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For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view layout override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty bad to achieve it.

For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view layout override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty hard to achieve it.

For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty bad to achieve it.

For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view layout override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty bad to achieve it.

For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Few years back, while J! 2.5 was still alive, I used to have site-template, from which I would start my projects and build simple sites for my clients. Concept worked pretty well and I made almost 15 sites out of that site-template which I called FLEXI 2, and which I still keep alive for sentimental reasons, although I don't use it anymore. The URL is http://flexi2.auroit.com/en/ and under navbar item Catalog you can see my conceptual implementation of K2 Catalog with more types of categorizations and items which can belong to multiple categories. There is right column menu (back then it was called column and not sidebar ;-) ) which clearly shows categories and subcategories. As you can see there is always that 3-blocks distinction, and nowhere you can find mixed blocks 2 and 3.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty bad to achieve it.

For any setting related to K2 there is just no simple answer. It is very powerfull and hence pretty tough beast to tame.

K2 Category blog view has three distinctive areas:

1. Root category block with it's title, image, description
2. Sub-categories block, with their titles, images and descriptions
3. Items block, with items belonging to either root category and/or sub-categories, with their atributes. Items display depends on settings chosen in both main category and sub-categories.

But there is no setting which will enable you to mix blocks 2 and 3, which is what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

Only way I can see your problem might be solved is to create specific K2 category view override, but that might turn out to be pretty messy. I for one would have to scratch my head pretty bad to achieve it.