100% Stability. Lets fix the final few bugs. The Final Bug Stomping Thread+

[Ron]

Dont know if it has been addressed yet, dont know if its a bug either.

When I edit cart.php and save it back into the cart folder the site goes blank for most people and the Jetpack visitor graph image in the top bar disappears. Its causing a lot of issues. And all I did was remove the brackets of the Euro symbol. But also when I changed the paypal .gif link, it happened. It seems the site doesnt like it when someone tampers with the cart.php file.

[klsbear]

Thanks guys. The messaging and paypal system seems to be the main areas of work needed. Keep posting stuff. I would be happy if someone with the email issue also set me up with an admin account on their site.

You're already admin on my site and I'm having the e-mail problem.  As of this morning, no e-mail with the password.

UPDATE!

I tried registering using my gmail.com address and the password came through instantly.  It was there by the time I hit "register" and then clicked over to e-mail.  It actually arrived before I got the notice telling me a new user had registered.

Next step was to try again using my Cablevision (cable provider) address. That's the one that never came through last night.  Still not getting that one so I called Support at the cable company.   They had to disable something called SpamScrub and then had me try registering again.  It went through that time but McAfee sent it into the Spam filter. 

So it seems that something in the automated password e-mail is getting caught up in my cable provider's spam filters and never even getting through to me. 

Short of telling individuals or companies to disable or loosen up spam filters on e-mails, what can we do to make the automated e-mails go through?  Leo, I'm hoping now that the cause has been identified you can make some alterations to get the e-mails passed as "not spam."

ETA - SpamScrub is supplied to Cablevision by Brightmail which is part of Symantec - here's a link with more detail http://www.symantec.com/message-filter

I looked at the e-mail and there are nine links in it - an e-mail address I included in my welcome letter and my website in the signature (didn't realize that was also automatically added elsewhere) and 7 links as part of the automated process.  My guess is that the spam filter is triggering because of so many links.

I'm seeing 4 links to my site (at the top, in the copyright, the "about" link and again at the very bottom) in addition to the Symbiostock link, and the links to log in and license area.  Perhaps cutting down on the repetition of links that go to the general site, or "about" areas would help, along with a caution to avoid adding more links in the body of the e-mail.  I'll test a little later cutting out the two I included in the body of the e-mail to see if that gets through. Updated to add that taking those two extra e-mails out did not make a difference.  Still can't get through the spam blocker used by my cable provider.

[THP Creative]

When logged in as an admin, when you look at other peoples (clients) user profile, it still shows up the "Symbiostock Profile and Extended Network Info" section at the bottom of each user, but with the Admin user's details listed in the fields.

The clients can't actually see those fields, only the admin, but its pretty confusing to see your admin details listed underneath a clients user info.

[cascoly]

Steve, it does not go into the meta description, for which I an thankful as have enough problems gett that short enough at the moment . 

It does go into the Excerpt though which is useful

I think we're mixing 2 different things - metadata here is the exif, xmp and iptc data in the image itself - not the meta description on a webpage

I edited those fields offlline and uploaded and got those results - it's the only way the data could have been obtained.  I haven't seen it occur again so it may have been a transient problem in processing a few versions ago

[Leo Blanchette]

New version for download:


http://www.symbiostock.com/v2-4-2-ready-for-download-about-new-marketing-feature/


Report bugs till your fingers hurt

[cascoly]

installed latest version and it looks good so far -- test sites that I had blocked are still blocked

however, it's really difficult to know who to promote, since the list is unsorted and I don't know who I already have in my network without paging back and forth -- how about indicating which sites are in your network on the marketing page? and also sorting the sites on that page alphabetically?

also is it explained anywhere just what promoting a site will do?

[Leo Blanchette]

Right now it does nothing. Marketing page is very much still in development. I wanted to keep everyone included by default, so promote may be able to add them to some site links? I dunno...lets get creative.

[Kerioak~Christine]

Still cannot get png's AND jpg's to appear on published page when uploaded together.

They both show up when going for processing
The sizes show up (as original default, not MY default) when editing
Only png's show up when published.

A couple of times managed to get both but not since

[cascoly]

Right now it does nothing. Marketing page is very much still in development. I wanted to keep everyone included by default, so promote may be able to add them to some site links? I dunno...lets get creative.

ok, here'sm y list

1. display all links sorted alphabetically
2. promote all extended sites  by default, then let owner turn them off
3. on search, randomly search the promoted sites until X sites are found.
4. as hooks, eg include the time it takes to do each network search so we have a better idea of what's possible - eg, now we're just guessing that 10 is a good number to search, but it may be that we can do more with only a little more processing time

in looking at the promoted keywords, I've realized that there's a big difference between what's promoted and what's actually being requested

eg, here are my most recent search queries:
how manay of these would be found in promoted keywords?  so it might be a better strategy to use long tail keywords since most traffic is going to be more specific. 

 basalt cliffs 22    -  9.0 
 battle of camden     -  150 
 blonde pretty     -  42 
 brocade fabric 70    -  39 
 crab floats 30    -  13 
 duck confit fries     -  4.7 
 free photography logo 16    -  21 
 horses     -  300 
 human anatomy 16    -  90 
 interior mosque 12    -  8.4 
 map of virgina     -  11 
 medieval knights     -  82 
 minipic 30    -  78 
 mosque courtyard 16    -  9.9 
 my stock logo
 photography logo 16    -  50 
 pictures of medieval knights     -  22 
 rajasthani wall hanging 16    -  4.9 
 rajasthani wall hangings 50    -  7.4 
 silk brocade fabric 70    -  10 
symbiostock 600  22  4%  5.5 

[steheap]

Again, sorry if I have missed the discussion on this in the various threads....

What did we decide to do about the in-site search? The issue that if I add the phrase "new york" in my keywords, it isn't found by searching the words "new york", or "york". The only way I think it can be found from within the site search is by including the separate keywords "new" and "york" but that they throws up incorrect search results because the images aren't of "York"!!

Google searches these things OK, so external searches will find the right images, but it makes the site seem very unresponsive once you are actually there.

Steve

[THP Creative]

Yep, insite search needs addressing.

Also, I'm reposting this bit from another thread about SEO and selling direct...

This just makes getting Symbiostock PROPERLY responsive even more important.

Yep, it's almost there already, Leo's done 99% of the work, but there a couple of things that need doing asap.

On an iPhone (tested 3GS, and 4 models) the search bar in the header is never size adjusted properly, its not responsive.

see here for an example - http://www.woorank.com/en/www/thpstockphotos.com - gives you a visual of how it looks on iphone and iPad.

The mobile menu implementation needs improving. We need the mobile menu to work WITHOUT having to put the menu in the site's footer which is very ugly.

Really think this needs to be counted as a bug or similar, as the site is so close to being good on a mobile device but just misses the mark in a few crucial areas. Mobile is the way of the future, so we gotta get this right.

[THP Creative]

also Leo, in the link above, Woorank doesn't seem to be able to pickup the Dublin Core that you implemented?

[Leo Blanchette]

also Leo, in the link above, Woorank doesn't seem to be able to pickup the Dublin Core that you implemented?

Dublin core is experimental and not recognized by everyone - what part are you looking for that your not finding? Dublin core's main objective is to have machine-recognizable markup so it knows what your page is about.

[Leo Blanchette]

Only one check per site? These places are rip-offs.

If you want to sense if dublin core is working or not, its on the image page that it kicks in:

http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/3d-green-fibonacci-pattern-abstract-sciencemathematicsenvironmental-concept/

If someone hasn't used up their 1-shot on that website, maybe you can see it at work in the above link - or not.

[Leo Blanchette]

Here - if you want to check dublin core in action on your site, use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/dublin-core-viewer/#id=528

You will see it on your image page and on your (experimental) datasheet page.

EDIT: The ONE place on your site where SEO matters, should be absolutely micromanaged, and held under a constant microscope is your image page. Everything else is just complementary.

[THP Creative]

Only one check per site? These places are rip-offs.

If you want to sense if dublin core is working or not, its on the image page that it kicks in:

http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/3d-green-fibonacci-pattern-abstract-sciencemathematicsenvironmental-concept/

If someone hasn't used up their 1-shot on that website, maybe you can see it at work in the above link - or not.

ah of course, its not finding it on the front page cos its not there! Doh! Hopefully someone can try the image page, but I'm sure itll work.

Any thoughts Leo on finishing off the responsive side of things?

[Leo Blanchette]

The responsive side of things ... small project. If you'd like to go through a quick run-through and find all the places that don't respond properly (you know, squash, collapse, etc) I (or someone) can give it a quick run-through towards the end.

But anyway Dublin core is working great ... just checked.

[THP Creative]

Great, thanks Leo, getting it mobile friendly is time well spent I think. Ill do some searching for those spots now...

[THP Creative]

List of site elements that need correcting for fully responsive design: (if anyone else finds any, please add them! Please note this is all from looking at my Retina iPhone4 so will be different perhaps to iPad - can someone with an iPad make similar checks to add to this list?)

1. Header - All elements, including search box (REMOVE the image/blog drop down?) and search button
2. Menu - Need a responsive menu that doesn't have to be added in the footer of the theme. See an example on my other site http://www.microstockman.com on a mobile device and you will see what kind of a floating menu we could have. Also on my iPhone for some reason a large "Menu" word appears above the menu as a h1 tag I think. Ditch it.
3. Latest images, similar images & featured images widgets - center the images on screen, currently they are in a single column off center on all widgets.
4. Search results page - similar to number 3, images need centring as they are all in a single column
5. Search results page (http://thpstockphotos.com/?s=tree&post_type=image ) - networked search results completely messed up, images overlapping each other, bunched up, squashed etc, author avatar and drop down not displaying nicely. This display needs a lot of work.
6. Image page - Author picture needs padding & centring when it falls under the Photographer Info drop down
7. Networked members widget & Page (http://thpstockphotos.com/symbiostock-network/ ) - avatar displays odly under the drop downs
8. Symbio Network Directory page (http://thpstockphotos.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ ) - Author bio text overlaps each authors avatar badly, some avatars too big (user uploaded wrong one I'm guessing?) which throws off layout completely.

9. Not just a responsive issue, same on desktop, but when a ZIP file is available, the brackets around the Price Heading ( ( $US ) ) get screwy and one drops down to the next line. Can we just ditch the brackets all together?

10. Layout issue on desktop and mobile - http://thpstockphotos.com/search-images/new-zealand/ (choose a phrase or keyword that no-one else has to see the result) the images overlap the Symbio Extended Network box at the bottom

[cascoly]

re pricng really needs bulk editing -- right now, once you have a few hundred images, the current repricing isn't of much use unless you want to reprice everything -- and even if you did it would mess up zip files which should always be in a separate area for repricing

so there's no way to experiment with different price points, etc

[THP Creative]

Can I make another suggestion...

Could we have a image search 404-type page available within wordpress so we can edit it how we like, rather than the hardcoded one that exists at the moment with the "No Results found. Try browsing the categories. Maybe you will find some hidden gems!" text.

I believe someone suggested a great option earlier about showing networked results on that page, which would be awesome. But at least using a wordpress editable search 404 would make it easier for everyone to be happy.

(edit - adjusted as I realised its not actually using the 404, theres an ACTUAL 404 for wrong URLs - NOT what I was talking about)

[cascoly]

Can I make another suggestion...

Could we have a image search 404-type page available within wordpress so we can edit it how we like, rather than the hardcoded one that exists at the moment with the "No Results found. Try browsing the categories. Maybe you will find some hidden gems!" text.

I believe someone suggested a great option earlier about showing networked results on that page, which would be awesome. But at least using a wordpress editable search 404 would make it easier for everyone to be happy.

(edit - adjusted as I realised its not actually using the 404, theres an ACTUAL 404 for wrong URLs - NOT what I was talking about)

I had suggested it earlier & it's in the latest version -- searching for 'dachshund' on my site, there are no results - it shows my categories, then shows TInny's wiener dogs 

[Leo Blanchette]

Thanks guys! I'm on the bugs today! We'll kill a few of these.

[plrang]

After Network Deactivate / Actriate = 0 people in the network, will have to add them back again :-/

[ajt]

I also killed one today, new code sent