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

Do you care about SEO? Are you tired of being penalized by Google for having a duplicate content?

With our plugin you will get real canonical links for your K2 articles/tags/categories. We've tried all other solutions, tried Joomla 3 native solution, and found out that they all had some issues, as reported on various forums around the web.

We care about SEO, so we decided to develop our own plugin, to have real K2 canonical links.

Don't worry anymore if you can reach a K2 article with links like:

www.example.com/article 
www.example.com/category/article 
www.example.com/tag1/article 
www.example.com/tag2/article 

All of them will have the same canonical link!

Same goes for tags like

www.example.com/tag1 
www.example.com/category1/tag/tag1 
www.example.com/category2/tag/tag1

or categories

www.example.com/category2 
www.example.com/category1/content/category2

etc.

Even user views are supported!

Furthermore, it will detect if an article/tag/category has a direct link in the menu and use it as the canonical version, attention is payed so that the most appropriate link is chosen!

Works with Joomla 2.5 and 3.x!

Recent changes:

3.26 (2016/08/23)

* Encode canonical link parts, improvement for links with utf-8 characters

3.25 (2016/05/02)

+ One click updates using native Joomla interface

3.24 (2016/03/12)

+ Option to enable/disable redirection between slashed and non-slashed page
* K2: Do not redirect ChronoForms for K2

3.23 (2016/02/28)

* Potential infinite redirect loop for the homepage

3.22 (2016/02/27)

* Differentiate links with and without a trailing slash
+ Enable Chronoforms support in item view

3.21 (2016/02/10)

* Full PHP 7 support
* Canonical for tag with own menu would sometimes be incorrect

3.20 (2016/01/30)

+ Added support for 'latest' view

3.19 (2015/12/14)

+ Option to remove trailing slash from canonical links
+ Option to remove canonical link when on canonical page
* Don't execute the plugin if component option was overriden via POST

3.18 (2015/08/09)

* remove possible notice in error log (no negative influence otherwise)

3.17 (2015/08/03)

* make sure the plugin is activated only for html views, and not for json etc

3.16 (2015/07/31)

* fix compatility between date filtering in K2 tools module and permanent redirect

3.15 (2015/06/26)

+ Added full support with pagination for User view in K2
* Fixed a potential issue with redirection and query ignore parameter

3.14 (2015/06/19)

* do not redirect non-sef urls with raw output

3.13 (2015/06/16)

+ Added an option to ignore query in url's for permanent redirection

3.12 (2015/05/14)

+ Added support for itemllist view filtered by date using K2 Tools

3.11 (2015/05/07)

* Improved redirection mechanism

3.10 (2015/05/05)

* Improved compatibility with JotCache and System Language Filter plugin

3.9 (2015/03/26)

* Improved compatibility with Language filter system plugin

 

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2nd meet up of Israel's Joomla community, under the initiative of "Joomla veterans sharing their knowledge", was dedicated entirely to K2!
Hosted at Google's HQ in Tel-Aviv and presented by yours truely. It was a a real pleasure introducing K2 and its benefits to web developers and Joomla users alike.
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We decided to create a unique plugin to allow using Google Maps in K2 items and categories. With our demos, you will find how cool it is.

With this plugin you can:

1. Add map with pin to each K2 entry.
2. Choose the map type like roadmap, satellite etc (globally and per item).
3. Choose from 4 color sets of icons (globally).
4. Set locale like English, Russian etc. (globally).
5. Choose the zoom (globally and per item).
6. No need for API key. It runs out of the box.
7. You can now choose the type of pin type (i.e. hotel, bar, restaurant etc.) to add (we have added some most common, you may decide to use any with small modification).
8. You enter the address and the plugin will use the Google geocoding function to determine the correct place.
9. Support for displaying all items in a category into a single map with link to each entry.
10. Supports Google Street View.

Want to see it in action?

Demo – K2 Item (single entry).

Demo – K2 Category (all entries in a category).

Documentation - http://review.styleware.eu/k2-google-maps

Attention: In order to function correctly, the addresses entered in the plugin parameters per item, should be very correct and in the manner, which Google uses to determine the exact coordinates. Mistyping or wrong addresses will result into not loading the plugin for the exact K2 item. More

DM Google News Sitemap for K2 is a component that lets you provide Google News with a fully compliant sitemap, as requested by Google News to better index your site. DM Google News Sitemap pulls articles from K2 content, generating an XML file, accessible in a particular position of your site. More