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My site is up now and they say they don’t anticipate any further downtime…
@joannsnover We apologize for the frustration. Admins sometimes have to take immediate action with some issues, to ensure server integrity.
@joannsnover We dont anticipate any issues, but if there are we will do what we can to resolve the problem asap.
Mine is essentially royalty free although I describe it rather than using that term. I offer an Extended License (although I haven’t got it posted on all images yet as the License stuff is seriously deficient IMO) to lift some of those limits
Multiple uses, print run limits (100K), no items for sale or templates on the standard license. Extended license lifts those.
Unless I had some truly unusual images, I think having terms that are too restrictive means either that people will just violate the terms or that they’ll shop elsewhere – there’s a ton of places to choose from.
Right now I’m not marking anything as exclusive as I will probably upload everything in time elsewhere. New stuff goes to my site first and later to others (at least that’s my current thinking)
Thanks for posting a follow up. I’m not sure I want to upgrade from Premier to Business just to get that to work…
Sorry if this seems to be pestering, but you haven’t said what page template you’re using and which sidebars or content areas you’re trying to use.
You’ll need to be specific about exactly what you’re trying. Can you get text to show up on the front page if you enter some?
I’m using CleanTheme, so my display won’t be quite the same as yours, but look at a portion of my widgets page and see the areas on the right with the various widgets in them. Do you have something that looks like this?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12956972/Screen%20Shot%202013-09-20%20at%205.21.21%20PM.png
And if you do, which widgets are you putting in which areas
Basic answer is yes, for content-customer.php, content-image.php, content-noresults.php and page-customer.php, all of which I’ve posted about mods for.
For cart.php and interpreter.php, they need to be edited in the symbiostock parent directories (under inc/classes then /cart and /network-manager respectively).
And yes, it will show N/A for model or property releases for images left with the defaults. You can modify the code to be blank if you want, but I think it’s worth showing explicitly where there’s no need for a release, which is what I think N/A means.
So what I’ve found out so far – and my experiment on my site seems to bear this out – is that you can replace PHP files from the parent theme within the child theme providing
– the PHP file is in the WordPress template hierarchy. There’s a graphic there that shows it. Essentially there’s a list of places and an order in which WordPress will look to find the files needed. If you want to modify a PHP file that doesn’t fall into one of those, you’ll have to modify in the parent theme
-With the exception of functions.php, you have to copy the entire PHP file to the child theme. You cannot just place the items you want to override in the child PHP file. functions.php you can just write the overrides and no includes are needed (as they would be with the styles.css file. Search for functions.php in this file to read more
So the comments marking edits are very important because you’ll have to put your PHP edits into updated parent files on each new version…
I’m going to read about action hooks and action filters, which sound like a way out of this. You plunk placeholders in at useful places in the parent theme so that child themes can just write functions to do something at that location and thus allow overrides without copying the parent PHP in its entirety.
I was just checking my site to see how Google was doing with the image indexing and was intrigued/bothered to see that where the watermarked previews were expanded (where you see the Visit Page / Visit Image buttons) some of them say “by Ann Snover” – the others have no credit at all.
I have nothing anywhere that shows my name like that – my first name is Jo Ann, with a space and perhaps there’s some brain dead parsing software that is taking the last two words of a name to display.
I have no clue how I would do anything about this – two out of three words is better than you being Leo, but still! The only other good news is that a search for Ann Snover brings up a lot of my pictures and pages, so perhaps people will find their way to me…
That’s the lovely thing about code – it does what you said, not what you meant 🙂
Glad it’s sorted
I just did another test purchase with the sandbox as i couldn’t remember if the auto return worked (and I have set up the IPN in my PayPal account – that’s available for Premier as well as Business, just not for personal accounts).
Although the sandbox says the notifications are working, I had to click “return to store” to get back to my cart page.
If someone figures this out, that would be great, but my one real buyer appeared to manage OK, so I’m rating this as a low priority problem for now
Here’s the PayPal “how to” on setting up IPN:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/
See this MSG thread for a basic start that was provided by an agency (same thread Christine posted in)
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-general/eula-legal-paypal-etc/msg305806/#msg305806
I took that and made modifications to get something I was happy with – the goal isn’t to file lawsuits so I wanted to get the legalese out of the text. I wanted it to be clear to the buyer what they purchased and what was OK/not OK.
You’re welcome to look those over and see if you can lift something from mine (but you’ll need to make your own Editorial Use Only graphic as mine has part of my logo in it).
http://www.digitalbristles.com/end-user-license-agreement/
http://www.digitalbristles.com/extended-license-agreement/I like the idea of the vertical bar. As far as above vs. below, I’d suggest (from a purely visual point of view) that it’d be better and less distracting somewhere below the image.
I’m not sure how yours could appear above if you followed the on the line (which is really long ) which begins with the item-preview content-box as that’s the code that displays the image. I just snipped out the guts of the line to make it a bit more readable in the forum editor
I am running CleanTheme and I’ll try making the changes there and see if they work (although that still means you need to save any modified files for when a CleanTheme update happens – if changes are in the files the child theme provides, although this one isn’t in CleanTheme 2.0). I may have to read up a bit on child themes to see how much stuff you need to have in the child for the functions to work.
I wondered about grandchild themes – I am assuming that’s not possible, but it’d be nice if it did work 🙂
I’ll post here with what I find out.
The formatting doesn’t look great in the forum editor, but I think you can cut and paste this. I’ve included the line above and below my edits so you can locate the spot in the file to add the change.
As far as getting these changes available to everyone, I guess it depends on (a) Leo and (b) if other people find them useful.
For a sort-of source code control I am keeping copies of the files I edit and putting a comment in each at the top with a date and what I edited, plus each edit has the jas begin and jas end comments to help me locate things that need to be lifted into new versions.
This isn’t ideal by any means, but there’s a lot of potential for cleanup and organization at some point in the future to try and make this more readily customized, easier to maintain, etc. etc.
big snip here – this is just to locate
< ?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. < ?php echo $postid;?> Model Released: < ?php echo $model_released; ?> Property Released: < ?php echo $property_released; ?>
< ?php do_action( 'ss_after_img_page_preview' ); ?>
I have added the image number to the download button by adding this string to the type and size info in content_customer.php line 72
. $product_info
I’ll look around and see how I can make the minipic link to the original image page, but not tonight 🙂
Can you provide some details on your installation:
WordPress version, Symbiostock version, theme – CleanTheme, or your own edits in the provided Child theme – which page template you’re using and so on.
I see a slider on the home page – is that what you don’t see? Can you say which widgets you’re trying – Latest Images, for example, or Latest Images slider?
If you use the Text widget and put some phrase in there, can you get that to show up? I notice you don’t have any images in the Featured Images category, so that won’t show any results.
Also, you want to look at your default prices before you upload more, you have $1.00 and then 0.02, 0.04, 0.08 and 0.10. I don’t think you meant those to get cheaper as they get larger 🙂
You can see it indirectly by looking at the minipic (thumbnail) or watermarked preview JPEG’s file name in the browser, but that’s not all that friendly.
I just made a small change to content-image.php to display it on the image page:
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/snorkeling-beyond-smith-cove/
The formatting might want to be a bit different, but it’s not a big change to make – just adding
…long line of code…< ?php echo "Image No. $postid"; ?>
< ?php do_action( 'ss_after_img_page_preview' ); ?>
