I sometimes wonder why, when preparing for the launch of Joomla 2.5, the Joomla team decided to remove the option to reset the number of article hits. In J1.5 this was a useful feature, especially in instances where an article had been modified (updated).

Therefore, it was recently released the newest version of the component, I decided to compare two versions of the K2 component of the latest edition of Joomla 1.7. K2 is the popular (for several years) powerful content extension with CCK-like features.

GavickPro is already present on the Extend K2 directory with our last projects developed with K2 theme support.
It includes all templates developed during the years 2010 and 2011 but also the popular extensions such as News Show Pro GK4 and Highlighter GK4, both available for free and with full support for K2 component.

Probably not once wondered how to add menu items to the module, which will be opened in a popup window - I did. Of course, the methods may be a few, but I chose the easiest solution.

K2 for Joomla! 1.5 offers many opportunities, but still found that there are other extensions that help you to use it. Let's look at some of them.

"You don't have to be cool to rule my world" - just like that Tom Jones could now sing seeing the changes occurring in the CMS. In posts in all forums, strong trend can be seen as having a race the latest version of CMS. This goes to the web administrators, who if he did not notice that it does not always change to a new version is what I really needed.

Some days ago I started to read a new book "Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook" (from packtpub.com) written by Tom Canavan. After reviewing a few pages, I was going to put it down when I came to Chapter 7: Managing Articles Using the Content Construction Kit K2.

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