APA linked to this free plugin today.  I haven't had a chance to look into it (at all), but may be worth taking a look - and in the video they ask for feedback, so hopefully will further develop.

http://graphpaperpress.com/2012/11/14/sell-media-is-finally-here/

Wow, very cool, just yesterday I was looking for something like this! Thanks for the link! 

I did not look very closely (maybe our friend Cory will have some time  ) but at first glance it looks more like RM and does not offer multiple sizes.  It is a free plugin, the watermark extension is $29 and the hover/magnify glass is $5 - but it demo didn't work on ie for me - it did on ff.

I'm pretty sure I will try it, up to my eyballs in hockey and ringette teams at the moment though.  I'll have to let you guys work out the kinks since I won't have much time before Christmas break.

it does look like a very interesting feature, I have never tried worldpress and I would like to know what are the requirements to get a website running, do we need anything else beside the following?

- register a domain (how much are we talking about? 10$/year?)
- hosting (FTP, MySQL and unlimited space) (seen a few pro solutions from them at 35$/month with 35GB)
- a theme (100$/year to access all themes or buying a single theme for 75$)

is it better than ktools or cms? does it require more skills and work?

p.s: not saying I am going to open my own store just thinking out loud

This plugin looks promising.

With so many options its best to do the hard graft and research it yourself -  It does require a server with PHP, SQL. Make sure your theme has good support. A lot don't!

Themeforest.net !  Around $40.

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Quote from: luissantos84 on November 16, 2012, 16:38

it does look like a very interesting feature, I have never tried worldpress and I would like to know what are the requirements to get a website running, do we need anything else beside the following?

- register a domain (how much are we talking about? 10$/year?)
- hosting (FTP, MySQL and unlimited space) (seen a few pro solutions from them at 35$/month with 35GB)
- a theme (100$/year to access all themes or buying a single theme for 75$)

is it better than ktools or cms? does it require more skills and work?

p.s: not saying I am going to open my own store just thinking out loud

a theme for $100 ? you don't have to get a theme from these guys to make the plugin work.. This plugin should work with any theme.. once you install wordpress, you can choose a theme in your admin panel.. and I guess there are thousands of free themes..

thanks for your reply! so its just the domain register, hosting and watermark/magnifier feature (implementing a watermark in a few k's of pictures would be quite consuming, maybe not much on a automate batch)

it's cheaper than you think.. It's insane that people still don't have their personal stores

I recommend godaddy.com for hosting.. It's cheap and (in my experience) reliable..

before them, I had many problems with 3 different hosting companies.. since I switched to godaddy, I have always been up and running, apart from an incident when they had a major problem and many sites were down for a few hours.. good thing, when the site was back, it was back in one piece everything was good and they offered about $8 or $9 discount as an apology when I extended my hosting plan..

Overall, they have been the best and smoothest hosting provider for me.. and I have used enough to know that they are good and cheap..

Tried it on my Wordpress as I was looking for this exact feature - I thought WOW great and it's free.

LoL you get what you pay for. I'm running the Athualpa theme and for some reason my uploaded image doesn't show up at all.

Configuration settings appear to be quite limited. Enhanced search options cannot be deactivated and mess up my search box placement in the side bars - bummer.

Also every uploaded image requires a manual page creation with a shortcode pasted into it. So, individual photo pages are not generated automatically.

I can see that it would be too much to ask for all that but I can't use it out of the box, at all. It's pretty much not-functional for me.

So I have to do research and coding to make the sucker work.

Watermark feature is $29 - well so it's not free!

I think I've seen other solutions for Wordpress. Maybe there's another one that will work for me.

I'm hosting my site at Hostgator. Got a great deal and super reliability. Shared hosting is still quite fast and issues are resolved swiftly.

it does look like a very interesting feature, I have never tried worldpress and I would like to know what are the requirements to get a website running, do we need anything else beside the following?

- register a domain (how much are we talking about? 10$/year?)
- hosting (FTP, MySQL and unlimited space) (seen a few pro solutions from them at 35$/month with 35GB)
- a theme (100$/year to access all themes or buying a single theme for 75$)

is it better than ktools or cms? does it require more skills and work?

p.s: not saying I am going to open my own store just thinking out loud

You don`t really need much, basically what you mentioned, and I think anybody with a little time can get a WP site running well. However, there is one critical point you have to watch out before getting a domain: the PHP memory size the hoster gives you. Quick explanation: When you upload your images the PHP software (Wordpress) has to resize your full res images to thumbs, process them to watermarked material etc. This takes memory from your server. Many shared Hosting packages limit the memory usage used by scripts to not waste their ressources (many sites on one server = shared). To expand the memory you have to change the setting in the PHP ini. It is just a text file on the server and very easy, but you need access to it or the Company has to allow this and support will do it for you. I think the minimum should be around 512 megs.

Be sure to make this clear before signing up for a package:
1. Lots of PHP memory assigned in the ini  OR
2. Access to the php.ini file to make your own adjustments.

Tried it on my Wordpress as I was looking for this exact feature - I thought WOW great and it's free.

LoL you get what you pay for. I'm running the Athualpa theme and for some reason my uploaded image doesn't show up at all.

Configuration settings appear to be quite limited. Enhanced search options cannot be deactivated and mess up my search box placement in the side bars - bummer.

Also every uploaded image requires a manual page creation with a shortcode pasted into it. So, individual photo pages are not generated automatically.

I can see that it would be too much to ask for all that but I can't use it out of the box, at all. It's pretty much not-functional for me.

So I have to do research and coding to make the sucker work.

Watermark feature is $29 - well so it's not free!

I think I've seen other solutions for Wordpress. Maybe there's another one that will work for me.

I'm hosting my site at Hostgator. Got a great deal and super reliability. Shared hosting is still quite fast and issues are resolved swiftly.

it might be worth your effort if you can make this one work properly for you because wordpress is a "traffic magnet" compared to Ktools and CMS account..

Post comments for them to look at.  Strictly for my benefit of course.  You guys can get it all worked out and then when I am less crazy again I can download v2!

anyone else tried this one?

Tried it today. As others have stated it lacks many features. If you are on a budget with a small portfolio, and only selling RF then definitely worth looking at.

I'm now trying Photoshelter ($10/month + 10% commission). It took very little time to setup for RM and integrate into my Wordpress site. Its not completely seamless, but you can customise it to look almost seamless. Quite like it so far. Not sure if it can re-size images to their respective RM sizes.

Yes, I tried it the other day as well.. It is far from ideal.. I'd rather pay for ktools than put up with this..

why don't you get ktools instead of paying photoshelter every month? I think it could be better in the long run.. I already have CMS account for my site and I like it.. I believe you have to have either ktools or CMSaccount..

I was just wondering if this plug-in could replace them as wordpress is much better SEO'd than both.. but it is pretty poor the way it is..

I want to stay with Wordpress for its SEO and many other features. Also, its quite possible someone, maybe Sellmedia, will develop a better plugin for our needs in the near future. With a small portfolio like mine I can afford to experiment.

I decided to stick with Photoshelter and picked up a Graph Paper Press Wordpress template for it. Google loves Wordpress so we'll see how this goes.