ByBlacks.com is Canada's #1, top ranked, award winning online magazine focused exclusively on Black Canadians, with an events listing, jobs listings and business directory.

The site's content is fully powered by K2 and allows for easy third-party content contributions & opinion.

ByBlacks.com has a green score (passed) on Core Web Vitals Assessment since it was re-launched in 2022, despite being a heavy content site, by employing modern development techniques and sticking to decades-long performance guidelines.

K2 v2.11 is now available to download for Joomla versions 1.5 to 3.x. This release adds new features, improves existing features, resolves various bugs and adds PHP 8 compatibility.

If you're also wondering what's up with Joomla 4, read on...

4SEO is a modern, integrated Search Engine Optimization solution for Joomla.

It constantly analyzes your site to detect changes, identifies important pages, adds meta and structured data, optimizes for social sharing and builds your sitemap. It also mesures actual Google Core Web Vitals speed information.

4SEO also provides you with tools for every day SEO work: list of broken links, redirections, content replacement, robots.txt...

Super easy install and setup
You can easily setup in minutes and publish at any website.
NO CODING REQUIRED

Strings customizable
You can customize the text within the language files

Well-commented
Every parameter is explained, just customize in minutes

Exclude Categories
If you do not want to show in some categories, simply exclude them

Exclude Articles
If you do not want to show in some content, simply exclude them

Exclude Menu Items
If you do not want to show for some menu items, simply exclude them

Easy add custom css
You can easily add custom css code from plugin parameters

Make your K2 content more interactive for the visitor!

The Emoji Reactions plugin will help you collect visitor reactions for each K2 Item.

Super easy install and setup
You can easily setup the plugin in minutes at any Joomla website.
NO CODING REQUIRED

Well-commented
Every parameter explained, customize the plugin in minutes.

Enable Cookie Check
You can enable cookie check and let only 1 submission per device.

Enable IP Address Check
You can enable IP Address check and let only 1 submission per IP Address.

Exclude K2 Items
You can disable the plugin for selected K2 Items.

Exclude Categories
You can disable the plugin for articles or entire categories.

Exclude Menu Items
You can disable the plugin for selected Menu Items.

Hide or show at mobile devices
100% responsive on mobile devices - you can optionally hide it at mobile devices.

Do you get opinion of your visitors about your website content?
Listen to your visitors and make your website a better place!

Generate leads together with visitor opinions.
Make your website more interactive, generate leads at the end of every content of your website!

Do not pay subscription to external websites and servers!
Your visitors are worth to keep on your side! When you use that HTML Plugin, you keep the data on your side. You do not pay extra subscriptions to the 3rd party websites!

Joomla Module + Content Plugn + K2 Content Plugin

You will get Module and 2 Plugins!

Super easy install and setup
You can easily setup in minutes and publish at any website.
NO CODING REQUIRED

Fully customizable!
Fully customizable via self-defined parameters!

Well-commented
Every parameter is explained, just customize in minutes

Save Submission
You can save submission with a) Sender IP Address b) Sent URL c) Submitters message d) Unix Timesamp e) Email address

Submission Results Board
You can view the submission after you login as a super user, underneath every content ( article ). If you use the module, you see at underneath the module.

Request Email Address
You can ask the email address of submitter, optionally.

Cookie enable / disable
You can set cookie and disable multiple submissions

Enable - Disable Reset Button
Visitors can change their vote easily with a reset button.

Excluded Joomla Articles
You can disable at selected Joomla Articles.

Excluded K2 Items
You can disable at selected K2 Items.

Excluded Menu Items
You can disable at selected Menu Items.

Ol Timeline displays K2 items from one or many categories on a vertical timeline.

• Show title
• Title word limit
• Show introtext
• Introtext word limit
• Show read more
• Show date
• Show category
• Show author
• Show Share Buttons

• Round border - Yes / No
• Custom text color
• Custom background color

For default style optional reveal on scroll down with two styles - Light or Dark

• Reveal - Yes / No
• Reveal image effect - Light / Dark
• Reveal Text effect - Light / Dark

The module has 5 effects and displays K2 items, articles and custom items.

K2 Items

• Source - K2 categories / Custom K2 Items
• Category filter - All / Select
• K2 Categories - Select
• Fetch items from children categories
• Count Items
• Featured Items - Show / Hide / Show only Featured Items
• Time range (if ordering is set to 'most popular' or 'most commented')
• Items ordering
• Category filter - Yes/No
• Custom k2 Items
• Add Items
• Items settings
• Image Size - XSmall, Small, Medium, Large, XLarge
• Show title - Yes/No
• Show date - Yes/No
• Show category - Yes/No
• Show author - Yes/No

Style settings

• Height at your choice
• Fade on scroll down
• Slider effect - Fade, slide, cube, coverflow and flip
• Dark layer - Yes/No
• Keyboard control - Yes/No

K2 v2.10.3 is now available to download for Joomla versions 1.5 to 3.x. This is a maintenance & bugfix release, which refines the backend user interface (building upon the changes that were introduced with v2.10.0 to v2.10.2), improves client-size (frontend) caching & resolves broken auto-generated feeds URLs.

We urge everyone using K2 v2.7.0+ to upgrade to this new release.

Display K2 items, joomla articles, or custom items in a filterable gallery.

• Source - K2 categories / Custom K2 Items
• Category filter - All / Select
• K2 Categories - Select
• Fetch items from children categories
• Count Items
• Featured Items - Show  / Hide / Show only Featured Items
• Time range (if ordering is set to 'most popular' or 'most commented')
• Items ordering
• Category filter - Yes/No
• Custom k2 Items
• Add Items
• Items settings
• Image Size - XSmall, Small, Medium, Large, XLarge
• Show title - Yes/No
• Show date - Yes/No
• Show category - Yes/No
• Show author - Yes/No