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I don’t have a clue what caused the menus to disappear, but I did check your site and it appears that all your categories are intact (if you navigate to
http://bestnaturestock.com/image-categories/
You can see images in individual categories too (I tried a couple of them – you have a lot though!).
I see the PayPal graphic on each image page – do you not see that?
Your whole portfolio says 1017 images – does that sound right?
http://bestnaturestock.com/image/
I was wondering if that was an old total and if so perhaps it would give a clue as to when things went haywire.
So, other than deleting a post from a spammer and banning them via the admin panel, is there anything else I need to do when one of these time-wasters posts here?
I’m quite happy to do that (I’m US Pacific Time zone). I can’t guarantee I’m online all the time, but as long as there are others it should work OK
@leo wrote:
Actually the way that happens is the most popular thread gets the tweet 😀
So then I want the most popular thread to be all the sales we’re all having vs. the technical support stuff 🙂
Perhaps we could have the support area off limits to being tweeted?
I went to Twitter this afternoon and was a bit surprised to see two tweets of posts here – both about problems
Isn’t this going to create an impression that nothing’s working?
@steveh wrote:
While we are on BlueHost – has anyone else noticed that (on WP 3.6.1) you get the following bar on the top of the edit image page:
Connection lost. Saving has been disabled until you’re reconnected. We’re backing up this post in your browser, just in case.I’ve been seeing that quite a lot recently and it doesn’t seem to be an issue with my local internet connection.
Steve
I’ve seen that quite a few times. I hadn’t connected it with WordPress 3.6.1 (I can’t remember if I saw it before I upgraded). I have a fast and generally very reliable internet connection, so I assumed it was some flakiness at Bluehost that was responsible.
To date, I haven’t lost anything, so I guess I am curious as to what’s up, but not overly concerned. Do you think this is a new error message for something that’s always happened but previously wasn’t reported to the user?
I hadn’t come across your test site before but I just ran it on my site (Bluehost shared hosting):
September 17 at 11:28:15 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 7.24 s to load, used 102 requests, and weighed in at 3.8 MB.
grade 66/100
Time Spent per Content Type
Image 53.06%
Script 24.08%
HTML 10.39%
CSS 10.02%
Other 2.45%Time Spent per State
Connect 41.98%
Wait 33.54%
Receive 24.08%
DNS 0.38%
Send 0.02%@chromaco wrote:
I think Shelma1 might be more typical of the types of artists who are holding off from symbiostock. I had a couple of different but similar frustrations…
I think that’s right. I found the initial few days massively frustrating – it was made worse by the fact that my WordPress being installed in a subdirectory meant that every single link in the Symbiostock admin area in WordPress resulted in the “Oops” page. I just thought no one had written anything yet 🙂
I used to write code for a living and have been around computers for decades, so I have a very high tolerance for everything appearing broken. I’m very persistent. I don’t think the majority of contributors would put up with what it takes to get a site running at the moment. Not the money, but the confusion and frustration of getting things working.
Once I’ve got my site finished, I’d be up for taking a stab at adding to some of the existing tutorials to fill in all the things I would have found helpful.
I have many files larger than 10MB uploaded and I haven’t changed anything. 271 of my 600+ images are over 10MB.
I have had a couple of files that just won’t process and I upload a smaller one which does, but I have no idea why those failed.
Why have a limit at all?
When you log in to a WordPress site, you go to http://www.your_bluehost_site.com/wp-admin/ to log in. That’s how you know which account you’re logging in to.
It’s possible your browser has remembered some passwords from some other account, but you can ignore that.
If you go to your bluehost site’s wp-admin, are you saying you can’t log in to that?
I went to check and see how my indexing was going – and to be sure that the sitemap had automatically updated last night (it had).
I see (Crawl/Sitemaps) that most – but not all – of the online images are included in the “submitted” total, and there are two sections, web pages and images. Many more web pages have been indexed than images (where the total is 1)
So I see that I have 607 images in my portfolio (as of very late last night) if I look at my site. If I look at Google’s webmaster tools, it says that 587 web pages and images have been submitted and of those 358 web pages and 1 image have been indexed.
I’m really new to this stuff, but (a) what about the pages on my site that aren’t images – blog, licenses, etc. – which don’t appear to be in that count and (b) is it typical for the images to be so far behind the web pages in indexing?
It’s fine if I just have to wait it out, but I wondered if I’d missed doing something that I should take care of.
I would guess not – I just looked and it’s a $325 application fee (assuming you skip an attorney and do the filing electronically).
How important is that in your opinion?
I’d contribute cash for critical things – most likely something that would help grow sales or make some marvelous features for our sites – but in all honesty this would feel like a frill given the cost.
Also, we have sites world wide and this is a US trademark process. If we really did want to protect the use of the name and logo, wouldn’t it have to be world wide?
I have some large panoramas and composites that haven’t processed. I have ImageMagick, I have had larger MB files – lots that are larger that 10MB – process just fine, but some just wouldn’t.
As I had already created image_name-smaller.jpg versions of these images for the agencies that have small size limits I used those for any that Symbiostock couldn’t process.
It isn’t ideal but it’s a reasonable workaround.
Some sort of error message would have been helpful – what I would get is a blank screen and just the large words “Process Images” at the top if I process just one image that failed.
If I had a set of images with a failure somewhere in the batch, the rest of the batch would remain unprocessed. Now I know to skip the first one in the list and try again. If that works, then try the first one by itself (which fails). Then I delete that and upload my smaller one.
If you click the big number it selects all the search results on the current page (48 max by default, but you can set other numbers), but I don’t think that’s what Cathy was asking about.
If you just want to apply some change to your whole collection, you can’t right now. You can select a category using the drop down list or search with keywords, but that’s not the same
Welcome!
I think you just doubled the total of Symbiostock sites from people who had not previously been contributors to the agencies!
As far as getting your site up and running, I’d suggest that you get the PayPal stuff working so that even as you’re building up your portfolio you have the option to make sales. I’m still working on setting up my site and getting my portfolio online, but last Monday I made a sale, which was a lovely encouragement to keep going 🙂
Once you’re ready for people to take a look you can put your site into your signature line and look for sites to network with.
