To show comments in a page, add a new custom field with the name: comments and value: 1 (or on or yes, the value doesn’t matter).

To hide the sidebar in a page or a single post, add a new custom field with the name: sidebarless and value: 1 (or on or yes, the value doesn’t matter). You will now get a wide appearance without the sidebar when viewing the page or single post.

It might be interesting for those of you who plan to style to know just how this works. Well, it’s quite simple; when you scroll, a piece of javascript checks if the top of the ‘#dynamic-content’ container–which is where the content of your blog is kept–is being scrolled out of view. If it is, the class ‘fixraposition’ is added to BODY. The rest is CSS in css/rollingarchives.css.

I haven’t tested this in IE yet, but in all likelihood it doesn’t work. But then, what does?

Good news everyone. As of revision 382, K2 now fully utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library. K2 no longer uses Prototype and script.aculo.us. They are no longer bundled with K2. Rolling Archives and Live Search should be functioning properly. Live Comments needs a few cosmetic tweaks. Text Trimmer is disabled and needs to be ported. #

This is the latest and probably nearly last version of the K2 options page. It took me long enough to finally get around to cleaning up our options page, which quite frankly had just been added to since we started out.

K2 users will note the absence of the ‘K2 Header’ tab. It’s gone. Dead. Along with most of the options that page contained. Instead there is now a Custom Header section on the main options page, which contains only the most vital header options. I decided, in the light of all discarded options being possible purely through CSS, to cut to the bone.

Click the above screenshot for some notes on the various sections.

The reason for these changes is an agreement I made with Scott to try and keep our class names as close as possible, hopefully paving the way for other people to adopt the same class naming convention. That, and Sandbox’s naming convention was better than ours in most respects.

This does not mean Sandbox and K2′s structures or CSS files are interchangable, mind you. Merely that there is some coherence between the two.

These are the changes:

• .commentmetadata becomes .comment-meta
• body.staticpage becomes body.page
• .permalink becomes .single
• .entry becomes .hentry
• .editlink becomes .entry-edit
• .tagdata becomes .entry-tags
• .commentauthor becomes .bypostauthor
• .aside becomes .category-aside
• .metadata becomes .entry-meta

If you are a style author I recommend you do some quick search and replaces in your CSS file, as this will be the new default classes from r94 and up. Though you should really do a thorough walkthrough of your CSS to make sure it works as intended.

I also recommend everyone to get the latest revision and view source on your site to see the new semantic classes in effect.

And finally, this is a work in progress, so expect things to change slightly over the next few days.

Thank you very much to Hasse!

PS: If you already have Hasse’s original plugin installed, deactivate it and relocated the header pictures to /images/headers/ in the K2 folder.

Also, make sure the /images/headers/ is writable.