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This component is a must in many of my sites, and now there are many extensions for it.

I use it for blogs. I would prefer joomla-k2 than wordpress. K2 is very powerful component, I think that I have used only the 30-40% of it.

Thanks to Joomlaworks.

Very useful component when you want to create advanced content with parameters instead of using templates for Joomla Articles. Component should have more types of custom fields and nice manager for images uploaded to gallery to be excellent.

I'm a site builder and I use this extension on all of my sites.

This was exactly what i was looking for and it's free! i design plenty of magazine portals and this by far was the best....there's only one problem! 95% of my site using k2 have bugs after i submitted over 200 articles this is really frustrating me because i love this component and now i'm limited!

All the best.
Can´t find words how useful is this extension.

Code is very easy to read, and tweak. Template overide is excellent. Wish only this onecssperK2category would be a core feature. So we don´t depend of one person outside developers circuit.

Then, i know that primary goal is to make K2 fast, pageload, queries, etc..And i see many "open doors" to insert a plenty of new options and functionalities in K2. Just to play with settings for images (per one category) is enormous.

Good work, very good work.

Very good extension, but version for joomla 1.6 is not available. Some bugs are if you use this in combination with sef components, i test with many - every time problems with encoding of links to tags in k2.

i've been using K2 in most of my projects; from blog to staff directory. it's kinda hard to use at first, but once your know the basic concept, you can do so many things with this component. it's far from perfect, but it's the best cck for joomla.

With some programming skills you can really make the most out of Joomla with this component!

Joomlaworks has to be one of the worst in the community for support. I own both their frontpage slideshow and their simple image gallery pro and I use K2. That being said I have had problems with all three over the past few years and their support has been absolutely terrible. If any forum post get answered they don't get answered well or in a timely fashion. This isn't good for live sites, that develop errors with new versions. K2 has some good features, but for the most part it is re-inventing the joomla content wheel. The front end editing leaves quite a bit to be desired, and they didn't put a k2 prefix on all their css styles so sometimes it will conflict with templating as well. Really Joomlaworks is the place to stay away from as even paid support is terrible.

It's really very excellence extension for joomla, easy to use and it works great.

This extension has made the article creation process easier for my clients to understand and accomplish. When they take over the management of their sites, they are delighted to discover how easy it is to add articles and images.

This is also an extremely solid extension, not flimsy or buggy.

K2 is a powerfull component wich allow you to do nearly anything on your Joomla website. Thanks to Joomlaworks team for their job and all the community who has really help the newbies i am. Their's also a lot of plugin to give more possibilities to this component. Just be patient, the "how to" is perhaps for good skill webmaster, but when you get it, it is alright...

thank you very easy to use and exceptional work

Pros: Looks neat on the backend, has LOTS of features and easy to post an article.

Cons: Frontend is impossible to post an article to. Backend is impossible to understand, find what you're looking for, and basically do what you want to do. There are no clear explanations in the admin, or in the documentation. There's really no easy way to get started, there's a very time consuming learning curve involved. After a year, I'm still not sure what I'm doing!

Level of Support Received: 0
Why? Because you cannot Register on the K2 forums, their system is broken (email confirmation does not work) and you cannot get Help unless you have a Ning site, I guess, because I was unable to use their support form... No way to reach the developer.

Ease of usage and deployment: Extremely Hard. You need to be a programmer, and a Joomla expert. This does not work for new Joomla users, it's not recommended for designers who do not use Joomla constantly. This is way harder than WordPress for instance (my recommendation).

Purpose of using the extension: To allow Admins and Registered Users to Blog. So far, I've only been able to get the Admin going. Frontend users are not able to save entries, the internal link within the Blog Article form is broken, so the system is not fully functional.

Level of Difficulty: Pretty High...

My Experience Level with Joomla and Web Technologies: I have only built 2 Joomla sites in the past because it's too hard for my clients to learn, but I have 13 years of website design experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Website Design and Development.

This of course is an excellent component. Once used to it, it makes adjustments to your site very versatile. However, take some time to learn how to use it (let's say the dark days between Christmas and New Year's eve.. :-) ) so you get accustomed to working with the component. I am sure that in the last days I only got a glimpse of what it can do. And yes, documentation is not very extensive. However, in the Forum (community.getk2.org) you can get a lot of 'answers'. If only someone would convert all these forum discussion to a nice set of documentation.
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Hello,

The K2 component is of course quite good. Because of the abundant features, one has to go through the documentation, available on http://simon.getk2.org/k2-documents. However, I am unable to access the documentation. Clicking on the various links on this page does not take me anywhere. The "Register" link does not take me to the registration page, where one is conventionally asked for email address, etc. Instead, it recurses back to the same page. Having the documentation easily accessible would be a great help.

wow, what a useful component to empower Joomla! Easy to understand and install, has a lot of settings.

It took me a while to add k2 to my site but i read many thins so i decided to add it ... its stunning. i am very pleased but the thing is that I will love the tags to be in spanish and i dont know how to doit yet (please take in consideration than i am a joomla baby)

Thanks to the developers. Adjusting CSS was very easy to fit our needs. Purchased the Joomla Works Image Gallery Pro to go along with this.

Only suggestion would be to display image gallery next to main image at the top instead of at the bottom.

But, either way, our client's project portfolio blows their competition away with this great component!

When a front end user logs in and tries to add a new item they are sent to a K2 Edit Item screen. After creating that item, they can Save but they are still stuck on the same screen with no way to close it. They have to click the browser's back button to get out of the edit screen. This is unintuitive and frustrating for front end clients.

Its weird because all the back-end Save and Cancel buttons also "Close" the current screen, why would the front-end buttons not function the same?

According to the K2 forums, the developers have decided that this is not a bug but an "annoyance". Guess what is "annoying".... when you get a call from a client with Publisher permissions that see dozens of duplicate new items submitted for their review. I later figured out it is because the front-end editor doesn't know that his new item was saved because the screen does not close and there is not a confirmation. So he usually will try to resubmit the item again. Multiply that by dozens of editors clicking save over and over and over.... ouch! That's is not an "annoyance" that is a broken submission system.