Hi,

 

I wanted to create a really basic blog section on my K2 site. Are there any tutorials on how to do this with K2?

 

Or if anyone has some really good advice that would be great.

 

Thanks

Hi.

 

You're in luck! Steven Zeegers just posted an extensive tutorial on just that subject last week! 5 part series starts here:

www.joomlareporter.net/joomla/tutorials/create-a-wordpress-style-blog-using-joomla-and-k2.html

 

--Olivier

Thanks for the link ... it does look like a good way of setting up a blog.

 

I was just wondering if it would be better to use the "K2 » Itemlist / User" view?

Well, it depends what you want to do... Usually blogs are in reverse chronological order regardless of the author but if your blog calls for for a user based view then go for it...

--Olivier

I have one further question ... if you dont mind!

 

I am actually importing a blog from WP to K2 and in WP you can apply multiple categories to a post. Is there anyway of emulating this in K2?

No you can't have an item in multiple categories in K2... yet (they have mentioned that it's something they will be looking at).  

What you can do is (depending on your needs) use the tag functionality and then create individual tag views to simulate that.

--Olivier

Right, so put every post/item into a single category and then use the tags in each post/item to group them off?

 

That makes sense but unfortunately when I imported all of the content into Joomla it didn't import the tags! I guess I need to import directly into K2 where the items allow for tags. Any easy way to do this?

That's the idea.

 

If you look in the JED, there's a CSV to K2 import extension that will import tags along with the content.

--Olivier