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Off Topic / Re: 13 Reasons Why we are not Successful - Article
« on: September 12, 2013, 16:25 »
What's the definition of successful? What if I think I'm successful, and you think I'm not?
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Off Topic / Re: 13 Reasons Why we are not Successful - Article« on: September 12, 2013, 16:25 »
What's the definition of successful? What if I think I'm successful, and you think I'm not?
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Mostphotos.com / Re: Yuri Arcurs uploading to MostPhotos after being exclusive ???« on: September 12, 2013, 15:48 »Im not against being successful and negotiating your own contracts. But it is not something I would "aspire" to in business. I look for business partners who have the same goals like me.Yuri did negotiate his own terms. I don't really see the point in being jealous about it, I think it shows that contributors still have some value and leverage in this business. Wanting him to have a contract with worse terms because you don't like special deals sounds petty to me. So true. 53
General Stock Discussion / Re: A call to the "Big Players" - Can we tip the scales now?« on: September 12, 2013, 15:45 »
Sometimes we have to leave our comfort zone to find a new comfort zone.
Just this. I don't want to wax lyrical, but this is exactly right. 54
General Stock Discussion / Re: A call to the "Big Players" - Can we tip the scales now?« on: September 12, 2013, 15:36 »
Really interesting comments from fotovoyager.
I'm finding it hard to understand why anyone would say "it" looks ugly. As others have said, everyone has their own site, with their own design - anyone can make their site look any way they wish. If fotovoyager hasn't understood this, does this mean that microstockers in general haven't understood this? I'd be really interested to hear more from FV on the ugliness aspect - have you understood that your site is your own, and can look the way you want it to? 55
Symbiostock - General / Re: Have I missed helping you? Symbiostock is getting too big!« on: September 10, 2013, 00:18 »I still have problems with Batch editor. How are you trying to find the line? If you open the file for editing in your site file manager, press control+F and put 'fopen' without quotes in the search box. That should find it. If it's not there at all, just add Code: [Select] allow_url_fopen = On to the end of the file. 56
Symbiostock - Technical Support / Re: How to Backup Your MySQL Database« on: September 06, 2013, 01:10 »
For those looking for an easy approach to a db backup, we have been using the WP-DBManager plugin on several WP sites for a while. It backs up onto the server, and also emails us a gzipped copy, every 3 days.
For a couple of other MySQL db's (non-WP) we run a simple shell script on a weekly cron schedule, which also emails the backups. 57
Symbiostock - General / Re: duplicate folders« on: September 05, 2013, 01:19 »
It's the same folder structure under two different labels; 'www' is mapped to the actual 'public_html' folder. Nothing to worry about.
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Symbiostock - General / Re: Backing up« on: September 04, 2013, 23:58 »
It looks as if the rush of excited Symbiostock folk was too much for the UpdraftPlus website!
We've just run a basic backup with the free plugin, which seemed to work OK. We already have a Rackspace Cloud account associated with PicturEngine, so we're backing up to that. Quite good value at $0.10/GB/month. We'll be adding the 'More files' option when the shop is open again, to see what they can do with 23.5GB of original files. 59
Symbiostock - Network Building / Re: Improving the integrity of our search engine« on: September 03, 2013, 14:38 »
On the matter of accuracy in keywording nature subjects, there was a similar discussion on the Alamy forum a few months ago. A knowledgeable ornithological type declared there was no such thing as a 'seagull', only varieties of gull.
Someone else then pointed out that there had been many searches on Alamy for 'seagull'; it's likely that most buyers won't be worried about the particular species as long as there is some sort of gull in whatever situation they want. The ornithologist went off to add 'seagull' to his keywords. I agree with Steve above, descriptions should be as precise as possible, but some slack in keywords for the non-expert buyers is a good thing. 60
Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Offering Free Images« on: September 02, 2013, 22:13 »
It's only just gone up so it's a bit early to see anything happening. So far it's only been tweeted, but we'll find a few more ways to spread it around. Once Google pick up the front page banner as a change to the site, it'll be in the search for a while to bring people in, even if the offer image has changed.
It'll be an interesting experiment, and perhaps we can find a way to promote each other's special offers... Ideas? 61
Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Offering Free Images« on: September 02, 2013, 18:31 »
What we're trying here is a month's special offer of a popular file at $1.00 for all sizes. We'll probably run one every month, just to see what happens.
The current bargain is at http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/image/sydney-harbour-bridge-illuminated-at-twilight/ 62
Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Which Yoast sitemap to use for Google Webmasters« on: September 02, 2013, 17:36 »Check my image, you need to submit all sitemaps individually, there is no master sitemap that contains all your site info. You only need to submit sitemap_index.xml Here's what yours looks like: 63
Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Which Yoast sitemap to use for Google Webmasters« on: September 02, 2013, 16:56 »
Very odd! I see what's happening there; you're submitting correctly and the YOAST sitemaps seem to be produced on the fly when called, while the Symbiostock ones are actual files, updated regularly. Something is going wrong in your YOAST setup and the links are not resolving correctly. I notice that your sitemap is calling sitemap.xsl while ours calls main-sitemap.xsl. Your other permalinks are in the standard format, so the rewrite is happening correctly. Looks like a YOAST problem, and I've no further ideas at the moment. Sorry! 64
Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Which Yoast sitemap to use for Google Webmasters« on: September 02, 2013, 15:32 »I'm trying to get my sitemaps (Yoast and Leo's SYS plugin) submitted to Google. The SYS plugin seems to have gone through fine. Thanks, Leo! Yes, you're trying to submit a stylesheet. You should be submitting sitemap_index.xml. 65
Symbiostock - General / Re: Dimensions of watermarked images in my Symbiostock site« on: August 31, 2013, 20:57 »I'm uploading to the directory wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/plupload/uploads/ Alessandro is using 2.5.5 so he is correct. That location changed with 2.5.6. 66
Symbiostock - Technical Support / Re: Oops! That page cant be found when clicking on thumbnail of image« on: August 30, 2013, 16:45 »
If you're using WAMPserver then when it's running left-click on the tray icon, go to Apache > Apache modules and see that rewrite_module is ticked. If not, tick it, restart the Apache service, and try again. This is what operates on the rewrite rules that WP puts in your .htaccess file.
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Symbiostock - General / Re: Critique wanted - too much noise?« on: August 30, 2013, 15:10 »It would probably get rejected at an agency but I think it's an easy to fix when you use a anti noise software. If you use noise reduction, apply it to just the red channel, that's where the worst of it is. 68
Symbiostock - Technical Support / Re: Oops! That page cant be found when clicking on thumbnail of image« on: August 30, 2013, 13:18 »
Read The F***ing Manual...
As it's a local WAMP install, is mod_rewrite enabled in your Apache setup? 69
Symbiostock - Technical Support / Re: Oops! That page cant be found when clicking on thumbnail of image« on: August 30, 2013, 12:44 »When I leave the permalink settings to "default" the site is working fine. The oops page is only showing when I click an image thumbnail. Your experiences are not a reflection on Symbiostock but on people who don't RTFM. Leo made it very clear from day 1 that the permalinks had to be set to Post Name, not only to make the site work but for SEO. Notice this step in Amanda's detailed tutorial: 70
Symbiostock - General / Re: Releasing my First Symbiostock Child Theme« on: August 30, 2013, 11:38 »
Just to emphasise, that's a space between the tags, and it gets the chevron as a background. 71
Symbiostock - General / Re: Releasing my First Symbiostock Child Theme« on: August 30, 2013, 01:43 »I tried adding <i class="icon-chevron-down"> as you showed to one of my menu items that's missing the down arrow and got an amazing "flock of birds in flight" effect all over my home page - lots of arrows, but none anywhere near any menu items! Whoops, I just realised I hadn't put the closing tag in my code snippet! It should be: Code: [Select] <i class="icon-chevron-down"> </i> which would explain that effect. Sorry about that! As you say, it should work, and I have a test installation with the menus built the same way which has all the down-arrows in place. I've been right through the code, which is partly WP core and partly Leo's, and can't see where it goes erratic. 72
Symbiostock - General / Re: Releasing my First Symbiostock Child Theme« on: August 30, 2013, 00:07 »I never figured why the down arrows wouldn't always show, so I added them to the menu item labels as needed: Just caught up with this. For example: 73
Symbiostock - Development Area / Re: Questions about the Premium Plugin« on: August 29, 2013, 14:43 »Do you determine the price of the collections or are there default prices depending on how many images you place in that collection? Or do you have some kind of formula that you come up with on your own? Just curious since I can't do the premium version at this time and I do have sets I want to put together. If you use AJT's stock plugin http://www.ajotte.com/stock-plugin/ you can customise an alert box at the top of the sidebar, triggered by a word in the description (which is then hidden). 74
Symbiostock - General / Re: Releasing my First Symbiostock Child Theme« on: August 29, 2013, 11:25 »
I never figured why the down arrows wouldn't always show, so I added them to the menu item labels as needed:
Code: [Select] <i class="icon-chevron-down"> </i>
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Symbiostock - Development Area / Re: Symbiostock Premium Upgrade Here« on: August 27, 2013, 16:58 »
Some more info on the failed purchase bug. I did a sandbox purchase and on return to the download area the image was still in the cart, and no amount of refreshing would shift it.
I went to Cart Manager and processed the cart for downloading, but it failed with the error message: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home1/traveno8/public_html/picturemojo/wp-content/plugins/ss-cart-manager/functions.php on line 152 Edit - Tried to process again and it failed with no error message... |
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