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Plugin/theme - Symbiostock eXtra Features - SYXtra

Started by plrang, July 20, 2013, 18:12

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plrang

Many people use different child themes, like the Clean one and syxtra plugin is working fine there. Of course they may be some isues because syxtra plugins is a THEME also. It's a hybrid.

Currently you shouldn't use it because of your link structure which is not the DEFAULT recommended link structure for Symbiostock.
I'll probably fix that, but not in the next release. And I think it's not a work for Leo, reather the fact it's the LIVE DEVELOPMENT and I just can't think of every possible parameter combination.
SYS 2.6.1 and WordPress 3.6 should be fine also.

Your link structure
http://www.digitalbristles.com/blog/image/

default would be
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/

Same issue as as
http://picturebreeze.com/stock/photos/image/
default would be http://picturebreeze.com/image/

So the generated links are not correct.

Thumbnails orientation depends on the sidebar you use, full width or a column.
There is no setting in widgets to change the layout of thumbnails, you can do it only in Syxtra Settings (square or not) or in the shortcode.

New incoming release 1.9.9 has an option to choose from 3 different styles.
Also it's more mobile friendly, I use iPad and different smartphones to improve that experience - just need some time to adjust.
You can browse my site to see how does it look on mobile devices right now. Still few places to fix.

That rows in the thumbnails layout is something I got in mind since the beginning, yet it can't be easy corrected by using simple CSS rules without sacrificing the SEO or site speed (like hiding some content). It will need some more dynamic code, but I got it on the list.

So my advice for you at the moment is to disable temporarily the plugin, because inactive links gonna hurt your SEO and customer experience.
You can leave it inactive to get update anouncments and I will post here the information if the link issue got fixed.

All the best

Redneck


Jo Ann Snover

#152
I've updated my site to avoid this problem with my WP location. It's still in a subdirectory, but that's now its own subdomain with my site's URL pointing right to it - so no problems with your plugin any more - yea!

plrang

#153
Version 1.9.9 is online
Here are a few words of description
http://stock.imagerion.com/symbiostock-plugin-syxtra-1-9-9/

eZeePics

Wow! This is great! I finally have the large widescreen like I want!  :) Going to discover the rest! Thank you!

cathyslife

Quote from: plrang on September 15, 2013, 13:51
Version 1.9.9 is online
Here are a few words of description http://stock.imagerion.com/symbiostock- ... tra-1-9-9/

Something happened to the link, it doesnt go to the plugin page.  :(
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Jo Ann Snover

You use CleanTheme Cathy - see my problems with 1.9.9 in this post. I've gone back to 1.9.8

http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/88/syxtra-plugin-updated-to-199/


cathyslife

Quote from: jsnover on September 15, 2013, 16:26
You use CleanTheme Cathy - see my problems with 1.9.9 in this post. I've gone back to 1.9.8

http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/88/syxtra-plugin-updated-to-199/

Thanks for the heads up JoAnn.
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plrang

Fixed the link, that was weird ;)

And seems it can work with the Clean Theme sometimes
http://food.ezeepics.com/
All depends on the configuration

eZeePics

And it resolved too the strange blink of images when I had the mouse over in this category http://food.ezeepics.com/image-type/spanish-cuisine/

plrang

That was my fault Corina, just had to adjust the hover image offset (I was probably tired before while making changes)
Though there are few new issues to fight;), and few new ideas to incorporate.

eZeePics

Quote from: plrang on September 15, 2013, 17:01
That was my fault Corina, just had to adjust the hover image offset (I was probably tired before while making changes)
Though there are few new issues to fight;), and few new ideas to incorporate.

I didn't find other errors for moment, I don't get headers color changed, even if I use Clean Theme. If I will discover something I'll let you know.

cathyslife

I went over to your site, plrang, to check it out (at some point I would like zoom hover images on my site) and went to this image page:

http://stock.imagerion.com/image/generalife-in-alhambra/

Something has happened to the images on the right, under Similar Images. I posted a screenshot so you can see what I see. Firefox on Mac.
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plrang

Thanks Cathy, nice squash;) Gonna take a look

eZeePics

How do I make in order to not have the STANDARD LICENCE written under the picture in the image page? http://food.ezeepics.com/image/fuzzy-kiwi-fruit/?r=http://food.ezeepics.com

plrang

You can disable it in settings, but if you'd like to have the Editorial shown at the same time? - it's currently not available to switch though

eZeePics

Quote from: plrang on September 15, 2013, 20:57
You can disable it in settings, but if you'd like to have the Editorial shown at the same time? - it's currently not available to switch though

No, I think you didn't understand me...I don't want to disable the Licence. I don't want to have that write under the image. Is written already under the prices table that the image is available with Standard and Extended licence, don't need it written under the image too....Is a layout issue, but I don't know how to make it.

cathyslife

#167
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plrang

As I said, disable it in syxtra settings page

eZeePics

I think disable is not the same with not seeing the text. I don't want to disable the licence, I sell all images with Standard and Extended. I only don't like to see it written twice.

I did like this, but I'm not speaking about that, if you look with attention at my image page you'll notice that I have the written under the image too. Is what I marked with red in the image below I don't want that:


eZeePics

Disabled it, hope I did not something wrong...

plrang

You just did what I wanted to tell you from the first time, it's only an information, does not have any impact on your licensing, hold on tight :)

stockphoto-images.com

I was offline for a while and maybe didn't get some info about a problem I ran into with the latest version of SYXtra:

On my home page www.stockphoto-images.com I had my six latest uploads right below the big banner. It worked all fine until I upgraded.

Now the six previews are squished together and not spaced out like before. What do I have to change in the code or CSS to either spread them out again or add six more thumbnails to utiliye the entire page width? Caching is turned off.

Thanks.

plrang

Currently just try to set up more than 6 images to get the full width. I'll look if the change I've made was necessary

stockphoto-images.com

Quote from: plrang on September 18, 2013, 15:20
Currently just try to set up more than 6 images to get the full width. I'll look if the change I've made was necessary

Thanks for your response. I don't know what happened but I did realize that I can change the amount of images in the widgets settings (duh).

I changed it from 6 to 12 and then saw that the images showed up again like they did before the update (spread out with frame). That confused me.

I set it back to 6 images and now it looks perfect - like it was before the update. No idea why this morning the 6 images were crammed together without a border...  :o