I've recently started working on a site that uses K2 to store its content and am more than a bit lost on how to get a simple blog working properly. I've searched the web, stackoverflow and this forum.

I found one other unresolved case of this issue: getk2.org/community/English-K2-Community/166434-Basic-Category-Layout-Gird-Problem


Here are the steps I've foliowed:

- a K2 category with 21 active items already exists

- created a menu item of type "K2 Categories" and assigned the single K2 category to it

- set the "item ordering" to "most recent", left other menu options default

- set the Category item layout options to:
- - leading count 0, columns 1
- - primary count 10, columns 1
- - secondary count 0, columns 1
- - links count 0, columns 1

- cleared the cache

The category displays as
Page 1:
1 leading
1 primary
1 secondary
6 links
Page 2:
1 leading
1 primary
1 secondary
6 links
No page 3

changing the template used by the menu item does not change the display, I've tried:
- Beez 2 - Default
- JA_T3_Blank - Default
- OneWeb - Default

All return the same result.

I'm running Joomla 2.5.20 and K2 2.6.8.

Thanks/peter

I'm surprised no one had the answer for this. After a bit of hacking it became obvious. There is a setting on the category that says "inherit parameter options from category". It basically means that the options panel in this category is useless, but the panel still takes your settings, just ignores them.

When that is set the options should not be available, and a good document on how all this works would be useful. I'm going to answer the other unresolved post in it hasn't been closed.

Thank you for your feedback.