I was curious and I ran a few pages from my best selling agency through this tool.  The results were "Found 208 urls from where 196 unique" on one of my best sellers.

I tried a few other pages, some had a little more some a little less, but I know this particular agency is fantastic at SEO and gets a lot of their buyers from Google, so I'm not sure how much that number actually affects things but I'm also no SEO expert.

Hello all, I sent out a new version of CleanTheme last night but it appears there was an error that wasn't appearing on my test environment or demo site. (The joys of coding!) If you got that email please disregard and keep Cleantheme 1.0 until I send out the new update (hopefully tonight)  Very sorry for any inconvenience, if you had already upgraded and need help please feel free to email me amanda [at] creativembers [dot] com.

Hi Tina,

Clean theme hides the admin bar so that customers don't see the Wordpress elements of your site when they are logged in.  I can help you take this function out if you'd rather have the admin bar/dashboard link showing. 

Can you tell me what happens when you log out?  I'm not having that issue on the demo site so I'm not sure what could be causing that for you.  I have emailed you version 1.0 to test per your request. 

The first thing I would check is if the file actually exists at wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock-watermark.png ( it would be really strange if it didn't, just making sure!)

Second, I would try uploading your own watermark or even just a placeholder to test a few uploads and see if that works.

Just out of curiosity, was the first image you uploaded smaller than the ones that didn't work?

Yeah unfortunately shared hosting is always going to be a bit luck of the draw as you don't know who your neighbors are or what kind of traffic/processes they have going.  That will be the same with basically any of the lower cost shared hosts.  Hopefully when the sites become profitable it will make sense to upgrade.  I'm looking at upgrading to VPS with Bluehost this month ($29.99 per/month level) since I'm running several sites on my account now. If I get that done I'll report back on speed.

Hi Ron, you don't need to delete Yoast it's still recommended as it does everything else really well.  Leo's plugin is just adds some extra features to sitemaps specifically for Symbiostock.

I tend to think that setting up and running your own site is enough of an effort that it will self regulate.  If people join and start uploading what we might consider sub par images they either won't sell causing those people lose interest or they'll improve their work to get sales.

I doubt too many people will pay for hosting/domain and put the time and work in to keep uploading to a site that makes no money, unless they have a serious passion for selling images in which case they probably aren't crap

In the meantime if you don't want your customers seeing their images you have the option to not have them in your network so it's a win win without having to exclude anybody.  Basically as I see it people will earn their own "spot" in the network by having good images and more connections.

Another question: Is anyone using jetpack? How is it performing with sys website?

I recommend Jetpack and use it for stats, contact form, sharing buttons and it can be useful for custom CSS editing as well.  Because it's provided by the Wordpress crew all of the plugins are fairly up to date and actively worked on by knowledgeable developers which is nice. 

There are a few tutorials that include it here: http://www.symbioguides.com/?s=jetpack&post_type%5B%5D=st_kb

That's really odd I haven't been able to reproduce the issue with my test site, which keeps the custom CSS through updates. 

The only thing I can think of is that you have to do the edits under Edit CSS (which is actually a feature of Jetpack) and not under Editor, but it sounds like you are doing it in the proper place so that shouldn't be the issue. Sorry for the trouble!  I would suggest to everyone to keep a back up of any changes you make to any child theme just in case.

Just to dispel any confusion, you are correct that the purpose of a child theme is so that you won't lose edits when the main theme is updated, and that is true if the edits are actually written into the child theme itself. The changes Cathy is referring to is additional custom edits to a child theme added through a Jetpack function. (So they aren't actually being written into the child theme css file.) This is the "proper" way to edit a child theme though in case that also gets updated.

If anyone is curious I have a few screen shots here: 
http://www.creativembers.com/customizing-a-symbiostock-child-theme/

Hmm. How important is the "Select another theme" thing? Yesterday I just deleted the Arctium theme without selecting another WP theme before uploading and activating/deactivating the 2.5.5 theme zip. I have the child theme installed.

I don't seem to have any problems so far but wonder if I may have broken something that's going to catch me out at some point.

You should be just fine, this is only for the case where the theme needed to be re-uploaded manually, so when you are just doing the easy/standard update it won't be an issue.  Also since you have the child theme it wouldn't have been a problem, but in Ron's case Wordpress won't allow you to delete an active theme so that's why he had to activate another.  Hope that helps!

Ron, have you done changes the CSS or PHP files?  It looks like your site is pretty close to the base theme from what I can see.

Your images, menus license etc won't be deleted because they aren't saved in your theme, they are saved in the database.

Hi Ron,

Send me a message about what you've done so far and I'll see if I can get your changes converted to a child theme so you won't lose them when you update. 

You are  correct on 2 & 3 as far as I know.  I'll have to take a closer look at the filtering system to answer 4.

I'm not sure about 5 maybe someone else can chime in on that?

Thank you, I'm going to make that adjustment for the update of Cleantheme, was just waiting a bit for the dust to settle on the main theme since I had one or two new elements to style.  I'll be sending out the updated version this week!