Let’s see how to add categories in K2. <\/p>\r\n
1. Open Joomla administration panel and go to Components>K2 > Categories<\/strong>. <\/p>\r\n 2. Then click New<\/strong> button in the top right corner<\/p>\r\n 3. At the appeared screen you can define category settings. <\/p>\r\n In the right column you can see category specific settings that allows you to adjust category layout. Let’s see what options we have. <\/p>\r\n Category template<\/strong> – allows you to select category layout template. Category template files are located in the templates\/theme###\/html\/com_k2\/templates<\/strong> folder. <\/p>\r\n Layout Grid<\/strong> – allows to define how the content items appear. The following scheme displays the category layout using the above settings. <\/p>\r\n Using the Count and columns fields you can define the number of items and columns for the category layout. <\/p>\r\n You can also select the image size for each items area. <\/p>\r\n In the Other layout options<\/strong> you can select if you want to display items from sub-categories, define items order and pagination. <\/p>\r\n Please note that you can hover over the option title to see short tip. <\/p>\r\n Allows you to define what parts of the category details you want to display at the category page<\/p>\r\n Allows to define what parts of tem details you want to display at the category listing page. <\/p>\r\n![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-1-266x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-1\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\n![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-2-300x119.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-2\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\nGeneral Settings<\/h3>\r\n
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Category item Layout<\/h3>\r\n
![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-4-163x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-4\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\n![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-5-300x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-5\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\nCategory View Options<\/h3>\r\n
![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-6-219x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-6\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\nItem image options<\/h3>\r\n
![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-7-300x246.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-7\\"")
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\r\nHere you can define the width for the item images. The images width values should be defined before you upload images to your items. <\/p>\r\nItem view options in category listings<\/h3>\r\n
![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-8-134x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-8\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\nItem view options<\/h3>\r\n
![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-9-129x300.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-9\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\r\n![\"\"](\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/k2-cat-10-300x256.jpg\" "\\"k2-cat-10\\"")
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