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— I echo the comments about the batch editor – I can’t offer extended licenses because of bugs. I think it’s very important to be able to set a default for licenses so that all new uploads get your choice of licenses without requiring a trip to the batch editor. Something appeared in the UI for that but it has never worked.
— PicturEngine integration may not be a priority (I think Justin said only 16 sites of over 160 have signed up for the trial) but it needs to be simpler – I think it needs to operate like the site map. You turn the option on and it just updates every 24 hours automatically.
— I looked at Cascoly’s list and for item 31 (showing model/property releases on the image page), I’ve implemented that for my site – see this example
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/boat-ramp-into-lake-at-sunrise/
The code for that is on GitHub if you want to grab it. This isn’t a high priority for me as I already have it 🙂
— I made widget changes for Similar and Latest images so it’d ask you for number of images (and number of columns) as a number of people had asked about changing that. Some people don’t like modifying the code, so although this isn’t a bug fix, it’d be nice to see it incorporated in the theme if that’s possible
See this thread for info viewtopic.php?f=5&t=998
— Lots of people have asked about changing the number of images per page in search results/category listings. Rather than changing code, how about a UI option (like for the text on the download/add to cart button) that lets the user pick?
— Sort search results by Newest, Ranking (1 2 and 3) or Random
— Remove hardwired horizontal rules from the code so formatting is entirely CSS driven
–Can you incorporate the fixes to schema.org categories that were giving structured data errors in Google’s rich snippets tool? It’d be nice also to have the changes for establishing Google Authorship (see my blog poston that). The code parts are in items 5(b) 6 and 7.
This forum post talks about the code changes to get rid of the last two errors (there was a more detailed post on that in the old forum). The files are on GitHub
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=993&p=9773
I have more small fixes that I’ll not mention unless you run out of things to do 🙂
Right now there are no sales reporting mechanisms or stats in Symbiostock. If there were to be a version that allowed an artist to start a collective – very much like WarmPicture I assume – there would have to be a way to identify which artist made the sale and a way to make a list of all sales and prices/royalties for that sale.
Do you think that WordPress Multi Site might help make this sort of thing possible?
http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/beginner-guide-wordpress-multisite/
Same thing would have happened there. The good news is that the batch editor breakage doesn’t mess up the large size (full size) – at least if you have only one set of pixel dimensions for blog, small and medium.
You can use the batch editor to set just those three sizes to whatever your site uses and it’ll leave the large size alone.
The only bad news is that when you make that edit you’ll wipe out your licenses.
I know all of this because I went down this road a while back after the licensing stuff in the premium version was given its own type of post.
I’ve temporarily abandoned offering extended licenses until these problems get fixed.
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the keyword delete all has been there from the beginning — I confirmed it over several versions
when testing I found a keyword that had only a few uses, then used batch to try to delete from several of them -0 it alwas deleted the entire keyword (same for category)
I have a test site and added 16 images to it. I added one keyword to all the images and a different one to 6. I then used the batch editor to delete one or both of those keywords from selected images. I checked that the remaining images kept their keywords both by doing a new search in the batch editor and by visually inspecting the image pages.
Whatever the bug is, there’s some other factor required to make it happen
I did notice some very odd behavior, however.
I removed selected keywords that had been read from IPTC when the image was uploaded from a few images. In one case I removed all an image’s keywords. When I did a batch editor search for a removed keyword, the images that no longer had that keyword still showed up!
If I went to the site to search for the missing keyword (and I picked one, horizontal, that doesn’t show up in the description or title) the images were found even though the keyword was gone – and that included the image that had no keywords at all.
So, the keywords added with the batch editor were subtracted as expected (and the images were no longer found by the batch editor or a search on the site). But keywords that had been there when the image was uploaded acted for search purposes as if they were still there, although they did not show up on the image page if you looked at it.
It didn’t work fine to reprocess with new licenses – all your image sizes (I checked one, but I assume all are hosed in the same way) are the same from blogee through Large.
On the WordPress side I use Jetpack’s stats, but the cPanel is something Bluehost (my hosting company) uses to let me manage the site. There are some stats options you can enable – it doesn’t collect them until you turn the option on, but they’re free. You’ll have to see what your hosting company offers.
alexa.com is where you’d go to plug in your site URL to get the info. You can see the other Symbiostock sites’ rankings in Cascoly’s list
As far as setting up network partners for your site, you to the Symbiostock (bee) tab in WordPress and pick some
I don’t think you can – without changing code that is
I just got a call from Justin at PicturEngine – apparently they have some sort of flag that goes up when someone goes repeatedly to certain pages, indicating they might need help 🙂
He first said that only 54 images were processed because there is no license type (the XML file has for every image), but I pointed out that every entry in the file was that way and yet 54 got processed.
He then wiped my account of images and set a new “fetch” in motion and it’s now grabbing everything. There is some initial “grab” of images, daily “updates” and something he described as an audit every couple of weeks which does some sort of checking.
The action item for Leo from this conversation is that license_type needs to be specified and PicturEngine is expecting RF or RM for the type. Justin talked at length about varying license types scaring buyers off, but that’s a conversation for another thread 🙂
Justin also mentioned that some Symbiostock sites had accounts but had not put their marketer number into their PicturEngine account – and that without that no images will get sent over.
He also mentioned that he wasn’t going to start charging for advertising-only clients until they’d been advertising PicturEngine for a month. I asked if he’d keep us up to date on when that started and he said we’d get e-mail giving us a month’s notice when that happens.
I had seen some Shutterstock images showing up on PicturEngine (not mine) and asked about that. He said that they had some database issues and are rebuilding their Shutterstock database, and that they had not yet enabled duplicate removal (where any images an advertising-only Symbiostock site had on Shutterstock would be removed where they were duplicates of a Symbiostock image).
Justin also mentioned wanting a delete function – that he had talked with Leo about it before – so PicturEngine knows to remove something from their database that was previously there. I’m guessing from that request that the absence of the image from the XML isn’t enough to get it deleted from PicturEngine. It would be pretty easy, if it was just one or two, to delete that image from PicturEngine directly, so I’m not sure this is all that important.
If you reactivate the theme (activate any other theme and then activate Symbiostock again) it should be recreated. Creating a new one by hand with the same name doesn’t work (I tried this on a test site the last time this issue came up).
An update from this morning’s check. The images PicturEngine “sees” are now searchable, but I still see only 54 images (in the photographer account section) in spite of my XML file from my Symbiostock site saying there are 1,353
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3.1.2The interval (in the account settings area) is set to daily and a few new images were picked up after the initial batch, so it’s not the case that PicturEngine isn’t retrieving updates to the file.
The only other thing to note is that the 54 images I can see on PicturEngine include a few from the first “page” of my XML file (and why are there pages for a file like this? – seems bizarre) but the bulk are from the portion of it I can’t view (item 2 from original post)
The first thing I’d do, I think, is look at the cPanel and stats for my site to see what it had to say about visits – to try and get an idea of whether Google’s stats were no longer tracking you or whether visits really dropped that much.
Did you keep track of your Alexa ranking before? It’s over 2 million. I also noticed that you don’t have any network links outbound, and I can’t check on the inbound as you’re not on Cascoly’s list. Did you cut those out in December?
Regarding the comment about the changes showing up – I was referring to the view of images in the photographer account interface, not publicly visible.
In my list of Images , I saw three new ones I added last night, so it obviously picked up some changes. I don’t know why it didn’t pick up the edits to the one I modified.
I can’t see the whole XML file (item 2) so I don’t know if my changes made it to the XML file or not.
I no longer have any licenses other than standard (because when I tried to add my extended license the batch editor messed with image sizes and when I fixed the image sizes it removed the licenses) so I don’t know if it works or not.
I’d given up – temporarily – on licenses until some bugs were fixed.
If you change one image so it just has a default license, does that work?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/specifying-images-license-using-rdfa.html
I’m going to watch the video, but I think it would be a mistake to label images as free to reuse in markup and then try to license them for money.
Somebody else had this problem – maybe Cathy’s Life? – and no, it isn’t expected that you get a second e-mail with a random password. I don’t recall what the problem was though and search isn’t finding the thread (it may have been in that missing 6 weeks).
Perhaps PM Cathy?
