Thans for good news, Paypal refund processed.
I did it again, and the screen shows still number 164 (not 482), and I get the same problem.
It looks like it's something related to my computer session. I am going to reboot the computer now.

3rd transaction completed and paid to Paypal.

When  I click on my email confirmation, the Customer License and Management screen displays the thumbnail of the new purchase, but the number 164 assigned originally to the first transaction from 2 days ago.
Clicking on the "Get your images here"  link, generates the same error message as before.

I'm using wordpress 3.5 and Symbio 2.5.6 with CleanTheme 2.0

I haven't downloaded any of them yet. Which one should be used?
 

There are email registrations and there are spam comments.
So far, I received only some registrations and fortunately no comments.
I think, my wordpress installation has some automatic captcha that accepts the user registrations but doesn't allow to continue with comments.
If anybody feels like testing it, go ahead and try to enter a comment on my site. I'll report back.

Where are the registrations stored, and how to delete them?

I just started with a very basic site look and about 30 online images. Still testing, finetuning, and learning.
Planning to add 1,000 images this month.

Don't underestimate the adoption speed and growth potential. The Symbiostock growth will be steep and exponential.
10,000 images in last two weeks vs 20,000 images added last month vs 65,000 images in previous 5 months.
I can see 120,000 images by end of August, and 250,000 by year end.

[Edited on Aug 15] At 300 images now

1. Just to clarify - my problem was related to the image categories drop down or image category indexing - not to the image keywords.

2. I wasn't aware of any problems with Search. I couldn't find any old posts describing this problem. Can you point me to those posts?

I just tested the search with my limited image collection, and couldn't find any problems. As far as I can see, the Search will look at the keywords only (exact wording).
For example, if an animal picture is in the Nature category, but was not keyworded with "nature", the search won't find. However, you would find it in  the Nature image category. After adding the keyword "nature" to the image, the Search will find it.

However, there is a problem with singular and plural forms.
If I specify "animal" as keyword, and then search for it as "animal", the Search will find it. If I search for "animals", I am out of luck.
How should we deal with this problem? Include both plural and singular forms in the keywords, or hope that the Search will evolve to be able to recognize both forms?   

3. What happens if you rename the slug from nature-2 to something else halfway through your uploading (or a year from now)? Will you have to delete and reupload the related images uploaded prior to the slug change?

4. Lastly, is this indexing structure included in Leos' Symbiostock theme or is it an integral part of the wordpress (taxonomy and keyword/tag indexing)?

 

I renamed the slugs in the image keywords, then in image categories, and it didn't help.
I deleted the "animal" category twice, deleted all animal images,  re-created the animal category, and re-uploaded the animal images.
The item structure is now consistent, all image category URL links have now the same syntax:
http://www.advantica.com/stockphotos/image-type/animal/
but the problem remains the same.

For the animals - the image category was "animals" and image keyword "animal". Automatically generated slugs were animal and animals-2

Interestingly, the nature category was "nature" and image keyword 100% identical "nature", (no singular and plural differences there) slugs were nature and nature-2 and in this case,  the problem didn't occur, those image categories display correctly.

So, I renamed the "animals" category to "animal" to  make it same as the keyword, deleted and reuploaded the images, but that didn't help either.

I'll check tomorrow for other matching keywords and category pairs.
 

I uploaded the first night after the announcement over 100 images and agree with Dan that Benji is nice and decent guy. I had a question, and he sent me a personal email and some tips next day. Next morning, there were just 1,500 images online, including mine (for a brief moment in the history, my percentage in that collection was about 8% of the total).
 
Here are the numbers:
I priced my images between 10 and 30 Euros. There were some nice images there in a similar price range, and others in the collection were quite poor and priced at 1 Euro.
I started with about 120 views, (some bot goes through every image and sends out a tweet for each), and then every day the total view count increased by only about 10. My sales figure after a week stands at 0.

It doesn't look that after the initial surge the website is getting much traffic or maybe the buyers are looking only at the 1 Euro images.

I've been testing my Symbio site with a small sample of images (maybe 15 in total).
Most image categories work properly, but I discovered two problems with some image categories.

1. Some images do not get included in the defined image categories. I can't see why some items do get included and some not.

2. For example, the dropdown animals image category shows no entries, whereas if you bypass the Dropdown Categories, the next screen shows 4 items in the animals category (in paranthesis)  - Animals(4)
What could be causing the disconnect and is there a way to sync those two displays of categories?
 
my website is http://advantica.com.stockphotos

If I want to add short blogs to my stockphoto site,
a) is it best to create a separate wordpress blog site and link it to the Symbio site via an external link or
b) can you use the Posts (or pages?) in the existing Symbio site and incorporate the blog structure (current and archives) in the menu?

I have an existing blogsite at www.advantica.wordpress.com, used for general blogging, but there I don't mix image pages and posts (images are included directly in the posts).

If I want to add blogs directly to the Symbio stockphoto site, should I write blogs as posts or pages, and how can I separate them from the image pages?
 
Thank you in advance,

Les

 

I just installed Symbiostock and Amanda's Clean Theme, and uploaded a few images for testing. I'm new to the wordpress and I'm struggling with the subsequent steps.

1. The image thumbnails appear under the related categories, and when I click on the zoom (Preview) button underneath the thumbnail a large image picture is displayed. However, when I click on the actual thumbnail, I get a message "Oops! That page can�t be found." - It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try one of the links below or a search?

How can I fix this?

2. I can't figure out how to create the Latest and Featured galleries. Can the new images be fed automatically to the Latest Gallery or do I have to stuff them into the galleries manually?

I did set some images to Featured in the Image Edit, and nothing happens. Whats the proper method to put the images into Featured Gallery?

My (initial) website is advantica.com/stockphotos

Thanks in advance,

Les