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I have occasionally received invitations from people I don’t know but who are obviously trying to build their business – Drobo (RAID product I own) and a piece of software I bought.
I don’t feel bad about declining these 🙂
@cascoly wrote:
The special reports at http://symbiostock-search.com are designed primarily to help Symbiostock members. If active Symbiostock members donate there, we can keep the site free, and continue to list all sites. The alternative would be to require an annual fee to appear on this site.
Is there somewhere that describes what we might want to do with the choices there? I have looked at that page, but wasn’t really sure why I’d use it (and it didn’t look like a customer-focused tool that we’d want to link to)
I don’t mind donating to support tools that I can use, but I just don’t get this one. As I’m a newbie, if there’s something I missed in prior discussions, just point me in the right direction
One more problem with licenses: You can’t apply them by default to new uploads. Why add the extra step if you want to default to having a particular set?
There are check boxes in Symbiostock’s Author Options tab for the available licenses. I thought I could check the two licenses I have created and say Save as Defaults and then newly uploaded/processed images would have those licenses set.
Doesn’t work.
In the draft image editing it says to please use the batch editor – which is fine when I want to change something, but if I want all new uploads to have both Standard and Extended license, it makes sense to have licenses as a default settting to apply to everything new.
I’d prefer that licenses work as defaults and from editing a draft, but at a minimum the license options should be removed from Author Options when setting defaults if they aren’t ever going to work that way.
Leo was insane enough to make me a moderator, so I agree with my suggestion 🙂 Just wanted to be sure you were OK with it
Can we change the title to include RESOLVED: at the beginning?
The image number Symbiostock provided. That’s what shows up in the cart before purchase
Done
Check it on my site:
http://www.digitalbristles.com/?s=supercalifragilistic&post_type=image
The file to edit in addition is interpreter.php which is in the network manager folder
The issue is that there are text strings scattered through the code which isn’t ideal for all sorts of reasons. I’m not PHP literate (in another life I wrote code but in C/C++) but is there some way that projects typically extract all user-visible strings and put them together?
Is there some reason there couldn’t be one file with variables for all the user-visible strings? It would make localization as well as user edits a ton easier…
So I went back to trying to work on licenses this morning and I think I have things working. For example:
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/north-head-lighthouse-washington/
There are some real flaws in the interface for creating but the showstopper – in my opinion – is that you can’t safely use the batch editor to apply licenses to existing images whose settings vary. Even if all you want to do is check the two boxes for Standard & Extended Licenses, other settings are changed.
In my case, I have noted model and property released images as I have been uploading. I know they aren’t currently made visible, but I want to make them and don’t want to have to go back and enter this information later.
However, if I apply licenses to those images it wipes out my Model and Property release settings (I checked a test image before and after applying the license).
So bottom line is that I can’t use the License feature as it is. I am not going to wipe out all the work I’ve done (on 700 images, although I don’t know the count that are model or property released).
There are other problems that have been noted before but I’ll summarize
– You can’t edit a license
– If you don’t enter 0.00 for the price AND select Yes for the “Purchasable upgrade?” radio button you’ll get a link under your Download button saying “Sandard License”
– You can’t reorder licenses – they appear to the buyer in the order you created them, which may make no sense
– If you enter 30 for an amount, instead of meaning 30 dollars (or whatever your unit) it means 30 cents. No system anywhere works like this unless you enter 250 to mean 2.50 (which you don’t)
– The default for “Purchasable upgrade?” is “No” and it goes back to that every time rather than remembering the last choice you made.And in the above list, don’t enter “0” for the standard license – it has to be 0.00 or it won’t work.
Why do we even have the radio button for purchasable upgrade? Why not have the default for all the fields be 0.00 and if there’s an amount the user can enter it. If the license has the default 0 prices, then it’s not purchasable; if there’s a price, then it’s purchasable.
I did try it on your site – but I see the standard text and a list of image categories.
Should I have seen something different?
Ah. I’m on Bluehost and running 5.3.27
I noticed that the first line in that php file is
ini_set( “memory_limit”, “1024M” );
and that the image size the buyer needs is created on the fly. Does this mean that there are cases where things can go haywire if there isn’t enough memory on the server to create the image? Just curious as to what sorts of things one might check if/when this doesn’t work
One last question – do we say that PHP 5.4 isn’t supported at this point?
Leo encouraged me to upgrade from 5.2 because there were some features in 5.3 he said he wanted to rely on. I had a choice of 5.4 or 5.3 and picked 5.3 because that’s the version Leo planned to rely on – but he didn’t say not to use 5.4 at that time (couple of weeks ago)
I have the same versions of everything as you and I have some files that were test-purchased earlier and I can download those without a problem, so it’s not a universal problem. However, I’m not a WordPress expert either, so I don’t know how to debug this.
Does your download button look something like these?
Sorry that I can’t answer your question, but it would be great to have a list of where to find most/all of the customer visible text and some recommendations on the right way to make our edits.
So I’d like it if I could make a “grandchild” theme – child of a child – for any site specific edits, so that I could take updates without having to reapply any edits. I don’t know enough about WordPress to know if this is possible. I use Edit CSS (Jetpack) to make changes to the style sheet but I assume the text is in a PHP file somewhere.
I’m in a similar situation – I’m in the middle of uploading my portfolio of images (I have 700 online and another 1800 or so to go).
I don’t know much about SEO, but I am using the Yoast WordPress plugin and making sure that I have a yellow light from Yoast as I publish each image.
I don’t think that it makes sense to write a ton of material for each desctiption – one of Yoast’s complaints about image pages is that there isn’t enough text, but there’s enough to tell a buyer what they need to know. IMO there’s no sense in irritating a buyer once they get to your site by having a pile of padded text in the description.
In many cases, if I had a series of images, I had given them all the same title and different descriptions when I originally set the up (for example a series of spring woodland wildflowers isolated were all titled Woodland Spring). As I’m uploading, I’m pulling a short phrase from the description of each and making that the title because Yoast doesn’t like too many images with the same title.
I’m trying to think what a buyer is most likely to search for when picking the Focus Keyword (and that set of words needs to be in the title, description and URL, in the order given; the words don’t have to be at the beginning of the description though).
Other things to think about: plan what categories and subcategories you will have before you start uploading so you can get things organized the way you want as you upload.
Did you get your watermark done and try it out on a few images to see if it looks right? I made mine 590 x 590 (the largest it can be) with a 393 x 393 “safe area” in the center so that no matter the shape of the watermarked image, the important parts of my watermark (the logo) are not cut off.
For my standard images, the 590 pixels on the long edge means 393 on the short edge; a few panoramas or other “odd” shaped files are different. I think it’s worth spending a bit of time to get something that looks reasonable as every customer is going to be staring at that watermark, either in Google search or on your site.
Good luck
I did a quick search and it appears this is a known issue. I have no idea if this is the whole story, but check out these articles
http://sevenspark.com/wordpress/menu-item-limit
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-menu-has-a-limit-of-49-links-of-pages-in-the-navbar
