Updated: 19 December, 2006
K2 is the first theme I optimized. It’s probably the most comprehensive Wordpress theme and it’s also used as a base for many other themes. The theme itself is always updated with newer versions so I can only share the latest optimized version as of today. Anyway, you can always download the latest K2 version and optimize it yourself. I’ve posted some instructions on theme optimization over at the WPG2 forums.
Download: K2 version 0.9.1 for WPG2
hey there, just wondering if you could do an update for this with the new K2 0.9 version recent release. I could do it myself if you tell me what needs to be tweaked.
Thanks, NOEL
Hi Noel,
I just noticed the 0.9 version and started optimizing it this morning. I kinda got busy with other stuff though so it’s been put on hold. I should be able to release an updated version very soon though. Promise!
-Aylwin-
Greetings and thanks for all the great info and optimized themes.
I’m having a problem, though, with your optimized K2. Optimized “Default” runs fine with the folder tree on the block, beautiful gallery integration, etc. But with “K2,” the tree does not show, Gallery’s navbar and “breadcrumbs” are all broken. I’m quite certain there is a problem in the wpg2header.php for K2: I imported the wpg2header from the “Default” into “K2″ and the embedded gallery now looked fine, but there obviously was no K2 header.
Can’t figure out what to edit out/in, so a helping hand or a revised “Optimized K2″ would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Ralph
You’re right! It seems I messed up the zip file somehow. Sorry about that. It should be okay now… hopefully.
Aylwin,
That fixed it alright: uploaded the modified K2 and it looks good. Thanks for the quick response. I am very excited to set up our new site with WordPress and the embedded Gallery plugin. It’s a great combination.
(FWIW - the margins for the gallery in “Default” were a little wide for the theme. I copied the style.css directly off your website’s code and modified the stylesheet in “Default” and now it looks nice.)
Keep up the great work!
Ralph
curiously k2 updated to 0.9.1 as I’m already running 0.9.1 and getting ready to intergrate gallery… any plans to update the k2 wpg2 version?
I realized I might have sounded bitchy with that comment. I’m tired. no bitchiness was intended and I’d really love it if you could perhaps in your spare time, update k2 to 9.1 since 0.9.0 was buggy as heck for me.
No bitchiness was interpreted. I can’t keep track of all the themes so it’s good when someone notifies me when a newer version becomes available. My optimized version of K2 0.9.1 is now available for download.
Ahh thanks… life got busy and I checked back and here you were all updated… Great work. I just copied the files over my existing k2 installation and bam it was there.
many thanks for the work and the understanding.
One question… is there a away to make it not the second page/tab but say the last one? If you tell me how I can probably figure it out.
I installed it and I can see “random image” in the right sidebar.
But after I add some modules in the “K2 Sidebar Modules” option in wordpress, all the original modules are disappear.
Originally I think I can add them again, but I found I cannot find the gallery (or WPG2?) module. Could you give me any suggestion? thanks.
Having an issue with extra padding on the left hand side starting from the post title. Notice how the title and content is pushed over:
http://jamesholcomb.info/2007/03/11/blogging-from-word-2007/#comments
I thought maybe Word 2007 was doing this but I checked individual posts that I made from the WP GUI and they also exhibit the same behavior….Any ideas? Thanks for your effort in integrating K2 and WPG.
I found your site this morning and found it very helpful with removing the sidebar in gallery2 when viewing pics. I’m running K2 .95 and was wondering if you were doing any work on optimizing this awesome theme anymore? I have mostly everything working correctly but when I create a page called gallery and click it to load the gallery the fonts are too big and the wrong color. If i browse to thunderpunch.net/wp-gallery2.php it looks fine. Any ideas?
Thanks for notifying me about the K2 version. I’m too lazy to keep track of all the themes. I’ll try to make an update when I have some time.
Your website looks fine to me. Both /wp-gallery2.php and /gallery/ look exactly the same. The only thing I would recommend is changing “v” to “gallery” in the URL rewrites. I think it makes the URLs look nicer.
Hi Aylwin, thanks for your mod to K2 for WPG2. I’m setting up a new blog and have had some probs with K2 095 RC1 and WPG2. Tried to follow your cookbook as posted on the G2Embedded site but still couldn’t crack it (I’m not qualified, I’m afraid.) Had to revert to your modified K2 091 for WPG2, and that worked. I’d just like to add my request to that of others, for you to do a WPG2-friendly version of K2 095, please.
your mod looks great, any updates coming soon? i’d also like to see support for 095, thanks man & nice site!
how would I go about optimizing the latest version of k2 (K2 Release Candidate 3) for WPG2? Is it necessary to use a WPG2 optimized theme for WPG2 to work properly?
Hello. I would like to optimize a theme for wpg2 (i3theme).
How can I proceed? I will send you my work to be published, of course.
Thnaks
I have some old instructions here:
http://www.galleryembedded.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2108
They should still work, more or less, for WPG2 3.0.x but I should really update my instructions. Hopefully, I’ll get that done sooner rather than later.