Its starting to feel like Spring here in Florida!  Up until December, it seemed like we were going to have a mild winter.  We didn't really have any hard freezes until late December, then it stayed below freezing for 7 or 8 days straight!  I can't remember last time that happened. It has been the coldest January and February in decades , and we may have another frost or two.  Its all due to El Nino they say.  Well its finally starting to warm up a bit and the birds and bees are out in full affect.  The sun is shinning and a cool breeze is blowing.  In north Florida we usaally get about a month of days like this before the daily 90 degree temperature sets in.  This and Fall are my two favorite times of year here, too bad we only get about a month of each.  Anyway, I'm off to go play outside a bit and enjoy it while I can!

Another small modification I needed for K2, was a fix for the size of the modal pop up front-end editor widow.  In the K2 default  package the modal pop up widow size is set to  990x650, which caused problems for smaller displays.  Some of my users use laptops with relatively small displays that were not able to display the full 990 x 650 window.  They could only see part of the pop up and were not able to reach the save button.  It also caused some problems for users with lower resolution on large screens.  In order the fix the issue without having to worry to much about the users actual display size, I used a fix that displays the modal pop up based on the users display size, rather than a fixed size.  Here is a link to the fix.  The code must bechanged in each of these locations: 

1.components/com_k2/templates/user.php
- line 46
- line 107
2.components/com_k2/templates/default/category.php
- line 47
3.components/com_k2/templates/default/category_item.php
- line 31
4.components/com_k2/templates/default/item.php
- line 30
- line 111
5.modules/mod_k2_login/tmpl/userblock.php
- line

Line numbers are approximate.  Change the code indicating the window size to this:

rel="{handler:'iframe',size:{x:window.getSize().scrollSize.x-80, y: window.getSize().size.y-80}, onShow:$('sbox-window').setStyles({'padding': 0})}"

It works beautifully for me.

One of the small bugs that I had initially with K2, was a problem with the login module.  I use some JoomlaShack templates and after I installed K2, which has its own login module, I found that the "forgot your password", "forgot your username", and "create an account" links below the login box were all overlapping making it difficult to read and almost impossible to click on the create an account link.  I found the fix by comparing the template for the login module in my JoomlaShack template with the template provided with the K2 login module.  The JS template assigns a class to these links whereas the K2 module does not.  When I added the classes to the K2 module, it fixed the issue immediately and included the little icons fron the JS template wiht the links.  Here is a link to the forum post with exact details for fixing the K2 login module link overlap issue with JoomlaShack templates. 

I thought maybe the little issues I fixed on my first K2 install would be fixed in K2.2, but no such luck.  Im not complaining by any means, I love this component!! It is exactly what I need and best of all its free!!  I just had to make a few minor modifications to get everything working and looking perfectly.  I had to scramble a few night ago after I updated a clients site and all the little bugs came back.  I had to search back through my own forum posts to find the fixes!  Well its all done now and working beautifully.  In a day or two I will post an article detailing the minor fixes, just in case anyone else is having the same issues.