Symbiostock as a Finished Product

That’s sounds good Leo. I remember an old thread about a final touch instead of adding features. I think that your effort is very, very very great but is also too much stressing and you need to slow down. Take your time and put your effort to refine only this things. Good idea to keep the theme more simple as possible, and to me is important if new developers come on board. Perhaps is it time for Symbiostock to have a board? For the future I think that the best thing for you is to keep update the theme with WP. Also, I’m not you, but probably for you the best thing for the future is to think at modularity, so maybe you can produce plugin for the theme and earn a little bit of deserved money… The base theme as is as is good, specially in conjunction with the premium plugin and don’t need other feature; who want more I think that can pay a little bit.

@shazamimages wrote:

Leo:

I don’t think that is a good direction for you. You should concentrate on how to get others to help develop Symbiostock.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

You need to stop giving everyone fish. The sooner you teach everyone how to fish, the sooner you will be free to do other things.

I see where your coming from – however this is like teaching people calculus directly after addition and subtraction in 1st grade.

This direction I’m taking is going to solve virtually every issue, especially getting new developers.

For instance, instead of Symbiostock having its own cart, its going to use wp-ecommerce, and the upload and image creation process will automatically generate product pages. The advantage here is that you can track sales, use different payment gateways, upgrade, offer video, etc, and best of all, not bother me with bugs 😀 <— thats part a joke.

Rewriting the system to create a codex, translation: Online function documention will be automatically generated, allowing genuine developers to hit the ground running.

Basically, in a nutshell, is that Symbiostock will be about stock, not just images…and simply be a plugin that merges specialized technologies, instead of reinventing each one.

Already my research in this is showing me a way to use WordPress’s uploader to upload to specific folders (also protected) which is superior to the one I’m using already, and support and upgrades are WORDPRESS based, not Symbiostock.

And I’m going to design this in such a way that interdependence between technologies is flexible, meaning its hard to break.

Also the transition will be easy – I’m going to make a converter plugin that will automatically create old Symbiostock image pages to genuine wp-ecommerce pages, without sacrificing any features at all.

Bad idea? Its already appearing to be simpler as well.

@Semmick Photo wrote:

Sounds good, I am happy to hear the new approach, sounds so much different than The End of Symbiostock 🙂

Yep. That wasn’t a message any of us wanted or needed to hear. :/