Hi, I know this might be one of those "this is how K2 works" but we have built a site that really requires everything (except for blogs posts and moulding profiles) to be in Categories (not items). These categories have a lot of content (pictures/links, etc) based on our hierarchy (Products>Windows>Marvin.... etc). I saw there wasn't a readmore option available in the category description (to limit what is shown on the parent category) and when I try to insert the default Joomla! readmore --- hr id="system-readmore" ----, it does not work. Instead of trying to do a php string cut off function, is there another way to do this? I want the administrators to be able to cut off their content when they need to (what shows up in the parent category's content). Thanks!

I was able to create a new K2 template and insert:

echo substr($subCategory->description, 0, 200) . '...'

where the description would go (inside the if statement which decides whether to even implement it) - but it'd be great if this was dependent more on the Joomla! readmore tag than the 200 limit I have now. Thanks!

Any help with this guys?

have you solved your problem?

any updates? does the v2.4.1 resolve this?

Same problem here. Can't figure out how to solve this one...

dont know if this is solved but i have the same issue and i replaced

<?php echo $category->description; ?>

with

<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::wordLimit($category->description, 50); ?>