Start your update engines! K2 v2.5.6 is now available to download.

If you're in Joomla! version 1.7 (what, you still haven't upgraded to 2.5?) to version 2.5, you can update from 2.5.5 directly via the built-in Joomla! updater. If you're on Joomla! 1.5 or you use a version prior to K2 v2.5.5, just grab the zip file and upload on top.

There are no template changes since 2.5.4 so you can safely upgrade with no need to check you MVC overrides on your template.

This is a maintenance release. Compared to v2.5.5, we fixed warnings/bugs/annoyances/gremlins mainly appearing in Joomla! 2.5.

Now available for Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3.x.

This module exceeds by far the K2 Content module in options and functionality! Display News for K2 is integration in one tool all that are need for content publishing: miscellaneous orderings (8 types), reach filtering and flexible output (by user defined template). This module also may be used for show content of specific author, news of today and many others.

Content items can be positioned vertically and horizontally. User defined format is the best feature of this module. You may compile output from content item elements and html tags. It gives you ultimate flexibility for content presentation. Also module supports different style families: content items styles, tables styles and Display news dedicated styles. For K2 we added specifically the (multiple select) nested categories as well as select from the Tags options. Also you have now the option to show the Category image: yes/no

This video will show you how to place related K2 items by category in a module position.

This is part 2 of 2. Before moving forward with this tutorial, you will need to watch part 1. http://www.slurpitup.com/joomla/how-to-add-k2-related-items-by-category-as-a-module

This is the new K2 demo site.

After almost 3 years of the previous design, it was time for an update. A more "practical" update, almost a real-world site. And this is the result :)

As we announced on Twitter some months ago and just recently, this new demo website will be fully open-sourced so that people can learn by example. But there's another reason as well... Once the site is released as an installable package with its K2 setup and sample data ready, we will launch a small contest for the best redesigns of this website. The goal is simple. Keep the same sample data and work your magic. This contest is obviously targeted at experienced designers/developers and template clubs. The best 3 contributions will also be available on demo.getk2.org along with full credits to the designers/developers involved. K2 pros get ready!

BT Slideshow Pro is a perfect slideshow module for Joomla. It allows you to easily display images with many flash type animations done in Javascript. You can upload images, get images from different sources as Flickr Album, Joomla Folder, Picasa Album, Phoca Gallery...

How to make checkboxlist - inspired by Jordan Ivanov:

It's a hack because need to modify K2 and Joomla! core files. All files are attached to this post, all changes are commented in files.

1. In  /libraries/joomla/html/html/select.php after line 125
2. In  /administrator/components/com_k2/models/extrafield.php  in lines: 60, 298, 224
3. In  /administrator/components/com_k2/views/extrafield/view.html.php in line 47
4. In  /administrator/components/com_k2/views/extrafields/view.html.php in line 72
5. In  /media/k2/assets/js/k2.js in line 523
6. In  /components/com_k2/models/item.php in line 1035
7. In  /administratorllanguage/en-GB/en-BG.com_k2.ini in line 445

Unpack in some safe place and check all changes after that upload all files into your server.

(K2 team note: we highly discourage hacking K2 or Joomla! core - use at your own risk)

K2 is a powerful extension that allows for incredible control of your Joomla content. This module is a modification to the standard K2 content display module. Rather than define the content you want to display in the module, this module pulls the item data from the current item being displayed.

This allows you to expand your layout options since you can now display part of the item content in the main content display area and other bits of content in the module positions. You can even load more than one module per page to deliver highly complex layouts with the content exactly where you want it!

The module supports multiple instance on a single page so putting item content exactly where you want it is no problem. K2 Plugins are triggers so the module can also be used to display the K2Mart buy now box in any module position.

A few months ago we launched the revamped K2 website at getk2.org which integrated a new Community forum, located at https://getk2.org/community.

We decided to move to an "all Joomla!" solution for more flexibility and better integration with the new features launched for the K2 site, like the ability to submit extensions or templates for the new K2 Extensions Directory. This new K2 Community has grown tremendously these few months and it's continuing to grow day by day.

So it's now time to shut down the OLD K2 community site at community.getk2.org, which was hosted on the (proprietary & restrictive) Ning platform. We plan to take down the OLD K2 community located at community.getk2.org on March 30th 2012.

Get the site you deserve

So, you’ve made the mistake of choosing the wrong CMS in the past? Well, don’t worry, now you have the option to switch to Joomla without a lot of complications. With CMigrator you can import your categories, posts and pages from Wordpress directly into Joomla with just few clicks.

Features

• Migration from Wordpress or Drupal
• Category import
• Content import
• Import into K2
• Tags Import (only for K2)
• Keeps the relations between categories (nested categories) and content

This plugin pulls together K2 and Widgetkit displaying K2 content with Widgetkit.
1. install and activate the plugin located in the system folder
2. go to the Widgetkit component and click on "Use K2"
3. you will be presented with the already familiar options of:
3.1. which contents to select from K2 and what part of those contents
3.2. how to display the selected contents in Widgetkit
This is the first release and various additional integrations are on there way soon.
This is part of the k2fields effort to be released soon, where we are trying to pull together the best of available extensions to a whole.