I don't want to spend time promoting my website (which will be the majority of work in order to get sales) and in the end the customer chooses to purchase from somebody else.  At the moment I live comfortably of stock. The 100% commission I would make of an independent website would certainly be nice but I will have to invest a lot of time in order to make the same amount of money I currently make with stock agencies who have million of visitors.

I have spent hours finding and  contacting potential buyers in order to advertise my site and the Symbiostock network,  I am hoping that other people are doing the same rather than just sitting back and waiting to be found ?

I like Phil and Ann's licence  on Priceless Pictures , nice and simple and short to read

Interesting, I tried changing the timing and it has no effect. However, for some strange reason If I log out then it works perfectly!
Computers just puzzle me more

I am so pleased you mentioned this - I have been trying to get two things to update today, unsuccessfully so logged out and in again and there they are

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It is also something that should be turned off straight out of the box.  I am guessing but I think most people would prefer not to have their sales tracked by the network.

By the network, certainly I wouldn't want that. But the OP said "in the database", so I'm assuming they mean within their own site dashboard. That would be helpful, to have something in the dashboard that tracks sales.

+1. Not network tracked, but certainly viewable and sortable etc in the admin section.

I'm hoping a fully fledged data & sales tracking/recording/management system is something that Leo is going to include in his Premium version coming soon.

+2  I would prefer to record them within my own site but not share with network

Can anyone help me with adding space between widgets please.  On my front page I have added a slider widget above my latest images and it sort of sits on the top of the header, does anyone have a simple way of adding more space ?

I do not have a clue who jpsdk is but admits they are a sad individual by their own admission

It is so easy to attack and belittle a concept, especially something that is so new.  It is much harder to actually put some effort in and make it work as many of us are doing.


Edit.  corrected spelling error

Hi Russell, I "think" it is only you that gets the @justhost***  mail and the customer gets one from the proper address - try registering on your site with a second email address and see what happens.

This strange address can be got around but I got in a bit of a muddle when I was trying to sort it out a few years ago and never bothered again

I've been distracted from stock (mostly) for the last few months, but spent a part of Friday trying to catch up with Symbiostock to figure out what it would take to get a site up and running for my portfolio of ~2,000 images (and possibly some vectors).

I already have a web site hosted by Bluehost
I already have WordPress installed
I already have a personal PayPal account.    Personal works, Premier is probably better as you get an auto-return to site option, you do not need merchant as far as I can see, I think you need different bank account and email address for each PP account
I already have a watermark and logo   Watermark - is it PNG and the correct size (I would need to look that up).  Logo - need site logo for header, avatar, image for symbiocard - can be the same or a picture of you, and if you wish a logo to go on the Paypal page.  Amanda created a set of templates and there is a link at the top of the Settings page within the Symbiostock Bee area.






I read a bit on BlueHost's site trying to see if I'd have to upgrade my plan if I were to host a stock web site (assuming at first there wouldn't be much traffic)  I will worry about that when the time comes - my host says unlimited if part of the site, not just storage so will wait and see

I looked at existing Symbiostock sites and their various licenses - not sure if I have to come up with my own license or just may if I want to. Some licenses referred to extended licenses but I don't see how that can be purchased.  There are two licences you can base yours on - Jamie provided one and I did the other, no idea if legal .  I have written a note for customers to contact me if they want anything other than basic licence

I see all the sites have Blogee (? where did that odd name come from) Sm, Med, Large sizes - do I have any choices in names/sizes  I think I read that this will come with the premium theme that Leo is developing, sounds like it will have a lot more options

And the real biggie is how much time to upload, watermark, import to WordPress and whatever else is needed 2,000 full size images  It depends on how much work you want to do -  SEO IS important and that takes a while.  I unload a few, process them - generally related and tend to bulk categorise, then open each one in new tab for final editing, SEO tweaking etc which takes about 30-45 seconds for each one now when I have a good connection, as I am producing all new images do do not have to change titles etc.

After all that I still don't have any clear answers. I have much more information, but I don't know if I have to commit a week to get this running or a day or two, or...
there is enough information now to get it running in about an hour I would think if you have all your logos, EULA etc ready.  I would also spend some time working on your categories before you start uploading as it is faster to categorise once than go back and add images to a category later.  Add a Child theme before you make any changes so that any changes you might make are not lost if if there are updated versions or you upgrade

I need to know what I'm getting into before I start and I haven't been able to gather that level of detail. Other people doing it or saying "it wasn't that hard" doesn't really help me figure that out.    It is impossible to tell how long it will take you, everyone is different and we are all on a learning curve 

I don't want to start my own (mainly due to laziness), still waiting for an open symbio site for contributors in general

Not sure how that would happen - unless (brainwave)  I set up a subdomain for you and take 75% of all your earnings 

I prefer Leo's early suggestion of $$  although in my case it should be ��

The path for version 2.5.6 is a little different if you are using that, but following Cathy's directions will show you where it is

I am a bit confused, are you trying to get your pictures onto the site for licencing or to use in the next gen gallery? I do not use the latter so cannot advise on that

Yes, I made a .png and added it to the descriptions

If some are still in processing are you may be uploading in non sRGB
I would still check you php.ini and see if it needs increasing