Advanced K2 - Leveraging The Power Of Joomla! & K2 (J and Beyond 2010)

If you have been building websites with Joomla! professionally, you probably know the advantages as well as the shortcomings of the CMS. Your clients want features and you end up with sites that are difficult to extend or maintain. Enter K2 to the rescue!

K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features developed by JoomlaWorks. It 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!

With almost 200,000 downloads in less than a year, K2 already powers two of the world's highest traffic Joomla! websites (Gazzetta.gr & TNAWrestling.com), popular websites like Gorillaz.com & The Arts Desk, websites of prominent Joomla! template developers (JoomlaPraise & JoomlaBamboo), thousands of personal or business websites around the world, as well as the JandBeyond.org website.

Fotis Evangelou from JoomlaWorks will reveal the true power of K2 in a session targeted at professional Joomla! integrators, developers and designers. From content configuration and CCK field building to templating and to writing basic plugins (without existing coding knowledge) that extend the item, category and user forms. You will learn how to prepare K2 for a multi-author environment (ready to handle dozens of thousands of articles/items), leveraging K2's in-built ACL capabilities and frontend editing features.

Finally, you will learn all the tips & tricks of using K2 at the professional level, including matters of performance, upgrading and easy maintenance.

More on K2: http://getk2.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• k2
• joomla
• joomlaworks
• jab10
• j and beyond
• 2010
• presentation
• advanced