Any information on K2 for Joomla! 4? Topic is solved

[JurajB]

Hello,
the tittle said it all.
Have anybody some info if they are developing (V3) or not?
Raxo container for K2 is active.

[pe7er]

Have anybody some info if they are developing (V3) or not?

Maybe you could ask the developer of K2 if they are developing a Joomla 4 version?

[JurajB]

OK, it probably will be done (what I can say from forums). But some time later when Joomla 4 prevail.

[fotisevangelou]

K2 will indeed be available for Joomla 4 in the coming months. It would have been a much faster conversion process if the Joomla core team hadn't renamed the Joomla codebase (again) & with no backwards compatibility layer at all.

[JurajB]

Hello,
Im (and probably many others) am interested into use of K2.
Any information for Joomla! 4 release.
Further I wonder if it will be v3 of K2 for Joomla! 4.
Thank you.

[brian]

This is not the place to ask. You should ask on the k2 forum

[TheAnt]

K2 will indeed be available for Joomla 4 in the coming months. It would have been a much faster conversion process if the Joomla core team hadn't renamed the Joomla codebase (again) & with no backwards compatibility layer at all.

Hi Fotis, are there news?

[trzv]

I am terrified by the prospect to not use K2 in Joomla. Been using it since J1 and K2 is the only reason I stayed with Joomla for the last 12 years. I hope Joomlaworks comes with a J4 update, otherwise all the websites I have built and maintain presently are dead, and so am I

[gmrob]

Sorry to read of your predicament, trzv. Have you experimented with migrating K2 into Joomla articles using this plugin: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... migration/

Depending how it goes, it may help you move past your reliance on K2.

Regards,
Geoff

[xtremo54]

Sorry to read of your predicament, trzv. Have you experimented with migrating K2 into Joomla articles using this plugin: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... migration/

Depending how it goes, it may help you move past your reliance on K2.

Regards,
Geoff

I gave up on waiting for K2 some months ago.....if you read their responses on their Forum you'll see why.

So I used the JA conversion plugin and it works well......without it I'd have had a lot of problems!

[aPatchie]

So I reached out to Joomla Works about K2 and offered them funding and space to develop it and I heard nothing back (I have a lot of websites that use the k2 system).

Since I heard nothing from them I decided starting yesterday I'm building my own version and making it work the way I've always want it to.

The lack of communication and empty promises of the K2 team is a bit of an insult to the Joomla community that have supported them.

[SharkyKZ]

Must be difficult supporting J! versions 1.5 through 4.x in one extension .

[aPatchie]

Must be difficult supporting J! versions 1.5 through 4.x in one extension .

It's neither a simple or difficult task. Many achieve this with little issues.

It is apparent that K2 has come to it's end, and we aim to release Everist from January.

[guest20230913]

This is not the place to ask. You should ask on the k2 forum

This is good advice, indeed. But I'm locked out of the joomlaworks forum before I can make a single post. Honestly, I see this as yet another K2 programmer nonsense... ok. So, if you'll excuse me, I'll leave this message on my favorite Joomla forum.

Attention, ready for testing fork K2 for Joomla 4. The author (eworkers) invites to test all who are interested in further development of this wonderful Joomla component K2:

To be true about the state of this repo, we think it is stable enough, but we don't want to advertise such announcement before we see some fair number of user implying so!
....
Meanwhile, we thank you for taking the time to introduce this discussion and we encourage all others to get involved so they can enlighten us more about next steps.

https://github.com/eworkers/K2ForJ4/discussions/1

[SharkyKZ]

Attention, ready for testing fork K2 for Joomla 4. The author (eworkers) invites to test all who are interested in further development of this wonderful Joomla component K2:

It's a shame they didn't fork it properly. All commit history lost.

[aPatchie]

The biggest problem with K2 was the communication with all the userbase. Joomlaworks simply didn't keep people updated and many have moved on to just using Articles.

Since announcing us working on a unique version we're calling Everist, I've had a number of people reach out about it. I'm looking to launch testing in January and have it ready no later then February with features that are not available with K2.

I, like many others, grew frustrated with zero communication and I have many Joomla deployments that relied on the K2 component working with other key plugins to service those websites.

It is also very ironic that I have looked at the code and I myself got it working on J4 within a week, just to keep these deployments operational.

This being said, it lacks a lot of features and I intend on innovating and progressing the Everist variation.

[borja]

Hello

we are still waiting for k2 for joomla4. Any alternative? How to migrate k2 content into the alternative?

[pe7er]

we are still waiting for k2 for joomla4. Any alternative?

I don't know which K2 functionality you currently use,
but since Joomla 3.7 there might be an alternative in the Joomla core:
Custom Fields, see https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Adding_custom_fields

[guest20230913]

...but since Joomla 3.7 there might be an alternative in the Joomla core:
Custom Fields...

It's not enough...
Why won't the Joomla team think about the ability to comment on articles?
Perhaps they remember the lawsuits brought against Microsoft by player developers?
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/12/4480-2/

[pe7er]

Why won't the Joomla team think about the ability to comment on articles?

Because Joomla is a CMS and not a blogging platform. The majority of the Joomla instances are set up as websites, not as blog websites.

You can turn your Joomla into a blog website if you want: there are plenty of blog extensions that add the ability to comment on articles.

[vonseiten]

It is also very ironic that I have looked at the code and I myself got it working on J4 within a week, just to keep these deployments operational.

This being said, it lacks a lot of features and I intend on innovating and progressing the Everist variation.

Are there any news on that?
And can you share the code for K2 runnning in J4 with the community?
Thanks,
Jonathan