The default behavior for K2 is to display the read more button at all times (if selected in the parameters), even if there is no more content. This is not good for blogs where some posts may have the complete article in the listing. A quick fix for this is to edit the category_item.php file, but first you want to make sure to create...
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K2 is definitely one of my favorite Joomla! components. It does everything so well that I rarely need to make edits to anything other than template files. The one exception is creating square thumbnails. Most of my customers incapable of creating square thumbnails, so we need the system to be as user friendly as possible. This is a...
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Most of the sites we design have plenty of fancy elements, but we always end up with a simple or unstyled page navigation list. The PSD always looks unique, but the web version falls short of the designers’ expectations. This is because there are no CSS selectors on the arrows, start, prev, next, end or numbers. I probably looked...
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I recently ran into an issue where I needed to upload a large number of attachments to a post. Simple enough right? With K2, of course! The only problem was, the attachments needed to be sorted by name. I tried altering the order of the attachments by adding number prefixes (01_file.jpg)Â to the filename, but this did not work. For...
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With over 40 form components and modules available in the Joomla Forms category of the Extension Directory, how do you know which one to choose? Should you get a free or commercial component? Are the reviews accurate? Will the developer continue to improve the component? If I pay, will the commercial developer help me if I run into...
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