working with tags lately and will set up a tag cloud with 3.7.5 and 2.8 and see what happens later in the day

Hello,

I have the following problem - the majority of my tag links are not working and displaying blank pages. Only a couple of most frequent tags are displaying correct outputs. Tags are not working in both K2 Tools tag cloud and articles. The problem persist in joomla 3.7.4 and 3.7.5 and K2 2.8.0 and the latest 2.7.x version. I tried to turn off all possible plugins and modules - it does not help. I changed between basic protostar and yootheme everest templates - does not help. The problem is present with both enabled and disabled SEO-friendly urls in the site configuration, and both disabled and enabled 'advanced SEF for K2 URLs'. I also have tags defined in Metadata for Categories and Menus. I cleaned this meta for one category and menu, to see if it makes any difference - it is not.

I made my site on localhost (with SEO-friendly urls turned OFF) and deployed it to server using akeeba. Surprisingly, everything is working as it should on localhost, but not remotely. I played with akeeba settings and restored multiple times without luck. I am restoring into empty directory and sql database, so there should be no problems with preexisting files. Also, one of my test-uploads worked properly, and I cannot recall any significant changes since then! I have no idea how to fix it, can you please give me some help?

PS. I recall that I had a strange glitch on my localhost during development - I was not able to add tags, there were not autocompleting, but after restarting browser all was back to normal.

The site is test.freediving.ee
There is a tag cloud on the bottom left. I am displaying only top 5 tags. Out of them, only Подводная Охота and Видео work, others are not working. The total number of tags on the site is around 90. The problem exists with both english and russian tags.

I will be very grateful if you can help me, I do not really want to repeat the development from scratch and add again all my articles. Thanks in advance!

I need to highlight the cogs of some materials in bold type

Krikor wrote: You can use the same gallery with pretty much any template across your K2 items.
The only drawback is that you need to use the manual gallery snippet.

Hi.
I do not understand if the drawback is for using the same gallery in different k2 items or for setting a layout.
If I install the Pro version, can I use the "image gallery" tab (in the k2 item edit page) to link the desired gallery and set the chosen layout?
Moreover, as far as I understand, if I use the snippets I can only write inside the "gallery" tag the name or the link of the gallery: how is it possible to set a layout?
In the feature list of the pro extension, it is stated that the Pro extension is fully integrated with k2: could you please tell me what is the difference of integration method between the free Simple Image Gallery and the commercial Pro extension?
Please help me clarify all my doubts. Thank you

Hi

I'm having a problem with OG tags.

Just trying to fumble my way around what the problem could be.

Just checking the update and I see that Josetta - K2 Categories and Josetta - K2 Items have not updated since version 2.6.9 Is this correct?

I have updated to 2.8.0 via the automatic update in Joomla and by downloading and installing, but still both these folders are 2.6.9

Could this be a problem?

Many thanks

Jo

Okay, this problem has now existed for over a week. I have updated K2 and still the problem persists.

I have tried unpublishing every Item except the one I want to promote on Facebook, and still in shows the OG tags for the wrong article, and now one that isn't even published.

Can anyone think of anywhere I should be looking to try and resolve this problem?

I am getting to the point of thinking I have to rebuild my whole site, and I really don't want to have to do that.

I would really appreciate some help.

Many thanks
Jo