K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features developed by JoomlaWorks, makers of fine Joomla! extensions since 2006.

It provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!

Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! Since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.

Give K2 a try and you'll instantly love it! It's easy to use and fun to develop websites with! If you need any help or want to contribute to the project, join us here at the K2 community.

Get started

To get started, check out this quick step-by-step guide on installing and setting up K2 by Florante Bautista.

We will soon feature video tutorials to help new users get started with K2 and Joomla! 1.5! In the meantime, have a look at the K2 presentation videos shot at Joomla!Day Netherlands in June 2009 and at Joomla!Day Germany in September 2009. They are a great resource especially for newbies.

For Joomla! designers/developers

If you design Joomla! templates or develop Joomla! extensions that support K2, sign up, write a blog post and we will publish it on the community's frontpage to let K2 users know!

If you're a Joomla! extension developer specifically, you can immediately post your Joomla!/K2 extension on the related K2 extensions for Joomla! forum board.