I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread about this.

I'll start with the first one.

Maybe I'm not seeing the obvious but I can't find how to share a single image post on Twitter (not the daily automatic routine). I thought it should be an option when I "Edit" an image but I can't find it. And yes, I looked at "Screen Options" too.

Would anybody like to discuss the pricing of image licenses?

I have seen many very good Symbiostock sites and yet I hesitate to add them to my network because I think they don't value their work enough. Why do most of you price a full size image at 300 dpi, which will obviously qualify for most print campaigns at $20 or less?
Whoever wants to do any prints will probably pay more for the printer (ink, labor, offset etc) than you charge for the most important part of the campaign. Why do you sell yourself that cheap?
I do understand the need for cheap blog sized images. Most bloggers are privateers and don't have the budget to pay double digit amounts for pictures.
But full sized print quality images?
They don't need to be priced at lowest microstock level, IMO. Print campaigns have a budget. Why make one of the most efficient parts of the campaign the cheapest one? There's no practical reason for it, IMO.

Let me hear what you guys think.

Just thinking out loud ...
How about some kind of mentoring? I mean we have people here that know the Wordpress and Symbiostock theme pretty well - and we have NEW Symbiostockers that would appreciate any help they can get because they might be overwhelmed.
Sometimes a single mentor (possibly even with access to the Wordpress site in question) can explain and adjust things much quicker than posting/reading a lot of different opinions in the forum.

Wouldn't it be helpful if newbies could sign up at "looking for a mentor" while at the same time experienced users would like to be "available for help"?

We all have taken other people's work for granted ... why not give something back?

My suggestion would be that "mentors" simply drop a note here to be available while "newbies" can publish a need for mentoring.

Here's one issue I've noticed some time ago but it wasn't on top of my priorities.

When an unregistered visitor adds an image to the shopping cart and gets the message to log in or register for purchasing the image - the shopping cart will not save that image with the registration.

Let's say somebody surfs the website, likes an image and wants to purchase it. He puts it into the cart and then needs to register an account. After registration the image he wanted is not in the cart which means he needs to start over searching for it. He'll probably be annoyed and maybe angry to lose the results of his research.

Or am I the only one noticing this?

I've used the Bing SEO checker and it gives me a "High Severity Issue" message of redundant <h1> tags on my homepage.
Obviously Bing would like to see only one <h1> headline to clearly identify the main content of the page.

Locating the <h1> tags is not hard, one is in the "Featured Images" widget, another one in the "Menu" for instance.
But my question is where does the page pull the information to place the Featured Images caption into an <h1> tag from so I can change it into an <h2 or h3> there?

With all the great new plugins/theme upgrades popping up, I'm wondering if the issue of being able to publish the release status on the image page has been addressed yet.
Or maybe there is an easy fix or workaround for it that I'm not aware of?

I think it's important to show the potential customer if there are model/property releases available or not.

Also, another nice feature would be to add coupon codes to the shopping experience.

The image archive every SYS user finds at http://yourSYSdomain.com/image/ shows a headline "Royalty Free Images on ...".

Any idea where the "Royalty Free Images on" part is coming from (where to change it)? Not all images are RF.

I did a compound keyword search on my own site and noticed that my network partner symbiostock.info listed more of my images than my own site.

So my question is, does Symbiostock.info have a better search engine than individual SY sites?
Obviously compound search terms deliver poorer results on my SY site than they do via the networking hub. Any explanation for that?

1. Symbiostock -> Author Options -> Model Released? / Property Released?

Whatever changes I make there, new processed images will by default always show YES on both options, model and property release.
Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong. Or do I not understand what the MR/PR setting in the Author Options is supposed to do?

2. Theoretical question: Will ALL Author Options be applied to ALL images if I'd check "Update all existing images with new values?"
That would make this option pretty useless, if you would want to change only one or a few settings, wouldn't it?
For example, if you would want to change the pricing for all images you would automatically also change the PR/MR status, right?

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

I have trouble finding where to customize the settings (size, amount of data, font attributes etc.) of ...

- Featured Images Slider (Large) widget (size and speed)
- Tag Cloud Image Categories widget (font attributes)
- Tag Cloud Most Used Keywords widget (limiting the amount of keywords)

Support is much appreciated.

O.K., I have set up WP and installed the Symbiostock theme. Looks like it's all working so far.

But since I've never worked with WP before, I sometimes feel completely lost. I hope somebody will be able to leave some pointers to my questions.

1. How do i change the text on the image page "Stock image by [MY EMAIL ADDRESS]" from my login email to my actual name? I've tried all different user/profile settings already but WP won't let me change the user name field.

2. How to substitute the standard Symbiostock user avatar on the image page to an author image?

More questions coming soon.

Well, all of my people images have been rejected at Dreamstime and Dreamstime only.
Reason:
"The model release document must be printed on paper, filled in and signed with a pen. We don't accept digitally signed model releases as they are not considered good legal documents."

I'm using the iPhone app EasyRelease for handling my releases and it has been accepted by all ms agencies so far, except Dreamstime. What a bummer. Reason enough for me to not submit anything to Dreamstime.


Thought I'd share.

I have a question that's bugging me.
Let's say I do a TFP/TFCD shoot with a model. So I'll give her the image files and she'll proudly show them on her Facebook page.
I however submit them, let's say, to Getty with exclusivity.
Does the model (or I) have to fear any legal issues?
How do you guys handle that?