The default behavior for K2 is to display the read more button at all times (if selected in the parameters), even if there is no more content. This is not good for blogs where some posts may have the complete article in the listing. A quick fix for this is to edit the category_item.php file, but first you want to make sure to create...
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This is a follow-up to my previous post on adding related k2 items by category. If you have not yet seen that tutorial, you will need to start there as this tutorial assumes you have already created your custom template with the necessary code to display related items by category. The K2 template system combined with the Modules...
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The latest version of K2 has a built in option to allow you to display related items by tag at the bottom of your K2 item. In my experience, most customers don’t want to bother with tags, and would rather have an automated list of related items by category. I’m sure this would be a simple update to K2, but until this...
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This tutorial will utilize the Rules and the User Stats module in order to redirect the user based on the number of logins. This could be the first login, the tenth, first ten, etc. With a slight variable tweak, this will also allow you to redirect a user based on the number of posts, days since last post, join date, and...
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K2 is definitely one of my favorite Joomla! components. It does everything so well that I rarely need to make edits to anything other than template files. The one exception is creating square thumbnails. Most of my customers incapable of creating square thumbnails, so we need the system to be as user friendly as possible. This is a...
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Most of the sites we design have plenty of fancy elements, but we always end up with a simple or unstyled page navigation list. The PSD always looks unique, but the web version falls short of the designers’ expectations. This is because there are no CSS selectors on the arrows, start, prev, next, end or numbers. I probably looked...
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