[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Found the network-manager line and commented it out.

I did a file search in both the professional plugin and the main theme for daily_chron and can only find this in functions.php in the professional plugin:

add_action( ‘symbiostock_daily_chron’ , ‘ss_daily_tweets’ );

no do_action with anything related to daily_chron – might it be called something else?

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Thanks for making that an option for Symbiostock sites Leo.

I’m not inclined to use this at the moment as they’re (up till now) always “just about to launch” but so far nothing’s happened.

It was almost a year ago that they were offering 90 days free and then they were looking for a pretty substantial fee – $480 – and no real marketing plan that I could see.

Searches appear still to be not live – the about page says they’re searching the big agencies and then the smaller ones and photographers can pay a fee to be included. But they’re not searching anything but Corbis by looking at the results.

If you can encourage whoever’s working on PicturEngine to fill us in on what there is that’s more than meets the eye, perhaps it’d look more appealing?

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Here’s my throttling chart – not very many seconds. Times are relative to 3:48pm Pacific time when I ran this

I run a nightly database only backup which is done around 11:45pm each evening (but that’s small)

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

@Snap Vectors wrote:

I had the same question. I saw this comment posted on a different thread, and it made me wonder:

“Btw, I just did the premium upgrade so things look terrible at my site right now, but the design will improve in a couple of days”

Is there anything that could cause the premium installation to alter things?

Thanks,
Nate

I saw that comment and assumed that the poster was saying he’d been working on his site and it looked terrible in mid-edit. The premium plugin doesn’t deal with appearance – batch editor, licensing and twitter integration.

The SYXtra plugin has a ton of features that address appearance – perhaps that’s the plugin the above comment referred to? That’s unrelated to Leo’s Premium Plugin

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Just a note for anyone using the batch editor. I am getting a strange error message if I go to the Settings & Pricing section when the change I made here is in functions.php.

It makes no sense to me, but while I investigate, should you encounter the batch error message “This option not available with this host.”, just go back to the original (unedited) functions.php

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

No theme changes required to update to the premium version, and part of the premium plugin is a batch editor, so (once some issues & bugs have been addressed) you can update all the images with whatever licenses you later decide on

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

You need to have your code within the php tags – after the comment and before the ?>

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

@christine wrote:

This is a link to a Code Editor that Leo created exactly for adding code for more images – I wonder if it could be used for more things?

http://www.symbiostock.com/products-page/product-category/symbiostock-genetic-lab-code-modifier-and-enhancer/

And is there a “code snippet archive” somewhere?

I don’t think changing the number of images per page of results should require code at all – it’s a parameter that right now is a magic number hardcoded in a PHP file and it needs to be pulled from the UI instead (with possibly some simple limits and a default of 24).

Without seeing the code for this plugin I can’t really say, but it sounds as if it’s an editor for functions.php somewhat like Jetpack’s Edit CSS for style.css. There was no mention of the user saying which PHP file the code snippet was to be injected into.

And for many of the items I’ve done kludgey changes for, you couldn’t change those behaviors by stuffing a code snippet elsewhere – it would have to modify the function in the PHP file that currently implements the behavior someone wants to alter.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

@donland wrote:

The Symbiostock child does have a functions.php file already. I pasted the above code into it but nothing changed.

You have to paste the whole function, not a snippet from the middle of one.

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I find this a lot with Shutterstock and other agency images as Christine mentioned – my image thumb is in a similar images display on the page that got indexed.

You can use robots.txt to direct the bots not to look at certain things, but I think you want your thumbnails indexed, and I can’t see a straightforward way to include them in some circumstances, but not in others (where they are in the similar images section of a page)

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

The change I made is to functions.php in the parent theme.

You can make a functions.php in the default child theme and put just that one function into it if you prefer to edit things that way, but be aware that if the parent theme’s version of that function changes in the future, your older (based on the prior version) function will be used. That may or may not be OK depending on what else has changed.

This sort of thing needs to be a parameter pulled from the UI, not code in either the parent or child theme, but I just offered this as a quick fix.

Do keep a copy somewhere other than on the site of what you’ve edited so you can re-apply the changes after an update (assuming the change is still needed)

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Hi again!

I took a quick look at your site and things are looking good – although as you say you need some more of your portfolio up.

Couple of comments. I think it’s worth saying what version of eps you’re offering (8 or 10 or…) as it might matter to some buyers.

This text was on one of the image pages I looked at and it wasn’t clear to me what it meant:

“The swatch is included for easily creating large fills and changing the colors with vector editing software.”

As you’re offering both JPEG and EPS, you need to be extra clear about which radio button to select if you’re going to talk about what’s included. In particular so you don’t get someone unhappy that there was no vector when they bought a small JPEG 🙂

I also think you might want to make your watermark a little larger – it’d be so easy to remove the X and the small SNAP VECTORS. I do think it’s important not to have the watermark be too in-your-face – buyers can’t really see what they’re buying. But if there’s subtle “stuff” over more of the surface it really discourages people from lifting it.

Last thought is whether it makes sense to sell JPEGs of the multi-pattern seamless, like this one

http://snapvectors.com/image/vector-hand-drawn-flower-pattern/

I stock had rules about the EPS had to match the JPEG preview, and perhaps that’s why you did the preview this way, but doesn’t that make more sense for a vector sale than a JPEG?

Anyway, just my 2cents in case it’s helpful

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Right now, you would need to edit functions.php to do this. I think it should be a UI option in the WordPress dashboard, but I did make the edit on my own site to change the default from 24 to 48 – that works for Category browsing or search results from your site (network search results use a different parameter.

It’s better to use a multiple of 6 given how the pages are laid out – at least for clean theme.

Here is the change:

//set the results per page depending on if we are doing image search
function symbiostock_image_results_per_page( $query ) {
$network_search = get_query_var(‘symbiostock_network_search’);

if($network_search != true && !is_admin()){
$marketer_user_key = get_option(‘marketer_user_number’);
$marketer_key = get_query_var( ‘ss-‘ . $marketer_user_key );

// jas – original per_page was 24; multiples of 6 work best
// jas begin
isset($marketer_key ) && !empty($marketer_key) ? $per_page = 100 : $per_page = 48;
// jas end
$query->set(‘posts_per_page’, $per_page);
return;
}
}

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Welcome Diana Jo.

If you have a programming hat, you might put it to good use tweaking little things that you’re not 100% happy with – as this is effectively an open source project, that option is open to all of us

And I’ll +1 the phrasing of firing agencies for low performance!

I fired two earlier this year, one for overreaching and forgetting that we own the content they sell (the Getty Google deal) and the other for lowballing royalties on a new subscription offering without an opt-out (50,000 downloads in 12 months to earn 38 cents a pop…). I think that counts as malfeasance, not low performance 🙂

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

This isn’t a general solution, but it will work with one image per gallery. The rank system (1,2,3) will let you control what’s up front as long as the rest of your work isn’t rank #1.

I just tried this with the Beaches and Family links from my front page to those categories. Making the images showing on the front page show up first in the results was achieved by making them rank #1.

Will that help?

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