K2 | The powerful content extension for Joomla! developed by JoomlaWorks

Nuevvo has just released Takai, the official K2 demo site, as a free Joomla!/K2 template, available for everyone to download and use.

This new iteration of the demo site has been fully modernized to be responsive, uses multi-color variations (with the option to create yours as well), is built using flexible grids, features cool off-canvas navigation (when on mobile) and uses Nuevvo's awesome no-framework template parameters & standard features.

Takai is the best starting point for everyone just joining the K2 Community.

Learn more about Takai and download the template package and the quickstart packages for both Joomla! 2.5 & 3.x at the Nuevvo website at: http://nuevvo.com/joomla-templates/free/takai More

We have just finished the migration of the K2 code repository from Google Code to Github.

The new code repo is now located at: https://github.com/joomlaworks/k2

So why this move to Github you ask? Well, Github will now make it a lot easier for casual developers (and experts of course) to submit code to the K2 code base. Previously this was a very tedious process with Google Code, such that most third-party additions or improvements were essentially completed manually via the bug tracker.

This also means that bug solving will now be a lot faster and more transparent.

Finally, since we're moving to a new code repo, you'll notice that https://getk2.org/bugtracker now properly redirects over to the Github "issues" section of the K2 project.

We also plan to utilize Github's "wiki" features to gradually have a proper and up-to-date documentation on the latest K2 code base.

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Today we're releasing K2 version 2.6.7, a maintenance update which adds minor improvements to anti-spam security and frontend ACL, while resolving the first ever VEL report for K2.
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Joomla is firmly holding its position among the world’s top 3 most popular and used CMS platforms. Although there is no one-size fits-all solution, as it’s commonly believed, Joomla is close to being one. It is easy to use for starters, but at the same time it’s well fit for complex projects and seasoned pros. The scope of design solutions and functionality available makes Joomla a frequent choice for web designers and developers.

Although Joomla itself was not meant for blogs, its powerful K2 component makes blogging and managing content more convenient than the original dashboard does. It not only offers rich content forms for articles and improved image management, but also very efficient templating system, built in comments, and front end editing - and this is just to name a few of its benefits.

Now it’s clear why there are so many people desiring to migrate to Joomla (and K2). We will show you in this post how to properly prepare for migration, carry it out and later on, polish up your new Joomla website.

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If you haven't yet understood why, let me clarify...

The K2 Community is a very popular site. It's got an Alexa rank of about 10.000 and a 7/10 Google Pagerank. It does a little over 1 million page views per month on average. Spammers love such facts. Not spam bots, actual human spammers.

The past 2 weeks we are being heavily spammed by real human beings with regular Joomla!, Twitter or Facebook accounts (you need a mobile number to get a FB account and bots don't have mobiles). Not mention this has happened again (back when we hosted the community site on the Ning platform which is supposed to have a much better platform to fight spam)... Guess when? When effing Iron Man 2 was released. Spammers love blockbusters.

So what now?
We're temporarily disabling new user signups for a few days in order to harden security measures on the site. That includes social logins as well. Fighting real human spam is a very tough situation to deal with. That means we need to add more services like Akismet and extend the integration with StopForumSpam.com to better fight these spammers that have been identified in these huge spammer databases. We also need to improve Kunena's code to allow for quick spam user banning. And since the version of Kunena we're using won't be updated anymore, we're going to get our hands dirty :)

So please bear with us for a few days until we sort the matter. It's a tough call, but I guess it's the price to pay for a popular project.

P.S. If you need to ask a support question and you are not already a K2 Community member, please use Twitter if possible to direct your questions to @k2devs - we'll do our best to answer you there.

Update on May 15th, 2013: We have re-enabled signups to the community. More

Today we're releasing K2 version 2.6.6, a bug fix update which address redirect issues with the newly introduced Advanced SEF options, plus some minor performance improvements.
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