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I think I put a post together about this issue before, but it’s about how WordPress looks for files and the order in which it does this.
style.css and functions.php are special, and there are issues with theme files that are in subdirectories off the main theme directory, but you can read some more about this issue here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
http://themeshaper.com/2009/04/17/wordpress-child-theme-basics/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19039492/override-a-function-with-child-themes-functions-phphttp://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-include-subdirectories-and-their-files-in-a-child-theme
In some cases, things can be made much simpler where the parent theme checks to see if a function exists, so making it easier to customize would be best done by making a change to the parent theme to do that, so our child theme files could then include a variant of that function.
But even that approach has limits; if the parent theme updates the function you’ve modified to include new features, your child theme function will need changes too or those new features will be missing.
At some point – when things are really stable – it’d be nice to go and fix up things to make code (not just style sheet) modifications easier.
I think Leo was having a bad evening yesterday, and I think it’s worth remembering that the project is open source, so everything you see right now in the 170+ sites is “safe” in any event because all the code is available to all of us.
There were a number of things about the theme Cathy migrated to that I didn’t much care for, but we’re all independent artists and can choose PhotoShelter, kTools or other WP themes.
If you’re Sean Locke, you have a Symbiostock site and a PhotoShelter store (and he used to have a kTools site but chose not to build on that once he left iStock exclusivity).
There’s plenty of room for lots of options, but I think AJT’s global search of all of our sites really drives home why Symbiostock is a good way to go if you want to host your own sales platform
Welcome. Glad to see you’ve been able to get started uploading.
Not sure about gurus, but there are plenty of us who have sites up and running who can probably answer any questions 🙂
You can see the choices available with Dragonfly (free child theme that comes with Symbiostock) here:
My site is based on Slate, but doesn’t look anything like it because I customized the look a bit. You can see how that’s done here:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=390&start=15#p10507
Regarding the first two questions, I won’t repeat my answers on MSG – let’s see if anyone else has tried to incorporate that plugin. I very much doubt that anyone has though as there’s been quite a bit of discussion over issues surrounding logins and no one has ever mentioned it.
@shelma1 wrote:
I think the Symbiostock idea is really newsworthy. A great thing would be to get a really popular blogger in the design field to write us up, or to get some press in the trade pubs. Unfortunately I’m not in PR, so I have no idea how to go about doing that. But if someone knows a popular blogger, I can write something up to submit to them.
I don’t, but your post did make me think about how Symbiostock is a follow on to crowdsourcing in a way. So I reached out to the guy who wrote articles about Bruce Livingstone (iStock) for Wired to see if he’s interested or knows someone who is.
I’ll try and see if I can find out what the top designer blogs are…
@crackerclips wrote:
I also wanted to report that we had a $50 sale yesterday for front page website use by a major international hotel chain. …
Congrats
It’d be nice to be able to exclude oneself – via IP address that we input or better, automatically (if we were logged in as an admin, for example, exclude visits ’cause admin users aren’t buyers).
This is what mine shows:
SITE,”# REFERRALS”
NULL,10167
symbiostock.info,256
http://www.digitalbristles.com,27What does this mean? NULL is sending me a lot of stuff, and why am I sending things to myself?
I blog about things (a) sporadically and (b) across a range of photography, post processing and Symbiostock topics, so I’m not sure if it’s useful to you:
Not sure about the missing keywords and categories, but for the similar images, that’s a widget that needs to be in the sidebar “Image Page Side”.
Is it possible that you removed it?
No, but I received e-mail from Alamy this morning encouraging me to upload again (I stopped a while ago) and to follow them: “In the meantime, if you’re on Twitter you can keep up to date with all things Alamy by following @AlamyContent.”
I’m guessing they’re trying to join the 21st century, but so much of their business practice is deeply rooted in rather old-fashioned ways that it rings rather hollow to me
It’s in symbiostock_image_results_per_page in functions.php
I have the latest versions and my similar images are still working, so it’s not Symbiostock per se that’s causing the problem…
@365imagery wrote:
Also think about future growth .. what happens when you mass market your stock site and have to move up to a dedicated server .. your $8 a month godaddy account with unlimited bandwidth just turned into a $1200 a month bill for only 2 TB of bandwidth. Having a huge pool of designers re-dowloading for free will force you into bankruptcy in a matter of months. That’s why I would rate this as one of the top priorities from a business standpoint.
I can’t disagree, but right now that’s a theoretical problem and one I would love to have – (a) because it’s easily solved once the site has grown and (b) because I think our biggest issue is growing the network so we have this problem 🙂
The high priority things to address now would be things that would be hard to change at a later date, or things that stand in the way of us growing sales and the customer base.
Welcome. Some gorgeous images there – I have to confess that the moldy bread and fruit series wasn’t as appealing to look at!. I loved this butterfly shot – such great colors:
