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Hi everyone.
I hate bothering people or nagging anyone for answers but I cannot find the answers for myself. I have read almost everything on this board a lot of what is on the Microstock Group forum. So now it’s time to ask. I’ve spent a day or two reading and I am no closer to being able to launch my site publically because of this. It’s very frustrating.
How do I get the Standard License/Extended License options? I read this post by Leo which gives us the code but I cannot get any info as to how to use it and where to place it.
I have also read over and over about the “Premium Upgrade Plugin” but there is no mention of it anywhere, never mind how one can buy it. Perhaps I am missing the obvious and please bear in mind I have only started with Symbiostock a few days ago. This link…
http://www.symbiostock.com/products-page/upgrades-and-plugins/
.. just takes you to the same front page as many other links I picked up along my reading.
Essentially I need to create different licenses for simple reasons. I have microstock on many different sites. Those prices cannot be changed so I don’t want my site to compete with them. Looking forward, I want to have RM files which will be exclusive to my site. Gradually I would love to completely do away with the RF license altogether.
Currently I have one option and one license I can define as per the Symbiostock set up. I have seen other Symbiostock sites with some of these options in place. So if someone would be so kind as to take the time out to help, I’d most appreciate it.
I have little experience with WordPress but I do know about webdesign so if it is a manual customisation that is ok!
Thanks 🙂
Jo
You *should* be able to purchase the Professional Plug-in which is required for the other licences options from symbiostock.com but as you say it appears to be broken at the moment, the upgrade links just take you back to the front page – or a page that looks like the front page.
Until the professional plug-in was available some of us mentioned within the site that if potential clients contacted us we would offer different licences.
Hopefully Leo will spot this thread and be able to fix the site, I think he mentioned he was working on something else today and tomorrow but as he is in a different time zone I have no idea whether his today was yesterday or tomorrow
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http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtThanks for replying! I thought I was going a little nuts with working late night hours. I do hope that it’s not too expensive or going to take too long to be available.
I think what I will do is just write my “Red tape” as planned, upload it and then launch the site. I’m almost done on my end except for one or two logos and such.
The site is at http://stockyimage.com/
Jo
You can add the additional licences at any time – the plug-in is $75. When you do get it go a little carefully to start with if you have lots of licences/ratings set as until Leo fixes a couple of glitches adding licences can overwrite them but you can get around this.
Your site is looking good, I especially like the changing pictures in the header behind your logo – how did you do that?
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http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail Art@christine wrote:
You can add the additional licences at any time – the plug-in is $75. When you do get it go a little carefully to start with if you have lots of licences/ratings set as until Leo fixes a couple of glitches adding licences can overwrite them but you can get around this.
Your site is looking good, I especially like the changing pictures in the header behind your logo – how did you do that?
Firstly: Ok, when you say you can “additional licences at any time” do you mean with the standard package (if so how? Hehe) or by purchasing the Plugin?
Secondly: Thanks! 🙂
Thirdly: Since I started off on this latest beta version of Symbiostock, I learnt it all from scratch by poking around. When you upload images for the Header (Appearance > Header) I realised that there was a radio button that says “Random: Show a different image on each page.”
When you upload an image it sets it as the header for all pages but you can then go back and tick the “Random” radio button and it randomly loads one of your “Header” images you uploaded. So make a few and upload them.
When I realised this I converted my logo to a transparent overlay and I thought it worked well. As for figuring out the sizes I just used the random upload and test method! Just remember to delete your tests or duplicates etc. so they aren’t forgotten and loading randomly LOL!
Very roughly, if you create an image 1200×250 pixels, it will work both at full screen width and then it will reduce the width (progressively cutting off the image from the right to left) as you make the browser window smaller.
The actual HEIGHT of the Header image works according to your Logo image. I padded my Logo Top and Bottom with transparency in order to force the header to show more of my Header image. Normally it is just the height of your logo and no more. My Logo PNG file is 500x168px so I’m guessing that I’m viewing about 170 to 180 pixels of the top of my actual header.
Last note, when you upload your image for the Header it follows to the next screen where you can either “crop your image” or “skip cropping” it. You can just skip cropping it if you have sized your image before uploading. You could just upload a full sized image and then crop it online but I think it is better to reduce the images to the right size and apply a little sharpening before uploading.
Hope this is clear and helps 🙂
Jo
Hi, thanks for that explanation. I will have to explore the 2.7.1 more closely (I am only using it on my testing site at tulip.kerioak.com at the moment, not my real site.) I have just added a header now to match the background image – just two little white pillars to try and dispose of now.
There are no instructions for the latest version yet – it has only been around for a few days and I do not know about other people but I like to become comfortable with something before I add start adding tutorials etc 🙂
Licences – you can only add them with the professional plug in, but this can be done at any time. I have only had them for a few weeks since the plug in was released – as has everyone else who is using them. Some people like the plug in for twitter, others for collections and I wanted the licences. I have found it is best to put all the versions of your licence on one page as (at the moment anyway) the links only go to the standard licence, from the image, download and sale emails.
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http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtYes, I’m calling it all the “Red Tape”. Everything in one. Simple English, what you can do and what you can’t or you will get spanked!
Your site Header loads the same colour image as your background at the moment.
Thats strange. I’ll get right on that — it should be available!!!
Everything is back up now.
Thanks again!
Jo
Good morning. I have again that strange error when I apply a licence to my images, this time in the new site http://www.stockphotos.ezeepics.com
This time I applied a standard licence and I got this error: Warning: Illegal string offset ‘added_price’ in /home1/luxurys8/public_html/stockphotos/wp-content/plugins/ss-professional/functions.php on line 783
Please can you help me Leo? Thank you,Somebody else reported this. I’m working on it today. Can you resend the admin rights I have for your site so I can address this? Also send me a link to the page so I know exactly which page is throwing it.
Ok, Leo, thank you very much I’ll send you the page and the pass in your email.
Thanks. I got my music going, coffee…now I’m just sitting here anxiously waiting for a login email 🙂
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