K2 
Version
2.6.5 (last update on Feb 9, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
228
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
14 April 2009
Uses Updater?
- Yes
--- WHAT IS K2? ---
K2 provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!
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!
Give K2 a try and you'll instantly love it! It's easy to use and fun to develop websites with! If you need any help or want to contribute to the project, join us at the K2 community.
--- FEATURES ---
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.
K2 offers as standard:
- nested-level categories (no section/category restrictions)
- commenting, integrated with reCaptcha
- tags
- item image (useful for articles/catalogs)
- image galleries
- videos
- attachments
- user pages (author blogs/user profiles)
- ACL for content
- Unique plugin system to extend item, category and user forms
- ajax-based frontend editing
- ajax-based comments moderation
- Google AJAX Search integration
- Native JSON/JSONP content output
- Native advanced SEF options (added in K2 v2.6.4+)
K2 fully supports the Joomla! API, which means all Joomla! plugins will function properly within the K2 component & modules, either in the frontend or backend.
--- AMAZING PERFORMANCE ---
ImpactWrestling.com, OnSports.gr, Gorillaz.com, Groupama-Transport.com, Harvard, Cloud.com (Citrix), the High Court of Australia, MTV Greece, Jaguar Greece are just some of the thousand "big sites" around the world, fully powered by K2.
--- REQUIREMENTS & LICENSE ---
To utilize the built-in video & gallery features you need to install AllVideos (free) & Simple Image Gallery Pro, both provided by JoomlaWorks.
K2 is developed by JoomlaWorks & licensed under the GNU/GPL v2 license.
--- WHAT NEXT? ---
Try K2! Install it, hit the "import" button to bring your Joomla! articles inside K2, start playing with the component to see the flexibility it provides first-hand. Moreover? You no longer need a dozen of components and even more modules to do things like run a news site or a blog. Drupal and Wordpress have certainly met their match now! ;)
--- USEFUL LINKS ---
Visit the K2 website & community: http://getk2.org
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Very simple, K2 can do things that Joomla alone just can't. Endless category nesting, endless Template and Module overrides, integrated tag system to select across categories regardless of their inheritance structure, ACL not limited to 7 user groups, but endless groups and object related, just to mention a few. Newbies may get depressed at first ( and write some bad reviews ), having a decent PHP and HTML-CSS base is the only way to understand how amazing and powerful this extension is, and never build another site without it ( it just wouldn't make sense ).
Learning curve: Not so easy, but trust me, it's worth every hour you spend on it. For those who think there is too much stuff , too complex, in no time you'll find out how many things are still missing.
Thank you, you are a great team.
Learning curve: Not so easy, but trust me, it's worth every hour you spend on it. For those who think there is too much stuff , too complex, in no time you'll find out how many things are still missing.
Thank you, you are a great team.
This is a wonderful extension...the built in commenting and user management and attachments and extra fields are just what I've been looking for. At the last minute on completing a project, I switched back to Joomla core. There is a pecular url problem that I could not find a satisfactory answer for on any forum. I am using basic Joomla SEF, and depending on where I clicked an item link in my site, it made different urls for the item. Example: Clicking an item link from my home page went to "mysite.com/home/item" . Clicking on item from my Article category went to "mysite.com/article/item". (these are abbreviated for example only). If I am missing something, please let me know. Consistent URLs are important to me, but maybe I am wrong. Thanks. It's a great extension and was not hard to figure out.
Owner's reply
K2 uses Joomla's built in mechanism to produce the SEF URLs. What you're noticing however is links being created from content which is not assigned to some menu item. If your site has a solid menu structure reflecting most of your K2 categories, then all your links will follow a specific naming pattern. It's all a matter of setting up your content. Additionally, you can use a component like sh404SEF to produce even better URLs regardless of menu structure.
it is good component with many features specially for blogging. I moved my blog articles from standard Joomla Categories to K2 Categories as Blog Items because K2 provides more features for photo editing, K2 tools have calendar & Tag-Clouds features too.
Only issue I am facing is that essential core Joomla Blogging Plugins like XML-RPC Joomla, XML-RPC Blogger API do not support K2 at all.
even some third part Plugins like XML-RPC-metaWeblog API don't work with K2. So I can't Post to my Joomla Blog from other services if my joomla Blog is published as a K2 item. Even ScribeFire (Firefox add on)does not pick K2 items unless it is publish as a standard Joomla Article.
is there any solution to this...
Only issue I am facing is that essential core Joomla Blogging Plugins like XML-RPC Joomla, XML-RPC Blogger API do not support K2 at all.
even some third part Plugins like XML-RPC-metaWeblog API don't work with K2. So I can't Post to my Joomla Blog from other services if my joomla Blog is published as a K2 item. Even ScribeFire (Firefox add on)does not pick K2 items unless it is publish as a standard Joomla Article.
is there any solution to this...
Owner's reply
I think the best thing to do here is just ask the developers of those extensions to add support for K2 :)
I was more looking for something that was going to integrate with Joomla's content items--not be a CMS all in and of itself. I simply want to add a few fields to Joomla's content items, not have to essentially use a 3rd party to manage my content. What's the point of installing Joomla at this point? If you're managing everything with K2.
Also, it lets you add extra fields, but it doesn't seem to let you add extra image fields that I can tell.
Also, it lets you add extra fields, but it doesn't seem to let you add extra image fields that I can tell.
K2 is the component that brings Joomla! to the game for great blogging and content management.
Works smooth and has lost of uses on article display.
I hope this is the beginning and will get better.
If I could have a wishlist I would like to have on mouse over effects over the category item display..
Hope the next version have it out of the box!
Works smooth and has lost of uses on article display.
I hope this is the beginning and will get better.
If I could have a wishlist I would like to have on mouse over effects over the category item display..
Hope the next version have it out of the box!
As Joomla user of just under a year, I've been looking for a comparable extension that would give me the function of my beloved CCK in Drupal. After trying several, including JSE, Zoo, Flexi... I came upon K2. I was using Frontpage Slide Show in Drupal. Now I'm using it in Joomla, as well as AllVideos, Tabs and Slides, UCD and Simple Image Gallery. So nnedless to say, I knew anything from JoomlaWorks would be awesome!
K2 does have a little learning curve when compared to Drupal's CCK, but nothing major. You have to learn all extensions, right? Anyway, it does what I needed. Installs perfectly. Setup and config isn't terribly difficult and the results are fantastic.
I could go into deep details, but why? Let me just assure you that if you're looking for the best CCK mod, especially if you've used Drupal's awesome CCK, then K2 will make you smile!
Way to go JoomlaWorks!!!
K2 does have a little learning curve when compared to Drupal's CCK, but nothing major. You have to learn all extensions, right? Anyway, it does what I needed. Installs perfectly. Setup and config isn't terribly difficult and the results are fantastic.
I could go into deep details, but why? Let me just assure you that if you're looking for the best CCK mod, especially if you've used Drupal's awesome CCK, then K2 will make you smile!
Way to go JoomlaWorks!!!
Why does it rock?
It rocks because it works out of the box.
It rocks because it does what it says.
It rocks because it doesn't stand alone on its island and integrates more and more with other extensions (and templates).
It rocks because the Joomla! community said so (JandBeyond J.O.S.C.A.R.).
It rocks because it was built to attend 'real people' needs.
It rocks because the end users (who actually update the site) love it... because it makes their lives easier.
And last but not least...
It rocks because it has a great team behind it (and that count tons when you pick an extension as powerful as this one).
It rocks because it works out of the box.
It rocks because it does what it says.
It rocks because it doesn't stand alone on its island and integrates more and more with other extensions (and templates).
It rocks because the Joomla! community said so (JandBeyond J.O.S.C.A.R.).
It rocks because it was built to attend 'real people' needs.
It rocks because the end users (who actually update the site) love it... because it makes their lives easier.
And last but not least...
It rocks because it has a great team behind it (and that count tons when you pick an extension as powerful as this one).
If you're not serious about content management, don't even download K2, it's not for you. If you are and you're willing to invest a few hours today to save weeks of your time in the long run, K2 is perfect for you.
K2 is one of the most mature content management components for Joomla!. It does have a steep learning curve, mostly due to the sheer amount of options (and a somewhat disorganised documentation section). However, investing time in it will most certainly pay back! Each of those daunting options will quickly become your best ally to building a news site, your documentation section, a downloads directory, an e-shop, ... You name it, K2 can do it!
I was a skeptic when I first tried it. Now, I can't imagine building any kind of site without K2. The fact that this extension won the J.O.S.C.A.R. award at J and Beyond 2010 just speaks for itself.
K2 is one of the most mature content management components for Joomla!. It does have a steep learning curve, mostly due to the sheer amount of options (and a somewhat disorganised documentation section). However, investing time in it will most certainly pay back! Each of those daunting options will quickly become your best ally to building a news site, your documentation section, a downloads directory, an e-shop, ... You name it, K2 can do it!
I was a skeptic when I first tried it. Now, I can't imagine building any kind of site without K2. The fact that this extension won the J.O.S.C.A.R. award at J and Beyond 2010 just speaks for itself.
This an excellant extension that allows you to construct more sophisticated formats for your Joomla content, and to link it to content authors in a much more satisfactory way than the Joomla core content component.
It is easy to use and includes plenty of the features that you might want from this sort of component, without being over complicated.
The thing that is really missing at the moment though is some sort of framework for extended field type plugins. If there were a framework for 3rd part developers to create new field types this would provide a huge boost to the usefulness of what is already a great extension.
It is easy to use and includes plenty of the features that you might want from this sort of component, without being over complicated.
The thing that is really missing at the moment though is some sort of framework for extended field type plugins. If there were a framework for 3rd part developers to create new field types this would provide a huge boost to the usefulness of what is already a great extension.
Awful documentation. Circular linking web site. Unattractive content template. Installation issues that are over a year old (requiring installation of Simple Image Gallery and not recognizing when it is installed). I found this to be utterly unusable and uninstalled it.
Owner's reply
Some facts to keep in mind:
- There is an immense source of documentation and resources in both the K2 community and on simon.getk2.org with quality docs and tuts from Simon Wells.
- The best template designers support K2 by default on all new templates they release. That should mean something about the "content templates" in K2.
In order to use K2 you have to understand its power. If you don't yet understand its power, it comes down then to what you need, which may be just articles on a table list...
I have given up trying to find the best joomla e-commerce extension as none of those available here are good enough to stand up alone and offer enough tools to display and manage a catalogue of products.
Instead, I decided to combine the use of K2 for the catalogue and Tienda for the shopping cart. So far, so good. I would highly recommend K2 for an e-commerce website.
Instead, I decided to combine the use of K2 for the catalogue and Tienda for the shopping cart. So far, so good. I would highly recommend K2 for an e-commerce website.
I have been looking for an extension that gives me more options with the actual content management with sections and categories and found this.
It was generally a pain in the ass to setup. There is just too much in here that I will never use or even want to use but am required too. The user groups and extra modules needed for everything to work right are really just unnecessary.
Theres enough crap in here to call it its own CMS, but wait a minute Joomla is the CMS I want to use. I'm trying not to hand all of the joomla functionality over to some 3rd party extension with horrible documentation.
It was generally a pain in the ass to setup. There is just too much in here that I will never use or even want to use but am required too. The user groups and extra modules needed for everything to work right are really just unnecessary.
Theres enough crap in here to call it its own CMS, but wait a minute Joomla is the CMS I want to use. I'm trying not to hand all of the joomla functionality over to some 3rd party extension with horrible documentation.
Owner's reply
Constructive criticism to the max, LOL. Anyway, you're obviously missing the point. So farewell to your ventures onto finding the right content management whatever for you.
What a rock-solid component K2 is. I really can't say enough about it. When I have issues with it, I post to the forum and get help - it's as easy as that.
There are some who may experience similar issues that I have with this component, but it's really just a learning curve that takes patience to latch onto.
Great work by all who developed this product and a big thank you!!
There are some who may experience similar issues that I have with this component, but it's really just a learning curve that takes patience to latch onto.
Great work by all who developed this product and a big thank you!!
This is an absolutely amazing component. I recently came across it when the standard Joomla articles just fell short. This combines many different fantastic content add-ons like ratings, comments, author bio, and more to create an absolutely excellent component. It's a part of almost all of my websites now.
Only minor issues that I could come up with so far are that items are not able to be placed in multiple categories, and the css for the overall layouts is a bit spaced out and way too big for my liking. I've modified a lot of the CSS files, so it's working great now.
Overall it's a fantastic program. I'm so glad for it.
Only minor issues that I could come up with so far are that items are not able to be placed in multiple categories, and the css for the overall layouts is a bit spaced out and way too big for my liking. I've modified a lot of the CSS files, so it's working great now.
Overall it's a fantastic program. I'm so glad for it.
For those of you that are considering downloading K2, please do so.
For those of you that instant trash this extension because you cant get it to work, then consider these options first.
1) Go to http://simon.getk2.org for extensive K2 documents, guides, tips and tricks.
2) K2 has a very vibrant user and support community. Pop in to http://getk2.org and ask a question.
3) More specifically, you can now Ask Simon, the creator of simon.getk2.org
4) With those three pieces of support alone, you can easily gain access to dedicated support if you need it.
As with all extensions there is a learning curve, but if your stuck and you dont ask questions, then you will never get the answers.
For those of you that instant trash this extension because you cant get it to work, then consider these options first.
1) Go to http://simon.getk2.org for extensive K2 documents, guides, tips and tricks.
2) K2 has a very vibrant user and support community. Pop in to http://getk2.org and ask a question.
3) More specifically, you can now Ask Simon, the creator of simon.getk2.org
4) With those three pieces of support alone, you can easily gain access to dedicated support if you need it.
As with all extensions there is a learning curve, but if your stuck and you dont ask questions, then you will never get the answers.
I would like to congratulate the whole joomlaworks team including the lead developer Fotis for the best "Joomla! component of 2010" ever. I've fallen in love with K2 and I use it all in my joomla websites since that moment. Keep improving it more and more. Best regards from Hungary! Robert
Not worth the headache.
Authors email shows up under the article. Allows for spam. Couldn't find a way to remove it.
Installed the other plugins that work with it, however, they still showed up as not installed in K2. So yeah uhh... Epic Fail....
Authors email shows up under the article. Allows for spam. Couldn't find a way to remove it.
Installed the other plugins that work with it, however, they still showed up as not installed in K2. So yeah uhh... Epic Fail....
Owner's reply
Let's see...
1. The author email can be hidden of course if you'd saw the related option in the K2 component parameters. It is also "cloaked" as we say in Joomla! lingo, which means that even if it shows up, bots cannot pickup the email address.
2. When you install a K2 plugin (which is a regular Joomla! plugin, that's why it's called "plugin" and not "pepper" or "addon" or whatever) you have to go into the Extensions >> Plugin Manager and simply enable it. I'm sure most K2 extension developers clearly define that.
Last but not least, this "headache" has just won the J!OSCARS award for component of the year... What where people thinking, right?
I installed both K2 and Simple Image Gallery Free just fine, but immediately ran into what appears to be a problem dating back to last year. The two, though made by the same company, have problems recognizing each other. After a couple hours of searching and trying the fixes suggested by other users, I'm looking for another component.
Owner's reply
First of all, both can be installed on your Joomla site, but K2 requires SIG Pro for the moment if you want to make use of proper galleries within K2. That doesn't mean that K2 will not function without SiG Pro, it's an addition, that's all.
Aside that, your comment is not really helpful. Neither you mention any specific problem, nor you're suggesting anything. All in all, pointless...
I really wonder why the JED team published this comment... if it's of any use, really...
that's cool i really need it for my site
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