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It’s as “simple” as upgrading – the cascoly chart of network connections says you’re at 2.5.5
Read the detailed step-by-step instructions at the top of this post
Although it talks about an earlier 2.9.x upgrade, it will apply to you because of the version you’re currently on
@marthamarks wrote:
I just noticed that on my profile page, that newly added domain-specific email is now showing up with a check mark beside it.
This is ringing some vague bell – that I thought I’d messed something up with the e-mail but then continuing to work I noticed it was checked. Apparently intelligent error messages are hard – lots of software struggles when it comes to telling you clearly what has gone wrong. You’d think that, plus some hints as to how to fix it, would be the bare minimum for an error message…
You’ll get there, given enough cups of coffee/tea 🙂
The stats come from Google Webmaster tools. Click on your site, then on the left navigation bar, open up Search Appearance and click on Structured Data.
Regarding whether this is good for us or not, I think the way to look at it is that we cannot control the agency ranking – assuming we still sell via agencies. We can, I think, harness the placement they get and have it act in part for our benefit as well as theirs by making sure that anyone who sees the image knows who created it as well as which agency is representing it.
We’re swimming in shark infested waters – Google’s image search has changed things, but we can’t control that either. We could stop selling our work online, but if we don’t want to do that, then I think we have to figure out how to be the most benefit for us out of the realities around us
Aah. And you’re not putting that text into the Author Options panel of the Symbiostock admin interface (bee)? It’s labeled “Append Text to Title:” – I don’t use it and append says at the end to me, but it might be worth checking.
The only other time I’ve seen that text is if there’s nothing in the IPTC when I upload (I have a few images where one filed got left blank by accident).
The default text for title and caption is “Stock image by xxx” where your name is inserted for xxx. You can look in symbiostock_image_processor.php to see the code that sets that. However, when your IPTC is read you would never see the default.
If it’s just a test site, perhaps edit the file (it’s in themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor) and put what you want in there
I was referring to keywords including place information – if you think it belongs in the description as well, that’s more a judgment call.
The hover previews come from the premium plugin – something Leo added in a very recent update
I looked at this page and I don’t see “Stock Image:” anywhere
http://www.teamclipart.com/image/sun-cartoon-with-a-big-smile-vector-clipart-image
Do you see it on that page?
Great to see your site is live!
Couple of comments. In the slider, the overlay on the construction image spells photographer “fotographer”. In one example I happened to notice that you don’t include some keywords that I think would be helpful
http://focusstockphoto.net/image/autumn-hike-nordic-walking/
netherlands and canal would seem to be important to this image but they’re missing. When something in the scenery, or an activity done a particular way, is specific to an area, it really helps to include that information. I usually include a city or state and an area – for a picture like this one, you might put Friesland, Netherlands, canal, and if there’s a name for that particular canal, add that too. (obviously I’ve no idea where this image is, so I just made up Friesland),
I sent him a PM via MSG
In the thread where we talked about this bug last year, several other people saw exactly the same thing, so I know it isn’t just my site.
I have two licenses – standard and extended (of the new license type). I would select a category of images in the batch editor and then go to Settings and whatever dialog to select those two licenses and which one was the default (so you clicked the box that said edit specific items and then the two licenses and the default box for Standard license.
Then submit that. You get the two licenses added but all the sizes for the images in that category are the max (5616 on the long edge for most of my images) – blog, small, medium and large keep their prices but their image sizes get changed to the original image size.
I was able to fix this (once I noticed it) by going back to the batch editor and making changes to the blog, small and medium sizes (and thankfully, the original sizes which vary were not homogenized by the bug).
This wiped out my licenses (which it shouldn’t have as I wasn’t checking the boxes for changing licenses) but I’d rather not be selling a full size image at a blog price than offer an extended license.
If you look at the menus in the WordPress admin panel, do you see the sub-menu items that don’t show as they should, or have they “disappeared” from the definition of the menu?
There is an article that gets quite technical, but it explains how a lack of resources on the server can cause loss of menu items, and I’m wondering if this might apply in your case?
Wasn’t this the site using SYxtra? If that plugin is active, does deactivating it change how the menus behave?
Might be worth stripping things back to “basics” just to see where the problem lies – I don’t recall any other menu problems except the WordPress mess-up if you had too many menu items (which this certainly doesn’t). In that case – you and I think Martha had seen this? – it wasn’t the categories but having them on the menus that blew WordPress’ brains out
Thanks – I just sent a PM via MSG to let her know
I think that’s Bluehost’s address
No.
Leo could make a user interface for the number to be plugged in as a user preference, but unless/until that happens, editing the hardwired settings in the php file is your only option.
This isn’t a dashboard sort of edit – unless you lift the entire function from the main theme’s functions.php and make your own via Appearance -> Editor from the WP dashboard.
While it’s not ideal to edit theme files directly – because they’ll be overwritten with the next upgrade – and while it is possible to put new functions into the child theme’s functions.php, various people have had problems when trying to modify a parent function from the child’s version of functions.php
If you do go ahead and edit functions.php, keep an unedited copy of the file (in case you make a mistake) and keep a copy of your edits locally so you can update a new version of Symbiostock (unless it has this as a user-selectable parameter, in which case you’re all set).
