Hi everyone

I'm developing a site for a record label and intend to use K2 to power the blog parts of the site.

There's two main blogs:

• Main blog
• Shop blog

And then there's sub-blogs for each artist. I'd like to be able to extract artist-specific posts on artist-pages. And since the shop also deals artists signed elsewhere and other labels I also need to extract label and artist-specific blog bogs for their pages.

The shop blog should NOT appear on the site blog.

Should I create 2 categories for the two main blogs and subcategories for each artist and label? The problem with this apprach could be that I'd end up with multiple subcategories with the same names (but with different parent categories), which can be confusing...

Any better ideas?

Thanks. That sounds like a nice and simple approach.

Do you have suggestion on how I get the URLs I want for the blogs and tags. I'd like it to be as straightforward as possible, like this:

domain.com/blog
domain.com/blog/artist-name

and the shop blog:

domain.com/shop/blog

hmmm... when I make a K2 Content component I cannot choose to display tags, only categories. Does that mean that I should choose categories in order to be able to use module to display the blogs?

Are you looking for a way to return only the K2 items with a specific tag? One way to do this is with a Joomla menu -- maybe this would help:

In Joomla Menu Manager:
1. Create new menu item
2. Select "Menu Item Type" = K2 Tag (select "Tag" under the K2 category)
3. In "Required Settings" for menu item, select an existing K2 Tag // limit of only one tag per menu item

Do you instead mean that when you view a category, you do not see the tags for the items?

If so:
* Make sure that the items have tags (if no tags, a template may not display the tag section)
* Make sure tags are enabled in K2 category (go to K2 -> Categories -> select category -> Item View options in category view -> Tags = Show)

I'm still playing around with K2 myself -- I'm sorry if that doesn't address what you are seeking!

Awesome! THANKS for the help!

Are you looking for a way to return only the K2 items with a specific tag?

Yes B)

The only problem I have with the solution is all the menu items. I don't want a menu item for each blog area, what I want is to incorporate a blog module on pages with other modules.

If each artist is a tag, you may want to investigate the built-in K2 Tag Cloud module... load this module on the pages you want, and it will show all of the available tags (with links to "view" those tags... aka the blogs).

In Joomla Module Manager:
1. Create new module, type = K2 Tools
2. Enter position, pages, title, status, etc.
3. In Basic Options, "Select module functionality" = Tag Cloud
4. In Tag Cloud Settings, set Min font size and Max font size both equal to 100%, and select the category for your artists

See if that might get you something that you're looking for.

I saw other forum posts last night about modifying this K2 Tools module to further change the display of the tag cloud (e.g. have each tag on its own line, so you'd have each artist individually), but I haven't had a chance to try that myself.

Thx, but a tag cloud isn't what I'm looking for either. Perhaps I'm unclear about what I'm looking for so let me give you an example.

4AD actually does axactly what I want to do. There's a main blog (news feed) on the front page plus various other modules. If you click on one of the artist pages you're taken to that artist's page.
You'll see that the main blog has been filtered to display only posts related to that artists.

If I assign a menu-item to a k2 tag I'll loose the option to display other modules such as media-players etc., right?

I'm really keen on keeping the design as clear as possible and I'm pretty sure a tag cloud is too blog-like for this type of site.

I'm totally new to joomla and K2 so there might be something really basic about the structure of joomla sites that I'm missing... ;)

i'll use k2 for more than the blog. Is it possible to show tagged posts from the blog cat only ? (since I'd tag other content types/categories using the same tags)