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You can have menu items under a header – just one level deep though. So you can go to edit the menu in WordPress (Appearance->Menus) and add categories or a page (that’s how my categories gallery is handled) or a URL to a menu. You get to pick the text for the menu so it can be a duplicate – Cars under Photographs and Cars under Illustrations.
You can make a new menu – again in the WP admin interface – and then assign it wherever you want. I’m not sure where you want to put it, but you can see an example in my test site:
click on Blog menu on the home page and you’ll go to a page with the custom menu widget placed in the sidebar on the right with some images as menu items.
Is that what you wanted to do?
Correct – Google will pick it up. You can check the last time it did that with webmaster tools but you’ll see the last updated date there update daily unless your site is down
What PHP version is your server running? Again a long shot but we’ve had issues in the past related to that.
I’m taking a guess here, but try disabling the Symbiostock cart manager plugin and see if the problem goes away.
My reason may seem a bit weird, but…
If you add /image/ to any site name you should see a list of all the images on that side, paginated to 24 per page (default); 48 per page in my case
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/
When I add that to your site I get nothing even though you have 71 images uploaded (I can see that by checking your information on the author page). One of the prior bugs noted with the cart manager was that all the images are appearing on one page which can lead to out of resources errors on the server. You really won’t lose much by leaving the cart manager disabled if that does solve the problem.
If not, I’ve no clue 🙂
HOORAY!
So glad you’re on your way…
you have to click to get the USD pricing (top right of the box where image sizes/prices are shown). It’s from $6 to $31 for a main collection S to XXL
You can buy images for cash at Photo Dune (add $2 to the price shown) and at CanStock – no need to buy a credit bundle. I can buy a small image for cash from iStock for $6 and CanStock for $2.50
I have priced a few images for licensing at FAA (just to try it out) but I set the prices so that the buyer price was roughly equivalent to my Symbiostock site price.
Obviously we can each make decisions about what we think the market will bear for our work, but I honestly can’t see people paying $18 for a blog sized image unless there’s no other source and they really, really want that particular shot.
I didn’t make links to b-l-u-e-h-o-s-t in my previous post, so I’m guessing the forum is doing that automatically? Not sure I like that as it implies I’m praising them for the referral links, but as I mentioned, I was already their customer long before Symbiostock…
I’m sorry you had such difficulties, but I think you’ll find things a lot simpler now. I had signed up with Bluehost before starting my Symbiostock site because another product I was trying to use – and which wasn’t working – required a professional hosting setup that my prior service didn’thave.
And I will say that Bluehost support has been very helpful the few times I’ve had to use them.
To get ImageMagick set up to process your images, go to the PhP configuration in cPanel and there’s a check box to enable it.
Are you sure you can’t change permissions using cPanel? With BlueHost, I can, via the File Manager.
For what it’s worth, 755 is more than I have on my watermark (i.e. it’s different, but it’s more permissive than mine with is 644) and mine’s working fine. It’s possible there is some other file that’s a problem.
Did you turn on WordPress debug options to see if that gives you any clues as to what’s going wrong? Sorry if you’ve already tried that.
You might find it helpful to look over some general WordPress tutorials on how menus are set up (which isn’t Symbiostock specific, although Symbiostock has some custom items you won’t see in other themes, like Image Categories), such as
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-menus/
A while back, Michele found a site called WP beginner that has tutorials plus a mailing list that sends you daily (short) tips on all sorts of customization stuff. You might want to explore there as well
http://www.wpbeginner.com/guides/
Bear in mind that we have one level menus – no sub menus (and when Amanda’s tutorials were written we had multi-level menus, so ignore that). Also bear in mind that you don’t want too many menu items because WordPress has a limit – runs out of memory if you have a ton (where I think a ton is more than 30 or 40) and don’t increase the amount of memory on the server:
It happens periodically if BlueHost or my internet connection hiccup. Has nothing to do with Symbiostock per se. WP also puts up a message about saving in the browser to try and avoid any data loss when the client can’t get to the remote host.
Did you check speedtest.net to see if your connection’s OK or contact your hosting company to see if they know they’re having problems?
@thp wrote:
Leo has done an amazing job of building Symbiostock as a lean, fast theme already, so please don’t take this as anything other than a
EDIT: Also, has anyone that is using Bluehost hosting turned on the CloudFlare option? Is it working well? Cheers.
I hadn’t looked into this – I’m on Bluehost – so I just went to look at CloudFlare’s intro video and then took a look at their plans:
http://www.cloudflare.com/plans
I can’t imagine forking over $20 a month at the moment, but free sounds OK. I guess the question would then be – what is the downside? Or even the potential downside?
I googled cloudflare problems to see what would come up:
http://wpguidance.com/549/typical-cloudflare-hosting-problems/
http://www.organicweb.com.au/17147/wordpress/cloudflare-google-pagespeed/
http://www.x-pose.org/2012/02/speed-up-your-site-disable-cloudflare/
I’m not sure I have the expertise to evaluate these complaints (some of which are a few years back, admittedly), and also don’t like the idea of a component that could decrease reliability even if it sped things up when it was functioning.
Thanks for bringing the topic up, but I’m going to be chicken and see if someone else wants to go first 🙂
@leo – now you’ve piqued my curiosity!
Welcome Wendy. I hope your hosting folks can sort out the problem for you. I know that it can seem overwhelming when getting started, but it does get better – honest 🙂
Aah, I just assumed you knew about getting files up to the server. Sorry 🙂
FTP is really essential for getting all sorts of things up to your site – primarily your portfolio! I use Fetch (Mac) but lots of people use FileZilla. Depending on your host you may be able to use cPanel tools to move files up to the server, but I find FTP so much easier.
You’ll need to learn the layout of the directories, and also to be sure to keep a local backup of everything you upload. In some directories – such as in the theme’s directories – when you update the theme, any other files in the directory are deleted – so you don’t want to put your own files there 🙂
When you upload to WP’s media library, the files are placed in a subdirectory of wp-content/uploads/ so I made a directory there, wp-content/uploads/branding/ where I put my headers and other site logo files.
To make sure I get the right URL to put into the WP admin fields, I can copy the URL (using Fetch; I’m sure filezilla has something similar) so that I can put
http://digitalbristles.com/wp-content/uploads/branding/Main-Logo-535x120.pnginto the field for my Header Logo in Symbiostock/Settings
