K2 is a Content Extension for Joomla! that provides more features than the standard content component.
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Joomla - Where is the code in K2 which saves a new item's Title and alias
I have looked every where in the administrator\components\com_k2 folder but am not able to find the code that saves a new item\article in K2. I checked the item.php file under models folder. No luck.
I need to override the K2 item save method.
I…

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How can I ajax within a joomla component's view (k2) to access & update user profile data from the database?
I am using joomla 2.5 with it's default "user profile" plugin that adds extra fields to the profile page of joomla.
I am also using k2 and have a template override setup for the view I am working…

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Getting K2 extra fields and rating into the search results, generic.php
I try to show tags, item rating and exztra fields in the search results. I got tags to show, but i fail with rating and extra fields. Can somebody advice me or give a code example?
Here is the code to show tags in generic.php:

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How to Remove main category from URL in K2 in Joomla 2.5
What I have: Joomla 2.58 , K2 , sh404sef
Problem : I want to put K2 main category on my Homepage, so it shows a few folders of Sub-categories... But I don't want the main category to be seen in URL. But all other categories should be seen.
How to do…

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Why Joomla! K2 does not support Chinese search?
I used K2, but I have found search Chinese have no result via K2 search model.
Joomla 3.0.X, K2 v2.6.1
file: /plugins/search/k2/k2.php
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WHERE (";
if ($pluginParams->get('search_tags') && count($itemIDs))
{
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How do I survive from Joomla K2 image handling?
I have started a news website for a specific area of business one year ago. The website lists news and for every post there is a featured image. Unfortunately, there have been posted about 1500 news in a year and the website is taking 1,07Gbytes of…

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Joomla K2 content sort by number of votes
I'm using Joomla 2.5 and K2 2.5.7. I have a category with posts with a different number of votes. In the front end, I need to sort the items of this category by number of votes.
I re-configured standard stars rating systems to simple "Give one…

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Joomla Rating, intead of showing % i want it to view '8.2/10'?
Im using the component K2, and it's voting/rating system. Currently it displays the rating as a percentage, with some css to view stars. But instead of showing the stars, I want it to say for example, 4.5/5
This is the code for viewing it:

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k2 limit number of items that can be created by user
I'm building a K2-website where I'd like to limit the cration of items per user.
In this case there are "schools" with f.i. "news", "pictures", "events".
school (max. 1)
news (> 1)
pictures (> 1)
events (> 1)
There should be only one…

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Adding a custom field type on K2 component joomla 2.5
I'm trying to search on google for days already but I couldn't find some useful articles or resources that may able to help me with my concern.
I would like to know if how I would be able to create a plugin for K2 component to add a new field type…

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How to include new module in Joomla k2 item.php
I want to include one new module position inside the item.php of K2. Is it possible?
I want to add advertisement in that module (diff in different categories) .
This module should align left in the article and item image should align right in the…

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How to override stylesheets - Joomla
I'm struggling with a property that is defined in 3 stylesheets:
Joomla.css
My Site's Template.css
Content extension using K2.css
The problem is that I need to align a toolbar to the right. The property text-align is correctly defined in the…

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Joomla K2 Frontend page Modification
I have K2 plugin installed and my users are able to make posts, i want to modify the "Add Item" page , where could be its possible PHP file? in com_k2 folder or...? I am totally lost !
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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Joomla main menu not showing all K2 Product Categories
I am using K2 component to showcase my products. I have created a menu item in my main menu for showing all my product categories (without sub categories) in a catalog style (To do this I went to- menu item> K2>Item Listing>Categories). I have…

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How to create a custom template for k2 category and assign this template into Joomla backed?
I read many answers on stack overflow and Joomla community but I didn't find how to display the category override template in the backend.
Please check this screenshot.

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