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I usually start my caching rebuild around 10pm at night – and it finishes by 6am or so. Do you set it up to get the emails as it caches posts? I normally find that I cache about 100 posts every 10 – 20 minutes or so.
I’m assuming you exclude the customer license and file management pages from caching as per the instructions.
SteveI’m on the most recent release (at least I updated about 7 days ago). I just tried now with a new user ID – selected an image to buy, got the pop up screen asking me to create an account, created a new one with my own password and moved to buy and download the image. Everything worked OK for me on this. I’m on Symbio 3.3.4 and on WP 3.8.3. Nothing special about my site – I have the Pro plugin installed and Supercache activated (although I exclude the customer file area as instructed.
STeve
I just used the update theme link that appeared in my admin page on the Themes area.
Steve
Two sales for me today. One was just for $1, but the other was a medium size for $10. This is the $10 one – it is out on twitter if anyone wants to retweet it!
Steve
I’ve just updated the theme (I didn’t go through the activation then putting child theme back – not sure if I needed to do that).
Anyway, I am getting about 4 second searches of my own site. When I turn on networking, I get a response to new searches within about 8 – 10 seconds.
However, I’ve had the network off for a week or so, and I’m not sure if it need to take some time to rebuild its knowledge of what is out there.
Steve
I’ve also been struggling a bit with searches, and just wanted to mention two things that I found out (from Leo).
The first is that my site can become very sluggish when I have edited and published a bunch of images – for a couple of hours potentially. I now try to add my images in a batch and then rebuild the Supercache (overnight) so that my cache reflects my updated site.
The second thing that confuse your measurements if you have Supercache activated. If you do a search for a word, the system performs a full database search and displays the images that match that word. On my site that takes around 7 seconds. If you then search the same word again, you will actually get a cache of that result and I display that in a couple of seconds. So to really test your searches you need to keep thinking of different search words to really test the site performance.
I’ve temporarily turned off the network search as I thought that was contributing to longer than normal search results.
Steve
There are a whole load of posts on this associated with WordPress, and it all seemed to start with WP3.6. Some of the WP admins claim it isn’t a real issue, others seem to think that something significant in WP changed and it is to do with the number of parallel requests going to the database. I’m investigating with my own hosting company, but just wondered if I was alone.
Steve
I’ve followed all the caching steps above, and have no issues in the normal performance of my site (1-2 second load times). When I am adding new images (editing the draft prior to publication) the site starts to run really slow on both the admin and production side. I get “Lost connection to the site” warnings in the draft images I am editing. My Pingdom site checker sometimes sees the site as down (ie more than 30 second response time).
Is this related to the caching – ie when a new image is published, does the caching software start to create a new cache, and if I add several new images, does that take all available processing power? Should caching be turned off during a big image upload session, and if so, is there an easy “on/off” setting I should use that doesn’t lose my settings?
Steve
Today wasn’t the turn of @steheap?
Sorry – not been checking every day – I’ve been tweeting and retweeting as I see a nice image. Anyway, here is one I tweeted today:
https://twitter.com/steheap/status/445588604224430080
Steve
Woke up to another sale this morning. Full size image at $20.
That’s $40 for March so far and $52 for the year. I need to go back and properly count last year and then update the poll.
Steve
And a new sale from me.
A buyer emailed me to say he had seen this image on the internet but had traced it back to Shutterstock (he gave me the image ID) and should he join there to buy it. I, of course, pointed him to my Symbio site and he quickly went and bought the full size version for $20. So not as good as if he had found the image on Symbio to start, but still a sale for which I got the whole amount.
I checked on Google Images with the phrase “stock photo washington cherry blossoms” and I see this one in position 4 from Shutterstock. Unfortunately a lot of my images on various stock agencies come up before my symbiostock site appears in about row 12 or so. Probably the keywords and descriptions on these early uploads are the same as the words on the main agencies. I try and make them more complex these days, so I live and learn!
Steve
Thanks – I was all excited that this would solve the problem, but I am set to two columns – changing that setting to one moves the keywords and categories away from the right hand side.
I don’t know what I can have done to make it appear like this!
Steve
I do it in a less programatic way. I don’t do a lot of editorial and so for the images where I want to put my “editorial” graphic, I put the following into the description of the image:
I have previously made a small graphic that states that this image is editorial only – that is this bit: src=”http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Editorial_Use.gif”
I link it through to my end user agreement in case anyone clicks on the icon itself.
I can choose to add this or not depending on whether I feel I need to give a warning about usage.
Steve
I’ll try this as well – I’m trying to get my own twitter feeds going, so this will be great practice.
@steheap (backyardstock)
Steve
I’ve just enabled this and think I get the same issues. I have Yoast running and so referenced its sitemap. I get:
» http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/pingSubmit?bloglink=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com could not be pinged. Error message: “parse error. not well formed”
» http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “parse error. not well formed”
» http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – could not open socket”
» http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”
» http://rpc.twingly.com was successfully pinged
» http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=BlogTitle&url=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://geourl.org/ping?p=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”As far as I can see, the ones I really want – google, bing, ask are the ones that are failing.
Steve
