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!

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.

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

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

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.

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/

Great camel shot!

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

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

And your on bluehost? Are you on a typical plan or upgraded one?

Just the standard cheapo plan.

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.

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.

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.