***K2Nautilus***

K2Nautilus is a photoblogging mod of K2, made by Becks. You can find out more at http://geek.marinegirl.co.uk. You can also contact me through that site. 
It took a fair few hours to get it looking and working like this, so whilst I'm happy for you to use it, change it, steal the bits you like from it, it would be nice if you could recognise my work. Consider it a creative commons theme!

K2Nautilus is designed to work with Wordpress 2.1

UPDATE: I have reconstructed the theme to work with Wordpress 2.2. It is based on K2 0.96.

***DISCLAIMER***

I made K2Nautilus to suit my own photoblogging needs, I am in no way a wordpress, K2 or code of any sort expert! You should treat the theme very much as a Beta release. For me, it works well and looks good, but I offer no guarantee that it will work for you. The code is pretty hacked, and there are probably more efficient and/oor elegant ways to achieve the same results. If you work them out, please let me know!
If you have any problems I'll be happy to try and help you fix them if I have the time, but please don't rely on it, or come complaining if it doesn't do what you hope!

***PLUGINS***

K2Nautilus requires the Custom Query String plugin to work properly. 
To get the K2 sidebar modules to work you MUST activate the 'disable wordpress widgets' plugin.

***INSTALL***
Upload the 'K2Nautilus' folder into your wp-content/themes folder. 
Upload the plugin files into your wp-content/plugins folder. 

***SETUP***
This is the setup I use, so it should work. Feel free to adapt to suit your own needs. 

*Under Options, Reading options -  "show at most 1 posts"

CQS  Options:
Add the following conditions:
is_archive Show -1 posts per page, ordered by date DESC
is_category Show -1 posts per page, ordered by date DESC
is_month Show -1 posts per page, ordered by date DESC 

K2 Options:
Enable advanced navigation
DO NOT enable archives page
Enable Live commenting
Style: select nautilus.css (light) or lightsout.css (dark)
Sidebar modules: It's up to you what you put here. 

Archives - to set up an archives page, create a page (manually, not using the K2 option) and under the page template section, select 'Photoblog Archives'. 

***HOW TO POST***

All of my images are hosted on flickr. However, I do not use the flickr 'blog this' option, as the API will only blog images up to 500px. I therefore manually paste the photo links into the wordpress posts. The same theory should work if you're uploading your own photos. You need full size images at 780px wide, and thumbnails at 75px square.

In the main post textbox, you need to paste the link to the full size image. The css will constrain an image of any size to fit the width of the template. HOWEVER, Safari will not maintain the image proportions and will distort your image. Therefore the best option is to specify an image width of 780px (no need to specify height). 

You can use the <!--more--> tag to split the post. Anything after this will only appear on the single post page, and will not show up on the main page. 

Important! You need to specify an optional excerpt for the archives pages to work. This is where you use your thumbnail image (in flickr you just use the url with '_s' at the end). No need for any links here. 

An example post:

<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/353698522_63ccacce48_b.jpg" alt="Vanilla Mocha" width="740px"/>
<!--more-->				
<p>Coffee of the week at Ladah, my new favourite coffee place in town.</p>

Optional Excerpt:
<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/353698522_63ccacce48_s.jpg">

That's all folks!