It updates every 24 hours automatically.

Awesome, thanks for the information.

If you go to Royalty Free Images -> Sitemap

There should be a button to "generate sitemap", which you click.

Then you will have a field with the sitemap link that you click, and it auto-selects. Simply paste that into google webmaster tools.

Other than that, is something malfunctioning?

Do we need to "Generate Sitemap" every time after we've added new images or will the sitemap update itself once it has been created?

I'd say this one is really tough since you've used copyrighted material to create a commercial product. I would probably either use it in its original form (marked as editorial) or not use it at all.


But I do have a suggestion that goes with the sale of images in general. It would be nice if the current EULA text together with the complete image description would automatically be included in the purchase receipt and a copy of this receipt would be sent to both parties, buyer and seller. This way the parties could anytime look up under which conditions the image has been sold.

And another suggestion would be to have a "No release, editorial use only!" mark as well, Just like it has been done with the "Exclusive Image" with the latest update.

I'm wondering - if my site (picbreeze.com) isn't listed there, does that mean I'm not on anybody's partner list?

Quote from: steheap on June 25, 2013, 08:02

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Can anybody tell me how the Symbiostock Similar Images widget works?

I've placed it on the bottom of image pages but no similar images are shown (only the headline Similar Images).

I'd forgotten this, but when this feature first came out, you had to run a process each time you added a bunch of images to the site (run the "related images" process?). That went away and found all the images with closely matching keywords.

Has that function now been added in automatically - I couldn't see it in the Symbio options section of Admin?

Steve

I think you need to have the "Related Posts by Taxonomy" plugin activated?

Is that an optional plugin? I can't find it in the available/inactive widgets area.

If you are modifying code in WP core (wp-includes, wp-admin) your changes will be overwritten when you update wordpress.  It would be better to put something in your child theme functions.php file.  This seems like a useful post:  http://designpx.com/tutorials/customize-tag-cloud-widget

The following is from the above site and seems to do exactly what you want.  I have not tested this, but you should be able to paste it into your functions.php file.  The symbiostock child theme comes with a functions.php file that already has the necessary "<?php" line at the top.  You should be able to just paste the code below in the middle of the file and change the values to what you want.

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function custom_tag_cloud_widget($args) {
$args['largest'] = 18; //largest tag
$args['smallest'] = 10; //smallest tag
$args['unit'] = 'px'; //tag font unit
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'widget_tag_cloud_args', 'custom_tag_cloud_widget' );

I put it in my functions.php code (Appearance->Editor, select Theme Functions (functions.php)) and it changed things appropriately.

Hope this helps!

Excellent! Thanks. I'm very new to WP but learning every day.

This normally shows up on the single image page to display similar images to the one that has been selected. It works by a complex analysis and comparison of keywords - hence it needs one to start with

Steve

O.K., that's what I thought. But is there anything else to set up to make it work? Because it doesn't work on my site.

Like I said, I have it placed on the single detail image page. The image is there but no similar images are shown.

I guess I'm ready for networking.

Picture Breeze - http://picbreeze.com
(the domain picturebreeze.com is still hosted at a different provider and .htaccess redirected to picbreeze.com right now, but it will be moved soon).

What I'm looking for ...

I have to admit I'm not a fan of microstock (I'm a traditional stock contributor) but I think the concept of Symbiostock is brilliant nonetheless. So what I'm mostly looking for are the members offering unique and high quality photography who try to keep a certain price level.

What you can expect from me is mostly Texas/America related images, people, lifestyle, country and western and landscape. So far I've uploaded a little more than 200 of my early images in 2 days, about 1000 more current ones will follow within the next few days.

To keep this up to date, maybe it will help somebody else.

One problem has been solved.

The Tag Cloud Widget can be customized within /wp-includes/category-template.php

function wp_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) {
$defaults = array(
'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,

This is where you can customize minimum and maximum font size and the amount of data (tags) pulled.

Thank you but I know what they do. I want to know how to customize them in size and appearance.

I just did the Paypal Sandbox testing but I think jshooz got one thing wrong with his directions.

If you've never done the Paypal sandbox testing before, you will not see a sandbox BUSINESS account because there is none.
You need to create both, a sandbox business account (as merchant, with your Symbiostock admin email) AND a sandbox personal account (as customer, with a user login email).

Testing went ok.

... only those with matching promoted keywords) are checked.

Just to be clear, "promoted keywords" are just keywords or do we have to particularly point out a "main keyword" or so?