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Right – in the search on my live site I’m seeing images that show up that shouldn’t.
I went to Cathy’s life and did a search (she’s in my network) and a search there for border will have those images show up on my site.
Not sure about external search engines, but it makes the search look broken or makes me look like a keyword spammer!
I can’t explain that difference – I checked the copy of the file I grabbed from the live site (which I keep so I can check on changes between versions) and that says panel panel-default (I was worried I had an old file).
BTW I love those pumpkins – and especially the background you chose of orange and yellow flowers (marigolds?) that really give such a great feel to the shot
While I was exclusive at iStock, I uploaded JPEGs in AdobeRGB (I’ve always used that as my working space, but used to convert to sRGB as part of the convert to 8 bit, flatten and save as a JPEG for uploading). They were the only site at the time that handled that properly – converting the thumbs to sRGB and I think the XS and S sizes, providing the rest to the customer as AdobeRGB
When I left exclusivity there were too many microstock sites that just didn’t do the right thing in displaying AdobeRGB images, so I switched back to uploading sRGB (and converted all the JPEGs I’d made in my 3 years of exclusivity).
Ideally, a customer could buy a 16 bit layered PSD file in whatever color space they wanted for maximum fidelity, but for most day to day uses, it appears to work well for most customers to have a high resolution sRGB file. The only images where it gave me a hard time when I converted was some very vivid turqouise Caribbean water – because of the differences in the gamuts of the two color spaces.
I’ve downloaded a few of my own images (as part of testing PayPal) and I don’t get any profile warnings from Photoshop (which warns me if an image has no profile), so I think that you’ll get the profile you embedded when you uploaded. The issue is that the thumbs will look bad and possibly discourage buyers. I did test that embedded clipping paths were preserved as well, and they are.
Unless you’re not going to upload to microstock sites, I think that the path of least resistance is to convert to sRGB for uploads…
10 is a bug – see here for how to fix. It didn’t affect all users (I never saw it)
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/471/total-thumbnails-per-page/
And if you want more than 24 you need to change some code – see here for what needs to happen:
Editorial-Use-Only wouldn’t show up as it isn’t in the description string as a whole word (I have whole word only checked to avoid finding things in the middle of a larger word).
So width, height, editorial use only (with spaces), border, margin, class, img and so on all turn up the 48 editorial images currently uploaded.
I don’t think changing the status of the gif will help as it’s the text string (HTML) in the description of my image that’s being found, and that will still be there
I should have made clear – I don’t see either Featured or Similar on Steve’s site. I’m using Chrome 30.0.1599.101 on Mac OSX 10.8.5. I also tried Firefox (25.0) and can’t see them there either.
Thanks for the link. I signed up too – I have done a lot of things with WP but I don’t really know anything about it 🙂
I think Featured and Similar images are working fine at the moment for WP 3.7.1 and Symbiostock 2.9.4. This page on my site has both working as expected:
http://www.digitalbristles.com/author/joannadmin/
If you look at the differences between your site and mine, it appears that all the elements and links are going into the panel but the part of the reference that should include the minipic image is blank (lots of spaces).
That makes me wonder if the database is somehow not aware of the new location of all the images? I had used a neat plugin that managed to update all the links after a move that The McKie’s had recommended – Velvet Blues. I wonder if that could help?
I’ve changed what I was doing a little bit because I wanted to put just a teaser on the front page to look at a gallery of thumbs for various categories. This is also properly responsive on small displays.
The gallery page is made using Gallery Pro and is accessed either through the teaser on the front page (above) or via the menus
http://www.digitalbristles.com/gallery/categories/
I made those thumbs myself – they aren’t derived from the uploaded images. I had my teaser on the front page downsize the 250 x 202 to 125 x 101 so they didn’t overwhelm
This is an old thread, but for completeness, I thought I’d update this with my current code, which includes removing the big image number at the top of the right column in a standard 2.9.x/Dragonfly version of the site.
content-image.php (included one line prior to my changes to locate where to start)
<a id="stock-image-preview" title="" rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href=""> <img itemprop="contentURL image" class="photo img-responsive" alt="" src=""/>
<?php //code "borrowed" from symbiostock_marketer() in marketer_functions.php
// model release
$id = get_the_ID();
$model_released = get_post_meta( $id, 'symbiostock_model_released', 'N/A' );
if ( empty( $model_released ) || $model_released == false ) {
$model_released[ 0 ] = 'N/A';
} //empty( $model_released ) || $model_released == false
//property release
$property_released = get_post_meta( $id, 'symbiostock_property_released', 'N/A' );
if ( empty( $property_released ) || $property_released == false ) {
$property_released[ 0 ] = 'N/A';
} //empty( $property_released ) || $property_released == false
?>
Image No. ? Model Released: ? Property Released:
and a little later, to remove the big image number:
<!--
Image #
-->
Thanks for posting that.
At the top of my list I show two views for blank – no text is shown other than the underscore lead in. What could that be? I looked at some other sites and found a couple of others that had this, but most did not.
I found it interesting that Boston, New Hampshire, Texas and Washington had no views, although the more general ones and Arizona & Maine did have views
I have seen this new behavior too, so I figured it was intentional (as part of the removal of display of sub categories). I’m working with/around this by consolidating and re-arranging the menus.
So in the case of your Cupcakes menu I would put in an entry at the top “All cupcakes” or “Browse cupcakes” (or something like that).
BTW your site – and your wonderful images of cakes – are a delight 🙂
I have the entries in the media library but no thumbs showing in the list. If I edit or view that minipic I can see it. I know at some point in the past I used to be able to see Symbiostock uploaded images in the media library, but I almost never go to the library (I looked after I read your post) so I have no idea when these disappeared.
I was adding images in the last couple of days to a gallery plugin that I’m using to make a visual browse categories page, and those images show up in the media library list with thumbnails. I looked at the earliest images in the media library (from my blog, prior to this being a Symbiostock site) and they have thumbnails.
In other words it appears to be just the Symbiostock thumbnails that the list view doesn’t display.
As you said, site operation appears to be fine. I did a manual upgrade to 3.7.1 a few days ago.
I thought I’d update this topic as i’d realized a few of the things that were making Dragonfly on a mobile device look so broken could be changed.
A big issue was the choice of menu style – I had the default, anchored to the top of the window. I didn’t have many menu items, but as each one is displayed one under the other on an iPhone screen, and then the search box is displayed, that fills the entire screen and there’s no room for all the pages that load – effectively invisibly.
With a top anchored menu, you can’t scroll it off the screen.
First I cut the number of menu items, but that didn’t leave enough space for anything usable.
So now I’ve switched to the “under header” menu. I’m happy with that and it makes the whole front page scrollable on an iPhone so you can actually use the site.
I suspect that this is a lot more complex than just the code issues, and those are complex enough.
For coding, having some sort of source code control and system for merging changes if necessary would be needed. Is there something free out there we could use? Dropbox might be fine for making files available but without some sort of source code control we’d be in chaos in no time.
If multiple people are making changes, who gets to decide if there’s been enough testing to release the results as a new version? If someone drops off the radar and doesn’t want to fix what they edited (and broke), does that mean Leo or some other person has to step in and try to repair things. Upgrades can be a big deal (depending on the changes) and if they become painful, sites will stop updating.
As far as the non code things, I recall some discussions in MSG about centralizing a number of things – a license or prices or other aspects of sites. I’ve come to see that part of the reason that Symbiostock works is that I don’t have to have my site look, be priced or behave the same way as everyone else. If changes to the system happen, versus code modifications I make myself for just my site, what if half the sites don’t like them?
I think we need ways to share CSS, functions, code modifications and possibly plugins if there are some key features (hover previews and a loupe to see details, as an example that’s close to my heart!). I think the loose configuration of very heterogeneous sites that is Symbiostock might find that is better suited to the wide variability of preferences and site types than a central system with multiple developers and no central person “in control”.
