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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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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Spring Mountain Motorsports was one of the most difficult websites I have created in a while. Fancy slides, popups, scrollers and galleries are cool, but can create an updating nightmare for the average Joe. My task was to find a balance between features and administrative simplicity. One tool that helped keep all content edits...
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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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I recently ran into an issue where I needed to upload a large number of attachments to a post. Simple enough right? With K2, of course! The only problem was, the attachments needed to be sorted by name. I tried altering the order of the attachments by adding number prefixes (01_file.jpg) to the filename, but this did not work. For...
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