[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I hadn’t realized this before (but I don’t think it’s new) – the excellent Global search engine has a very nice hover preview for images

http://www.symbiostock.info/index2.php?search_item=sunny&search_order=1

I notice that the preview is not part of Andrzej own site (http://ajotte.com/) which I find surprising, but if the preview works for search, couldn’t we (please Andrzej?) use it for our sites as well?

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I am at 3.7.1 (with Symbiostock 2.9.4 and 1.2.5) and all is well.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I’m a moderator, but I didn’t change the title of this. You should be able to edit your original post to change the title yourself if you aren’t able to get things working using the steps in those links.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I didn’t get e-mail when I added you or you added me – I used the URL method for the first time this time. Previously I did get notifications (and I checked my spam folders just in case).

I used to (when I used symbiocards to add a site) get e-mail when I added someone that said:

Your network friend was notified that you added them, and recieved this message:

Jo Ann Snover has added you to their site network.
If you have not yet added them to your site, here is their Symbiocard: http://www.digitalbristles.com/blog/symbiocard.csv

See their network info at the author page: http://www.digitalbristles.com/author/joannadmin/

About Network Emails…

And when someone added me I would get:

has added you to their site network.
If you have not yet added them to your site, here is their Symbiocard: http://site-name/symbiocard.csv

See their network info at the author page: http://site-name.com/author/username/

About Network Emails…

Not sure how much it matters as there are ways to check on these things without the e-mail, but the e-mail was a nice alert to have.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I followed the instructions in the third link (savorywatt) and things are now working correctly again – I see the name and address of the sender and I can reply to their message.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I have used this for ages and it used to work.

I tested it this evening and it no longer gives me the e-mail of the user who sent the message!

I found a number of threads on this – it appears to be widespread, but people are saying it’s to do with certain hosting companies and what mailing stuff WordPress included with the 3.6 and 3.7 upgrades (apparently some out of date files went out).

I haven’t sorted out a fix for me (I have a Bluehost hosted site) but here are the discussions I found

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-36-doesnt-work-with-cf7

http://wordpress.shadowlantern.com/how-to-make-contact-form-7-work-on-bluehost/

http://savorywatt.com/2012/10/10/fix-contact-form-7-not-working-with-dreamhost/

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Have a look at this thread

http://www.symbiostock.org/post/1223/#p1223

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I’m lost – did I miss a new feature? I have no idea what you’re referring to.

Where would I turn this on, or if it’s a plugin, can you tell me what it’s called or where I can find it?

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I do a lot of post processing, but honestly, I don’t care for the treatment you gave the chipmunk. It just “shouts” Photoshop filters the minute you look at it, IMO.

It’s a bit like with HDR – using it to extend the dynamic range of the camera to more closely match our eyes produces spectacular results, but going overboard with super-saturated colors and extreme contrast just takes away from the scene rather than adding to it.

I think playing around with various treatments for images is a really good way to figure out what you like and don’t, but I wouldn’t put that one on sale – keep it for your experiments folder 🙂

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

From the main WP left navigation bar, Users->Your Profile

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

xxx/wp-admin/profile.php

You need to fill in the first name (in my case) or in yours apparently put your name vs. Leo’s! No idea why things were done this way, but I hadn’t filled in first or last name on that page (it’s your general WP Profile – Users -> Your Profile)

It really is funny – if you look at the text if you hover over the wrongly named “Contact Leo” it says correctly “Contact Steve Heap”!

The two strings used are symbiostock_display_name (correct) and symbiostock_first_name (wrong).

 
<a itemprop="" class="symbiostock_contact_author contact author ssref" title="Contact " href="">  Contact 

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I replied in the other thread to your CSS questions. Best to keep things to one thread or it gets too confusing

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

You can find out (usually) where to make the changes by using Chrome’s Inspect Element. Right click on the item you want to modify and select Inspect Element and it will open up the developer tools window. For your image description, for example, I changed your page (in the window just to see if it worked) to add

.entry-content, .entry-summary {
color: white;
}

Which produced this (click to see full size):

You’ll need to transfer the changes you decide on to style.css (for Dragonfly you can use Appearance-> Editor; for other child themes you can use Edit CSS)

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I ran into these problems when I first set up my site which I had done the same way as you.

After some hassles (and Leo saying he’d work on a fix for it, but then finding even with that fix, plugins wouldn’t work either without a separate fix for each of those) found that using a subdomain for that subdirectory would work.

Another user – (http://stock.tdahlphotography.com/) – mentioned that a subdomain worked for him without any of the problems I had found just using a subdirectory.

I didn’t want to have the subdomain visible, so I re-arranged some domains on my site so that I could assign digitalbristles.com (my site) to a subdomain that pointed to my WordPress subdirectory. If you have your primary domain as AnsharImages.com, you’ll need another domain name for the new primary and to get your hosting company to switch it for you if you want the name of your Symbiostock site to be just http://AnsharImages.com

I use Bluehost and it took them only about 5 minutes to make the changeover for me.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I changed mine a bit – to tighten it up – by modifying the CSS for dragonfly

/* modal login dialog  very spread out*/

.modal-header, .modal-body, #register-form h3, #register-form  h2{

margin-top: 2px;

margin-bottom: 5px;

}

.form-group {

margin-bottom: 6px;

}

.modal-footer {

padding: 5px 5px 5px;

margin-top: 5px;

}

/* smaller heading just for this form */

#register-form  h2, div.modal-body.panel-body h2.entry-title{

font-size: 24px;

}

You can see the whole set of CSS customizations I did here:

http://www.symbiostock.org/post/4860/#p4860

Making the items side by side would require some code changes – as would shortening the text boxes. What I did was a small improvement rather than a big overhaul.

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