K2 - Joomla Extension

Management platform Joomla is one of the best in the world. But by default, content management system, provides the webmaster Spartan conditions for the content of the site. K2 component allows you to get a lot of new possibilities in the management of texts and images and optimize edit the resource. Irrespective of the subject site, the application helps you create sophisticated, multi-level portals.

 

Extension Description

About the K2 extension, we might say that everything that is not made in Joomla, the developers have added in K2. The component is useful for news, corporate websites, blogs, directories, encyclopedias, dynamic text, photo and video content. Once installed, it takes control of the content and performs its formation.

The most important function of extension - possibility to create infinite number of nested categories. This greatly simplifies the work with the site hierarchy. What would the search engines easier to find the desired page must be optimized to distribute the static weight of site. Usually this is done through internal linking of pages. It is very tedious. But the K2 provides a tool that solves this problem automatically, using tags. At the end of the page displays links to articles with similar content. There in the basement is the module for review.

The developers of K2 have thought convenient to publish the main photo for the article. Photo is scaled to the selected size as an icon in the lists of articles. Also displayed with the specified dimensions on the main article page. Photo sizes not necessarily pre-edited in the graphics editor, the extension K2 scales the graphics by yourself. In the component modules of integrated social media buttons, inserting photo galleries and videos. Many manufacturers of K2 templates integrate into their products by default.

Additional Features

Despite the apparent popularity and usefulness of the extension K2 not to mention the spoon of tar, which the developers gave to users are greedy of free software. Itself is free K2 component. But to insert media or image gallery will not succeed. You will need to purchase these plugins on the website of the manufacturer. Problem solved and free with add-ons third-party.

K2 is an extensible tool, so the possibilities are limited only by the number of plugins developed for it. One of the most popular and useful among them is Additional Categories. It enables you to assign several categories to a single material. Web designers who use a Joomla extension, not used to work with multicategories, and therefore sometimes preferred component of the ZOO. Now this problem is solved for K2.

Another useful plugin for news sites - SW Tabs. He divides the text into sections, which you will specify in admin panel. The plugin displays above the article is a series of buttons with which you can select articles to read. For example, you can create the buttons: the main text, information, related news, gallery, map, comments.

Online you can find a huge number of plugins, modules and components compatible with the K2 extension as third-party manufacturers and the developers of the product. This allows you to use Joomla component K2 for almost all types of sites with different content.

The extension has a crack, which is published on the official website almost immediately after the release of the latest version.