Usually is about 3 days between purchase and the sale notification.

Quote from: zager on August 03, 2013, 06:55
Just a note: Video curating queue was eliminated.

Quoting one of the curators: "It's really odd to look at the queue (or that tiny little something what used to be The Mighty Queue)"

Great news! Just had a batch of videos accepted in very quick time. Thanks!

Congrats! Great to hear. And a huge thanks to all involved fro me as well, especially Leo.

Quote from: dash on June 30, 2013, 19:26
Up and running

MSG name: Dash
Website:  www.dashphoto.eu
Topics:  Sexy people
Portfolio size: 11500+
Would like to link with: Everyone who wants to

Great images! I added you to my network.

Just did a test with 2.4.6 and registration emails came through instantly to different providers, and test purchase worked smoothly with email sent and product showed up for download.

Congrats! Sales on Pond5 always feel great. May it be your first of many.

Down 30% on April 2013.
Up 33% on May 2012.
An above average month.

Name: The Ruchos
Site: http://www.theruchos.com
Contribution: Beta tester V1 & V2, code hacker.
MSG Profile: http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=35893

Revostock doesn't sell a lot for me, but pops in for 1 or 2 sales each month. ClipCanvas hasn't done much, with only one file sold in the past year. So for me Revostock is worth it.

Sales have been very good there for me, peaking with a really good month last month. Then it has gone very quiet this month. Still plenty of time for this month to kick into gear though.

Small video portfolios there for some who have commented above make ebbs and flows very noticeable. Until you have a good size selection (at least 1000+) of videos covering a broad range of subjects, it's hard to blame the ups and downs on any external factors.

Quote from: sjlocke on April 23, 2013, 03:03
Is there some link somewhere to view your portfolio?  I can't for the life of me find one. 

eta:  Never mind.  Had to go to an image to find it.  What a terrible, cluttered interface.

If you click on your username in the top right corner (right after the "Hi") on any page on the site, it will take you right to your portfolio page.

Quote from: grsphoto on April 16, 2013, 15:39
BTW I have some out going networks, but I don't have any incoming ( I think)  does someone want to test my site to make sure it works?  http://stockimages.glennspecht.com/wp/

I added you, and looks like it works great:
http://www.theruchos.com/search-images/farm/

I just tried it, and you came up #1 in the search results for me as well.

Great camel shot!

And Leo, feel free to use screengrabs from my site.

Image shows up in the networked search, but your site avatar and logo aren't showing up:
http://www.theruchos.com/search-images/meadow/

Leo pointed a problem with my site out, so networking results weren't being shown when others added me. It is fixed now, so feel free to add me again if you wish: http://www.theruchos.com

I was having trouble after upgrading to the latest version, with the sale going through, but not triggering once it got back to the customer area. I tracked it down to fixing the following:

In ipn/paypal_ipn.php line 34, it reads:

//sandbox url...uncomment for testing
$ch = curl_init('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
//$ch = curl_init('https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');


it should be (for real sales, not when sandbox testing):

//sandbox url...uncomment for testing
//$ch = curl_init('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
$ch = curl_init('https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');


Now it is working beautifully.

Quote from: Leo on April 01, 2013, 03:31
And your on bluehost? Are you on a typical plan or upgraded one?

Just the standard cheapo plan.

Quote from: Microstock Man on April 01, 2013, 03:08
My post_max size is 64mb already, as set by my host, as is my upload_max. My PHP memory limit is 128mb.

I'm having no problems with most of my earlier, smaller files, but anything off my D800 just fails. Yet to work out the exact file size limit, but thinking its something like over 10-15mb just leaves an empty "Process Images" page with only the first image processed, but without the actual image - just its keywords and title etc.

The biggest file I have uploaded so far was about 28mb ( this one http://www.theruchos.com/stock-photo/panoramic-view-of-an-australian-farm/ )
My post_max_size is set at 100mb, and memory_limit is 256mb. These were already set like that, and haven't changed them for this site.

Quote from: steheap on March 31, 2013, 21:42
Hi Ruchos

I'm with Blue Host now and have no trouble with images below 10M - above that I get an error after uploading when I go to the Process page which tells me the image was not named properly or something like that.

Do you use FTP for your larger images or the in-theme uploading process?

Steve

I use the in-theme uploading. Haven't tried FTP yet.
In the Symbiostock settings page, go to the settings tab, and search for "memory_limit" and see what it is set at.

Quote from: steheap on March 31, 2013, 16:53
Ruchos

I noticed in the hosting thread that you use BlueHost successfully. What is the largest image file size you have uploaded so far? I'm searching for a new host (currently with 1and1) and I want to make sure I move somewhere that will be a long term host as I have a lot of sites to move!

Steve

Largest image size so far was about 24MB.

Quote from: steheap on March 31, 2013, 15:28
Nice site!  How did you put the three alternative pages onto the home page? And add the new menu items? I was trying to do that with my About page, but with no success so far

Steve

Thanks Steve.
For the 3 alternative pages on the home page, do you mean the image slider? For that, I created a static page for the home page (and set it as the home page in Settings > Reading, and on that page put a slider gallery. I am trying one called Metaslider, but there are lots out there.

For the new menu items, In the backend, under Appearance > Menus you can create custom menus and add whatever pages you want to them, and then assign them to one of 4 menu locations on the site. I have custom menus added to the 'Above Header' and 'Header Menu' locations.

MSG name: Ruchos
website: The Ruchos Stock Images
url: http://www.theruchos.com
your photo topics: People, Lifestyle, Travel, Agriculture.
Portfolio size: Initially will be about 500. Lots more to come in the future though.
what  you're looking for:  People, lifestyle, travel and nature photographers to network with.

My site is setup and ready to network if anyone wants to network and/or use it to test their sites networking capabilities.

Quote from: cidepix on March 31, 2013, 02:27
I noticed a bug on http://www.theruchos.com/stock-photo/baby-monkey-and-mother-on-a-ledge/

maybe he/she is aware of it and maybe not.. but when you click on any resolution to purchase the image, it doesn't function at all.. (neither IE9 nor chrome)

maybe this is not a general issue and something is messed up when styling the site.. I haven't yet uploaded an image myself, so I don't know..

Thanks for the heads up (and thanks Leo for the email).

My problem came from doing child themes. In two template files they looking to include files that were in the symbiostock folder, but were still being directed to look in the current (or child theme) folder.

in Footer.php:
include_once('modal-login.php');

in taxonomy-image-tags.php:
include_once('modal-search.php');

Seems to be all working again now.

Quote from: Leo on March 30, 2013, 09:10
Ok. Forgive me - whats involved? Changing dollar sign to another sign?

It would need changing the currency sign shown, and the currency code sent to Paypal.