How are you guys doing the new and featured images on the front page? I'm not terribly new to wordpress but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

When you go into your WordPress dashboard hover over Settings (it'll be on the left hand side of the page) a pop over menu will pop up and click on permalinks.

Once that page loads under common settings you'll click on the post name radio button then scroll down and click the save changes button.

Thanks Anita, I just followed the instructions this time. I think I'll give it up for the night though. Having an error I can't figure out trying to modify header.php

It's not ok. It's broken. If I remove the referral it works though ... Not sure what I did. It seemed to work last night.

Sorry, fixed it with a lowercase s.

I tried it again but, then had to copy and paste the keywords into my files metadata which is kind of a pain

I'm not trying their distribution, I'm just going to use my credits on files that I'm not sure how to keyword. There's also http://prostockmaster.com/ which I don't know too much about. I did use the trial for a couple weeks or whatever it is.

Around ... 1/3 of the time that the client supplies the images I have to decline them. One yesterday from one of our very own salespeople (at least he's new and had an excuse),

Yeah, I noticed the comma got stuck in the link, and tried editing it twice ... I must be naive or something because both times it just stayed there.

Personally, I've only had a couple problems with godaddy (I've had up to four hosted simultaneously). The shared hosting is always a pain but, you'll find that with any of your cheaper hosting. They're a fair bit more expensive on renewals than what they're offering new customers (go figure, the cable company does that crap). But, a few years ago, after I'd been a customer for quite a while ... I had to switch to monthly payments, before they'd called me if the payment was overdue or whatever. It was the farthest thing from my mind as I was mainly focused on trying to survive, they deleted ALL of my content for ONE late payment ... It wasn't even a month late, it was only a week or so ... But, I'm still with them ... Mostly because it's a hassle to register somewhere else and try to figure out their site and whatever.

I jumped on this thread for one simple purpose, is it possible to install symbiostock but, keep most of my theming in place? Or would it be easier to apply symbiostock to a page and then child theme it to look like the main site? I highly doubt it's even beneficial for me to be considering this with my tiny port. But, it's only one more site and figured it was worth the ask ...

So, through a discussion here I learned of picworkflow.com and today I purchased some credits to see how well the keywording works. How many others use picworkflow, do you use their keywords? What other of their services are handy? I'm pretty new and only contribute to a handful of sites so I'm not sure if having them upload files will save me a ton of time.

Just interested to see, I was hoping they had a smaller package than the $10 ... But, maybe I'll try their upload thing. :/

That plugin truly is a blast.

"I'm doing great! I deleted my portfolio about 3 years ago, and I've never been happier."

Thanks! I just spilled my coffee on myself laughing so hard! 

Yeah, I must have deleted the e-mail. Something like, if the file doesn't have sales for 6 months it drops in price, and then if it gets 3 sales you have the option of repricing it.

How do you guys find idea's that sell? Is there a way to find commonly searched keywords? How much time do you find you can devote to one single file with the continually declining royalties?

I'm getting a bit better, and find myself caught in an internal battle of how long I WANT to spend on a file to sell for so cheaply. I know I can illustrate better than even my last file. But, I spent hours on that even. I suppose I'm not all that concerned with the money, as microstock illustrating is more of a hobby currently. But, a couple bucks a week or so wouldn't be too bad

Am I naive, I downloaded PicNiche and can't really figure it out. Is it just a search tool? on their website it says something about keyword ratings but ... with the toolbar I'm not seeing any ratings or anything really. Just searching agencies really :/

I'm sure I could figure it out if I dug around a bit. But, any tips are appreciated.

Also, thanks for the compliment. I wouldn't say any of my files have had "success" but, really (attempting) illustrating is more of a hobby, I don't really expect to make much, or anything really. But, I like to contribute and practice.