We were pleasantly surprised today when we read HostGator's blog post on the top 10 Joomla! extensions, ranking K2 as #1 in their list!

HostGator is one of the largest shared hosting companies in the world (part of the Endurance Int'l Group of companies which also owns Bluehost) so it's really an honor for the K2 project to be ranked #1 Joomla! extension according to them. I don't know if this list is just a "snapshot" of what's hot in the Joomla! community or a list based on stats HostGator gathers from hosting probably thousands of Joomla! sites. In any case it's flattering :)

Check out the full list on HostGator's blog: http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/03/28/top-10-joomla-extensions/

We were actually double-flattered as JoomlaWorks since we were the only company with 2 extensions on this top 10 list. Frontpage Slideshow ranked #6 essentially declared the best slideshow system for Joomla!.

Go to K2 Parameters> Advanced Tab
Set Enforce SEF URL character replacements = Yes
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SW Tabs Pro is the next step of our uber successful tabs plugin.
The Pro version is for the users who need more control and features to display the content in well structured and user friendly tabs.

Key features in Pro version:
1. Empty tabs are hidden automatically – this feature allows you to have more dynamic content. Now if one of your items don't have extra fields, the tab with extra fields will not be showed for this item instead of displaying empty tab

2. Three free templates ready to use – Pro version come to you with 3 templates: Default – the standard template of the extension; Accordion – displaying the tabs in nice vertical accordion style;Hashtabs – every tab have hastag, so the user can share URL to specific tab

3. Module positions – Our tab plugin allows you to choose multiple module positions to be displayed in tabs. For example: You need just to add into the plugin parameter position "left" and then automatically all modules assigned to position left will be displayed in tab. Also you can create custom positions that don't exist on your template and you can add as many tabs/positions as you wish

4. Custom text tab – Just because we know that sometimes you need to add some specific text to only one item, we added text editor field, so you can type and style with HTML whatever you want.

5. Inheritance of settings – the plugin supports inheritance of the settings, so you can apply custom settings for specific category or item. For example you can hide image tab for all items, but only in one specific item you can set the image tab to be showed.

Standard functionality:
• Select on which categories to load the tabs
• Show/Hide K2 image in tab
• Show/Hide Intro and full text of the item
• Show/Hide extra fields in tab
• Show/Hide the latest items by the author in tab
• Show/Hide the details about the author in tab
• Show/Hide the related items in tab
• Show/Hide attachments in tab
• Show/Hide the video of the item in tab
• Show/Hide K2 gallery in tab
• Show/Hide K2 comments section in tab
• Show/Hide K2 plugins in separate tabs depending on their plugin event
• Show module positions as tabs
• Show custom text as tab

Only our tabs plugin will give you next FIVE unique features:
1. You can choose on which position to load the tabs only with one click (Before/After K2 Item, Before/After K2 Item text and etc.)
2. Our plugin support MVC structure and provide templating system. You can override the output of the plugin by creating a folder in your template.
3. Our tabs will not brake/mess with your K2 item overrides by your template provider. No need to paste code or edit templates to show the tabs.
4. Display modules in tabs without hacks or writing code
5. Use editor to display HTML code in tab

Droppics is the easiest image and gallery manager for Joomla. Indeed, with Droppics you get a complete solution to manage gallery AND single image on your website.

No more need to go in the component and go back in the article to manage images, you need just to create a pictures gallery (1 click), drag and drop pictures (1 click) from the article editor, and finally insert an image or a gallery (1 click).

As Droppics is fully managed from your editor, it works both frontend and backend in the same way. This system is perfect to work quickly and is easy for a beginner to manage single picture and pictures galleries.

Check the video demo here: https://vimeo.com/59671192
Is Droppics doing what I need? Ask a question on our forum.

** Gallery manager main features **

- Insert single picture or image galleries
- Multiple gallery levels
- AJAX navigation through gallery levels
- Create a picture gallery with lightbox in 3 clicks
- Joomla native ACL to limit access to images/gallery on backend ie. right to edit/modify own images or all images...
- Frontend ACL are driven directly with Joomla ACL ie. ACL applied on Joomla menu, category, module or article
- Frontend image and categories management dedicated template
- 6 amazing images and gallery themes
- 1 advanced slideshow theme with custom text area, WYSIWYG editor, link on text, transparent text background, thumbnail navigation
- Each theme can be different in each image gallery
- Drag and drop pictures to reorder pictures in the gallery
- Auto cropping function for all image in one click
- AJAX image multi-upload
- Create video gellery from Vimeo, Dailymotion, Youtibe
- Infinite scrolling to enhange your site speed on big galleries
- No need to go in the component to create pictures gallery and go back in the article
- Automatic lightbox effect on images
- Limit the size of the uploaded pictures and automatically keep an original defined size
- Auto thumbnails with a predefined size
- Display customization without CSS (rounded corners, shadow effect, margin)
- Gallery is materialized in your editor
- Regenerate pictures from original photo
- Full AJAX powered
- iPhone, I pad, Android compatible: images can be uploaded from mobile devices folders

** Single image manager main features **

- Possibility to add automatic lightbox effect
- Add custom image size from original picture in one click
- Define custom image size generated automatically on upload
- Edit online your images: crop, mirror, rotate,...
- Apply up to 30 advanced effects and filter: contrast, saturation, sepia,...
- Add internal links with menu items or article selection
- Add custom external link
- Add caption on single image
- Add a SEO file name, title, image alt on the custom image generated
- Apply border, border radius, box shadow
- Apply margin on image
- Photo alignment can be set to center/left/right position

** Integration **

- K2 dedicated plugin
- Flexicontent compatible
- Zoo compatible
- Works with all extension that allows content plugin

Stop using complex or limited extensions and get the easiest and powerful Joomla image and gallery manager now!

AutoMeta for K2 is a plugin to automatically generate meta keywords and description for K2 items from item title, category, tags and extra fields.

If you need to create a country list in K2 as a dropdown list extra filed, this will take a long time to enter countries one by one in the extra field edit form, this tutorial helps you to create such field in minutes

K2 title plugin will add an additional field "page title" into item and category of K2 component.

FlyCart is a super simple shopping cart for Joomla and K2 and comes integrated with Paypal Express checkout.  Check the demo at http://demo.flycart.org

FlyCart uses the Joomla Articles or K2 Items as the catalogue. This means most flexibility in design and layout.

FlyCart comes in-built with the Paypal Express Checkout as the Payment option. Express checkout, as the name defines, ensures a quick and safe checkout for your customers.

Some major features of Flycart includes:

- Use Joomla articles or K2 Items as products
- Paypal Express checkout
- Order management
- Tax profiles (a basic tax feature)
- Easy checkout flow
- MVC standards
- Flexible for integration of more payment gateways.
- Professional Support from developers

NOTE: Being a simple shopping cart, FlyCart DOES NOT include all the features like geozone based tax and shipping.

B2J Aquarius Layer Slider is fully configurable and responsive Joomla! 2.5/3.0 module that allows you to show K2 and Folder images on your website with cool layer effects. Create an awesome image slideshow with date, category, title, description and links of the K2 Component with Aquarius Layer Slider. It also has got an autoplay option and pagination.

This jQuery based Joomla! module moves the images horizontally in the showcase with amazing sliding effects: an image at a time. You can also use color overlay to apply the color that fits best to your website! With the help of this super customizable module, you can add unlimited number of layers. You are also able to add K2 item fields for every layer and apply your desired animation, which includes but not limited to duration and easing.

This awesome Joomla slider module is based on B2J Image Showcase, it inherits the following core functionalities:

- Thumbnail Options
- Layer slider

Note, that being feature-rich, the slideshow is still  extremely lightweight and has an amazing design and friendly back-end. 

To sum up, B2J Aquarius Layer Slider has got the following features:

- Image Source: K2 Categories, K2 Tags, Joomla Folder
- Easy customization
- Cross-browser
- Responsive design
- Image and Thumbs fully resizable
- Use of jQuery and CSS Animation
- Full width and Responsive Modes

Make your website outstanding with B2J Aquarius Layer Slider!
If you have encountered a problem with B2J Aquarius Layer Slider, feel free to submit a ticket or ask your questions on B2J Forum.

When i look at K2 forum and another forums, i always saw people talking about K2 approval process, so I decided to develop one extension to help people. This plugin works in the front end and back-end and for 3 different user groups:
1. Users that can submit items and can't publish.
2. Users that can manage items and can't publish.
3. Admin that have full access on item publishing.

• if user submit item in front end, this plugin can send notification to email that defined in admin section of plugin.
• if user try to open submitted article in back-end, there is an option to approve or reject this article and notify to article submitter by comment.
• if approve select, plugin change ownership of selected item to selected admin and send email to notify.
• if reject select, plugin send email notify to one of authors that selected from drop-down.

So with this three step admin not need to check for spelling and grammatical error because manager do this kind of staff and admin just publish item.

Notification : when user is in admin group and select reject, plugin load list of managers in drop-down and if user is manager an chose reject, plugin load list of authors. Also if reject select, article automatically will be unpublished.