Ruth Cheesley

Getting started with K2

What is K2• Content Construction Kit

(CCK)

• Extends what Joomla! articles can do

• Allows cool features– Tags– Per-category styling– Close control of layout– Template overrides

What version to use

Joomla! 1.5• Stable release

• Lots of extensions

• Lots of plugins

• Lots of template overrides

• OK Support

Joomla! 1.6/7• SVN release

• Not many modules

• Even fewer plugins!

• Overrides need tweaks

• Not much support!

Key concepts

• You don’t need Section + Categories

• You can use tags to link related items

• Images added via K2 are automagically resized to the required dimensions

• You can use extensions to create per-category styling

Getting your head around the settings

How to show stuff!

• Category Item Layout

• Category View Options

• Item Image Options

• Item View Options in Category Listings

• Item View Options

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Category Item Layout

Some cool plugins and modules

• Css4k2 (http://www.jiliko.net)

• K2 Dynamap (http://nick.texidor.com)

• K2 Multi Notifier (http://k2joom.com)

• Land of Coder (http://www.landofcoder.com)

• DM Digital (http://joomlaextensions.dmdigital.it)

Example sites• www.able2uk.com

• www.rsnonline.org.uk

• www.suffolkdofe.co.uk

• www.viryatechnologies.com

• www.prhengland.co.uk