Adding the missing features in Joomla
Fotis Evangelou
23 June 2011
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One of the presentations that took place in JoomlaDay Greece was the case study of a very demanding K2 website, FIGHTSAGA.COM. The concept was to study this site from the design process, all the way through the development process. Our main target was to make people understand the significance of K2 as a tool to achieve such demanding websites as this one. Let's start from the beginning.
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06 October 2010
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A few reasons why you should register to the K2 Community...
Seek help for your next project
Register and get access to our ever growing Community Forum. If you speak Spanish, French, German or Turkish, there is now a dedicated board for each of those languages (and we hope to add more soon!). Come and join over 12,000 members (old and new K2 Community).You've built an extension that hooks up with K2 or designed a template that utilizes the power of K2 templating
Why not let other K2 users know about it? Submit your (free or commercial) extension or template to the K2 Extensions Directory (KED).You've built an amazing site with K2 and wanna show the world
It's no secret. Today's best looking Joomla! websites are built with the power and flexibility of K2. Built a cool K2 site? Add it to the K2 Showcase! More
01 September 2010
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You've already been there... Joomla! is a great content management system. In fact it's considered one of the best in the world. But the default article system in Joomla! is so spartan! Just a title, your content body and that's it. This is where K2 comes in.
K2 was built as a complete replacement of the default article system in Joomla!. Install it like any Joomla! extension, import your articles from the default Joomla! article system and you instantly get a host of new features for your existing content: rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, podcasts & other audio files, image galleries and attachments), hassle-free image management (uploaded item images are auto-resized to 6 configurable dimensions, either globally or per category - you can now forget about using Photoshop resizing!), comments, tagging, built-in options to extend content forms (e.g. to create product catalogs), powerful content modules fetching K2 content in any way you can imagine, frontend editing with easy to use access control settings (for content-heavy websites), powerful yet easy templating (and sub-templating) for going above the "Joomla! average", extended user profiles, user groups, blogs, a powerful plugin API to extend item/category/user forms, "drag and drop" media manager and many more!
K2 is the ideal solution for managing your content, regardless of site "size": you can use it from a small blog to a complex corporate site or even a multi-author environment (portals, magazines etc.). To provide a practical example, using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! And since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.
It's no wonder that K2 powers some the biggest and most popular Joomla! sites ever built worldwide.
These integrated features in K2 not only save site admins precious management time (from managing a dozen extensions which would otherwise be required), but they also allow for better performance.
K2 was actually built on these 4 principles: feature-rich content, ease of use, flexible templating, performance
And best of all? K2 is totally free to use!
K2 was awarded "best component" for 2010 at J and Beyond, the international Joomla! conference. It currently powers some of the most high profile / high traffic Joomla! websites worldwide.
K2 is free to use, distributed under the GNU/GPL license. It's designed and developed by the folks at JoomlaWorks, makers of fine Joomla! extensions since 2006. More
K2 was built as a complete replacement of the default article system in Joomla!. Install it like any Joomla! extension, import your articles from the default Joomla! article system and you instantly get a host of new features for your existing content: rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, podcasts & other audio files, image galleries and attachments), hassle-free image management (uploaded item images are auto-resized to 6 configurable dimensions, either globally or per category - you can now forget about using Photoshop resizing!), comments, tagging, built-in options to extend content forms (e.g. to create product catalogs), powerful content modules fetching K2 content in any way you can imagine, frontend editing with easy to use access control settings (for content-heavy websites), powerful yet easy templating (and sub-templating) for going above the "Joomla! average", extended user profiles, user groups, blogs, a powerful plugin API to extend item/category/user forms, "drag and drop" media manager and many more!
K2 is the ideal solution for managing your content, regardless of site "size": you can use it from a small blog to a complex corporate site or even a multi-author environment (portals, magazines etc.). To provide a practical example, using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! And since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.
It's no wonder that K2 powers some the biggest and most popular Joomla! sites ever built worldwide.
These integrated features in K2 not only save site admins precious management time (from managing a dozen extensions which would otherwise be required), but they also allow for better performance.
K2 was actually built on these 4 principles: feature-rich content, ease of use, flexible templating, performance
And best of all? K2 is totally free to use!
K2 Milestones
K2 has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times (from March 2009 till late November 2019), it has been translated into more than 80 languages and there are over 200 extensions listed in the Joomla! Extensions Directory already supporting K2 and more than 250 extensions in the K2 Extensions Directory (aka KED).K2 was awarded "best component" for 2010 at J and Beyond, the international Joomla! conference. It currently powers some of the most high profile / high traffic Joomla! websites worldwide.
Joomla! template providers love K2!
K2 is the de facto content extension, supported by almost all Joomla! template providers. With more than 3.5 million downloads already, it's really no wonder why!What next?
Give K2 a try and you'll instantly love it! It's easy to use and fun to develop Joomla! websites with! If you need any help or want to contribute to the project, join the ever-growing K2 Community.K2 is free to use, distributed under the GNU/GPL license. It's designed and developed by the folks at JoomlaWorks, makers of fine Joomla! extensions since 2006. More