...I ended up choosing a company called Backup Machine https://www.backupmachine.com/a/72482iudjs/ (affiliate link, remove everything after .com if you'd rather). They offer three different price points: Free, $4.99 & $9.99 a month. Because of some additional databases and storage I have on my server I needed the additional space so I went for the $9.99 plan....

I just checked my cPanel and I have 4.5GB of storage used right now plus 50 MB in a MySQL database. I have only 260 of my images uploaded so far (I have a family website and my husband's blog elsewhere on my site, but that accounts for only 1.5GB storage).

I have a portfolio of about 2,500 images. By the time I'm done uploading, I think I'll be way over the maximum Backup Machine supports even with the 9.99 plan (10 GB).

As far as I can tell, VaultPress doesn't have a maximum file size.

Whoops, I just realised I hadn't put the closing tag in my code snippet!

It should be:

Code: [Select]

<i class="icon-chevron-down"> </i>
which would explain that effect. Sorry about that!

As you say, it should work, and I have a test installation with the menus built the same way which has all the down-arrows in place. I've been right through the code, which is partly WP core and partly Leo's, and can't see where it goes erratic.

Thanks - that works much better

I noted that if I use the code on all menu items with sub menus, I get double on those that got an automatic one. So I guess I will know when the bug gets fixed when I get double chevrons on the menus that now have one

Using ImageMagick (exec enabled) for me (Bluehost)

How many years in a row will this make it that they introduced something "new" in September and totally effed up the site?

The time to make site changes is in the slow months - Jan/Feb and July/Aug. Even for great development organizations there are bugs to be worked out. And iStock's development organization (which may have nothing to do with the skill of the developers; can't really say from the outside) has to rank among the least competent out there.

The newsletter could have used an editor (for clarity) and a copy editor/spell checker.

Day late, virtually content free and what content there was suggested months of site malfunctions

Woo yay!

if your wordpress install is in /blog then your symbio should be also, otherwise paths may not be accurate

And it is. Leo says he thinks he's found the problem; I assume a fix will be available soon

I thought this sounded great and downloaded and installed the SYSXtra thumbnails widget.

I didn't get the results as you show on your examples - my images were crammed together with no intervening space and they were stacked vertically, not across. I tried this in the under content area (with 6 images) and in each of the three areas across the bottom (3 each). I took the widgets out again as they looked so wrong.

I am using CleanTheme 2.0 as my child theme - is that why your plugin doesn't work for me as it does for you?

I have Symbiostock 2.6.1 and WordPress 3.6

I couldn't see any setting that would let me choose the orientation of my thumbnails. What did I do wrong?

Also, I didn't get the enlarged image preview (loupe) on any of the thumbnails - is there something else I would have to install to get that?

Update: I found the place to enable the image loupe and after I did that, my thumbnails looked normal (space around them) and were arranged horizontally as I expected. Not sure if the vertical orientation was related to not having the image preview enabled, but it's working OK now.

I really like the idea of having some row of topical items on the front page that I can change via a few keywords or categories - I put one there that said "Fall is coming" for example.

I would love to see the ability to say 1 row or 2 rows of thumbnails rather than specifying a certain number. 10 fits across on my computer or laptop, but on an iPad it is more than one row and doesn't fill the final row

Right now, if you click on any of the thumbnails on my front page, you'll get the "Oops" page instead of the image page - until Leo fixes the problem where the wrong base URL is used (picking up the WordPress location versus the Site URL), all the SYXtra links are broken. I'm assuming/hoping that once Leo has the fix for the overall problem, SYXtra will just work.

Thanks for the feedback.

If uploading a larger watermark (I've seen yours as a "bleed" and wondered about that) is OK, then the comments in the template that the dimensions must be exact for that file aren't quite right. It's OK as long as it's square and you take your chances with the design if you make it larger and don't take into account it'll be cut off?

I might just redesign my watermark a bit if it's the correct behavior that the PNG file is never scaled regardless of the size on the image page.

Aaah! That explains a lot

But what, if anything, am I losing by using Home Page Simple?

I've sent Leo some e-mail explaining what's up and asking if he can look at the WordPress site address field when setting up locations of things

Hi Jo Ann

Your site is showing up nicely under www.digitalbristles.com  not sure why you want it to show as www.digitalbristles.com/blog, or am I misunderstanding ?

To set your symbiocard (replace the ladybird logo)
go to
Users
Your Profile
scroll down to Symbiostock Profile and Extended Network Info
immediately underneath this is a box to add the URL to your Personal Photo - add the url then scroll down and click Save

Hopefully this should add the image to your Symbiocard/personal photo and replace the Ladybird logo

Thank you! I now have my logo in place of the ladybird (I had added the URL to the Symbiostock settings, not realizing there was a whole bunch of stuff way down in the user profile that I needed to add).

As far as the the directory issue, when I set up my site (pre-Symbiostock) I was following the advice here about installing WordPress in a subdirectory

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/should-i-install-in-root-directory-or-subdirectory

You just set your site address to the root (WordPress Settings/General) so although all the files live below, people access it as if it were in the root. I don't want the Symbiostock Networking to use the /blog subdirectory but that's what it has picked up from something internal to WordPress and I can't edit that field. I think Leo needs to pick the Site Address not the WordPress Address field when setting the networking info for my site.

After I entered info in the User Profile as you showed me how to, I no longer get the error when updating the network info. It'd be nice if it said "fill out your user profile" versus what it did, but I assume that was the source of the problem...

I don't know if I have a symbiocard - how could I find that out (cascoly said he couldn't find one)?

I have tried to activate the network - and I tried again just now to see if I added some more info in the fields I have no idea about if it would work - but it fails (I think) with this message

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home5/digitdt6/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1039
Network info updated.

Image info info updated.

There are a bunch of fields to fill in and although they supposedly have help, I get an "oops" page if I click on them. The getting started just says slick on activate and have the logos - I've done that but I still (a) don't get my logo on the image pages, just the SS ladybird logo, (b) get the above error each time I try to update the network info (which someone else said I should do to get my logo to work) and (c) you tell me I don't have a network card - which I don't know anything about creating or checking on.

Can you tell I am clueless? I'm trying, but it's not easy.

I had a wordpress installation already, not in the root (digitalbristles.com/blog) and so that's where my symbiostock install went. I seem to remember something I read when I first set wordpress up that said it was bad to put it in the root directory.

The "My site" field in the networking tab of Symbiostock correctly says "http://www.digitalbristles.com/blog"

I posted about the error message yesterday in one of the threads about 2.6.0 bugs but it may not be a bug - I'm probably doing something wrong or missing something. Is there anywhere that tells you what needs to be put into the various fields of the networking tab?

How does one get or make a symbiocard.csv (I see one mentioned in the site search on http://symbiostock.info/about/)

Thanks Cathy. Truthfully, I don't understand the differences between HOME Page CTAs and HOME Page Simple!

When I looked at the example (demo) page for CleanTheme, it said "This is the HOME Page CTAs page template.  This  is the main body copy..."

So I made my home page use the HOME Page CTAs template just like the sample, but when I used the slider at the top - just like the sample - mine was half the width of the page, not like the sample. Even if I changed from 2 columns to 1, the Soliloquy slider stayed in the first column.

What I have now is using the HOME Page Simple template, but I'm concerned that there is something I'll be missing - something that's in the other template but not in this one. As I said, I have no idea what the differences are, but wanted to start with a home page similar to the sample but with my own logo, menu and images.

I do have Jetpack installed (I was using it before) and I didn't want Top Posts, so it's more a frustration that I can't follow the demo site directions for some reason I can't fathom. Possibly the demo site is wrong and it isn't using that template at all