Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Yea!
Did you follow the exact sequence Leo laid out in this post when updating to 2.9.x for the first time?
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/411/290-important-update/
The other thing is that you need to have Dragonfly as your child theme to see the editor for it – could you have gone back to another child theme?
The Editor option wasn’t there before 2.9.x and possibly the fact that you’re not seeing it has to do with how you upgraded?. I have the customizer still turned on and see the Editor option, so I don’t think turning off the customizer will make any difference.
I think contributor tools is a fine long term goal, but I wouldn’t want any development time spent on this now given the list of things for the operation of the site that still need work.
If it’s therapy you are looking for (i.e. some code that isn’t the existing set of problems) then OK 🙂 I’d prefer something that runs in a browser, not something that you download to a PC or Mac (because that means worrying about PC/Mac/Linux support and stuff that you probably wouldn’t want to tackle).
I’d think a WP plugin to add contributor functionality would be the way to go – the project is so linked to WP that making a part of it not be seems not to add any value.
I’d like to see a detailed sales report sortable by image number, date, number of sales for images, downloads per month of images, image size/type.
Sales per month and per year (downloads and $$)
Other nice things would be to track a particular image’s sales over time; earnings for content uploaded in a particular time period (all the earnings in 2016 for files uploaded in 2013, for example :))
The more elaborate reports (like in some of those paid add-ons for microstock sites) would definitely be something you could have as a paid option.
But we need sales in volume before any of these become relevant though 🙂
@quailrunphotos wrote:
In Google WebMaster is a report called HTML improvements. This report will show you duplicate titiles and other information. I have been play with this information updating my images and it is gradually improving the % of images indexed.
Thanks for pointing this out – I didn’t know about this. I’ve been trying to clean up duplicates as I publish images, but apparently I have missed 32 duplicates (which isn’t too awful out of nearly 1,000 uploads with a fair number of series where originally I had used a common title for the series, changing only the description). I’ll try and get those fixed
If you look at the page, which template is it using? I think the default one doesn’t have many areas, and I’m using HOME: Top Widget/Content->Widget/3 but there are a couple of other choices
FWIW, I did find the upgrade from 2.6.5 and CleanTheme 2.0 to 2.8.x (and now 2.9.3) and Dragonfly to be rather painful and confusing. See some of my complaints (and some solutions) here:
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/357/how-to-upgrade-and-keep-my-sites-look/
Appearance -> Editor
And you can still use the Edit CSS for other things (I do for changes to the styles of my Solioquy slider on the home page, for example)
If it’s of any help, see this thread where I posted by current edits to Dragonfly
I get the 404 message too, but I put the .zip file I downloaded earlier on Dropbox and you can grab my version (0.1.0) if you like until Leo puts up a new one.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12956972/symbiostock-dragonfly.zip
Thanks for the links. It’ll help to know where to start.
I’ll have a look but probably not in the next few days. Assuming I can stop tinkering with the site – it has taken a lot of work to get it back together – I want to upload some more images as I’m less than half way on that.
BTW, there is some part of making things look really polished that will require changing code too – removing formatting stuff from it so it’s only in CSS. For example the two horizontal rules on the image page that I finally found hardcoded in functions.php (having gone crazy thinking there was come border I hadn’t turned off).
@ezeepics wrote:
How can I remove from Home the image of my profile and that menu in the middle of the page? http://www.food.ezeepics.com
I don’t see a menu in the middle of the page – just one above the two sliders. I also don’t see (unless I misunderstand) “the image of my profile” on the home page.
Could this be a cache issue?
I’m pretty close – I think – to having the site looking as I want it to. It isn’t identical to the CleanTheme 2.0/2.6.5 version of the site, but that’s something I can live with.
There are also some truly strange things in some browsers – IE has a green-background button on the Add to Cart even though it shows gray in every other browser, for example. Mobile browsing is not working so well in Dragonfly, but I think that is all sites, not just mine.
I want to tighten up the white space a bit – it’s all too spread out I think – but if anyone has any other comments on how the site looks, I’d welcome them.
🙂
I think this is rather catch-as-catch can, but we have to start somewhere; get it working; then we can improve the rhymes!
There is information on what’s in it here:
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/10/basie/
Has anyone else run it yet – in particular anyone running 2.9.3 and Dragonfly?
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
… Yes, the “password will be sent to you” should be removed.
I noticed that when I tested a new user registration (which worked perfectly BTW) and I like the notion that you have a reminder of your password to save away. Some sites do that, and although there is some security risk, this isn’t a bank account or national security, so I don’t think there’s a problem.
Perhaps change the text to say “A confirmation e-mail will be sent with your user name and password.”?
If Leo doesn’t want to change it, I might do it just on my site – the line is here in register_symbiostock.php
else {echo ‘
*A password will be emailed to you.
‘;} ?>
This is the CSS file you can edit in the Appearance-> Editor (note: not the Edit CSS from Jetpack but the Symbiostock specific one for Dragonfly)
This is what I’ve used for my site so far – might be helpful to anyone else customizing Dragonfly
Moderator Edit
See Jo Ann’s Latest Post on Next Page which updates this one
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=390&start=15#p10507@leo wrote:
Admin -> Bee -> Settings : You now have an option to turn off Symbiostock customizer. Here is Dash-photo: http://www.dashphoto.eu/ — he is still getting converted over, but you can see it looks much nicer when the customizer isn’t over-riding colors and positions, things look good 😀
So I’ve updated and things seem to be OK (after I restored some of my customizations) – where OK means back to where I was yesterday. Search results are displayed as expected (i.e. not the single stack described above).
But I did look at Dash-photo and it’s a mess – after the thumbs up top, there’s a long column of images stacked down the left side and some text that isn’t formatted properly
