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So what exactly is K2?
K2 is surely an superior template for that running a blog engine WordPress developed by Michael Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Zeo, Steve Lam Tiffany Wedding, Ben Sherratt and Eric Marden.

Think of it this way: Wherever WordPress is every little thing that goes on powering the scenes, K2 is what your visitors see.

WordPress by itself normally requires treatment of authenticating users, fetching and sending data to and from the database and supplies you together with the backend administration interface.

K2 around the other hand may be the facade of WordPress. It’s main concern is displaying the knowledge fetches by means of WordPress in the right way in the right time. Furthermore, wherever more basic themes like Kubrick have small situational awareness, K2 cares about you and is always trying to make sure you are presented with exactly the tools and info you need.
So K2 is Kubrick 2?
In essence, yes. K2 was started by Michael Heilemann, who also wrote Kubrick, and it builds on those experiences. But exactly where Kubrick is a minor naive in terms of knowing what its readers want, K2 goes out of its way to cater not only to the readers, but also the admins of the website.
But what does it do? Discount Tiffany!
K2 requires treatment of business for you. It comes prepackaged with support for a range of some of the most widely used plugins, so all you have to do is upload and activate the plugin and you’re up and working.
What more does it do?
Everybody wants their blog to be unique. Because of that K2 allows for a kind of sub-theme called ‘styles’. Simply put a style is a stylesheet file, optionally with any needed images, which can be selected while in the K2 options panel.

You can distribute your own styles for other K2 consumers of course, and K2 will automagically show the relevant data about your style—giving you credit—while in the footer of the website employing it.
So it’s a bit of a framework really?
Yeah, you could say that.

But more than that. K2 for instance also has an options panel, from which you can select custom styles, upload header images Pandora Necklace, configure the sidebar to infinitesimal levels, turn our AJAX features on and off and much more.
AJAX? What’s that?
AJAX is a way for the browser to talk with the server without having to reload the page you’re viewing. It makes web applications much faster and nicer to work with.

K2 has the following AJAX-powered features:
Live Commenting lets viewers leave a comment without having to reload the page. Livesearch lets you type your search query and instantly have the results at hand. Better yet, it integrates directly with… Rolling Archives is a navigation system designed specifically for K2, which allows you to navigate by way of archives and search results without having to reload the page.
We use the jQuery library, which also ships with WordPress, which in turn makes our code less likely to break across browsers and also hides the more complex mechanics behind–somewhat–readable code.

Furthermore, both Livesearch and Rolling Archives have been written in such a way as to make it easy for you to customize or even bring them over into your own template if you want to. Get it! It’s yours Tiffany Sale!
Man, that’s a lot… Is there more?
I’m glad you asked! K2 has of course been prepared for localization Tiffany Key Chain, and is already available in a handful of languages.
Phew, nice! That’s all then?
HAH! As if! We’ve packed K2 with ‘hidden’ features. For instance Pandora Jewelry Bracelet, if you were to decide on making use of Christine’s Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin (which we recommend if you’re into folksonomy), you’ll find your blog archive suddenly transforms from dull old chronological and categorical lists into a fully tag-support rock n’ roll extravaganza!

And then of course there’s a lot of minor stuff, like providing you, the website author, with the relevant edit links for entries and comments, welcoming back previous commenters and generally just making sure everyone is getting the data they need when they need it and not another way all around.

In short, K2 is here to make sure everyone is having a nice time.
Sounds like a bandwidth and processing hog to me!
K2 is continually improved and optimized, and we are always undertaking our utmost to save your server from stressing alone too much. Where ever possible we make sure to not load CSS and JS files unless absolutely needed, and in our releases (_not_ in the subversion repository) we gzip and compress as much code as we can get away with and still have K2 be workable for you.

In other words, it can be if you enable each of the bells and whistles of K2.

Should you do this and subsequently experience issues with your server Tiffany Ring, you might want to turn off stuff like Rolling Archives and Livesearch Diamond Tiffany, as those are the two major offenders.

PS: If your host turns out to not be entirely up to par, we suggest giving Media Temple a try. Both the official K2 site as well as Michael Heilemann’s site is hosted off of Media Temple, and they are K2 certified, so to speak.
Alright. Sounds complex though
It is. And it isn’t. We’ve taken care of all the logic going on powering the scenes, all you’ve got to worry about is how you want your site to look and behave.

Really.

No. Really.

By flicking via a few options and creating your own stylesheet you’ll have your very own unique blog site. And when that time rolls about in which you need to upgrade K2 to the latest and greatest version, you don’t have to worry about overwriting your changes, because you don’t have to touch the core files to customize your blog site.
Just give me the lowdown User-friendly.
Admin-friendly.
100% open source.
Semantic XHTML, CSS and JS structure.
Supports custom CSS files, the so-called ‘styles’.
Smart layout adapts to needs.
Fully configureable from options page.
Upload and manage custom headers.
Sidebar Modules comes bundled (with special K2 modules) and support WordPress Widgets.
Live comment posting.
Livesearch.
Rolling Archives.
Dozens of plugins supported out-of-the-box.
And hell, we even threw in a special printer stylehsheet for printing out your blog, just cuz we like you. Not enough? Alright, well we’ve also packaged in a Star Wars themed style for you geeks out there.

Ehm… Could the force be with you… Always.
That’s quite a mouthful, what else?
Well that’s most of the spiehl. If you want more you can try some of the following stuff:
Download Stable K2
Download K2 Nightly Build
K2 Subversion Repository
Documentation Wiki
Support Forum
Developer Website
Subversion Changelog
Bug Tracker
And that’s about it.