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

[cascoly]

AJT, I updated that now, thanks 

Casoly, I am not a programmer so I cant do that, I wish i could !!! 

You are people of many talents, I can only shoot crapstock, lol 

right - leo's building in tools so that we can write global search sites that everyone can use.  check out the new reports at http://symbiostock.cascoly.com

[ajt]

Steve, my site here:
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=61
is listed with many duplicated entries.

[Kerioak~Christine]

My Wordfence plugin shows today a bunch of very precise google searches landing on my site. Guess half of the images never showed up because of this.
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Do you have keywords for most of the searches that don't find anything and appear to land on your site.  I think that a lot of them are done though the network especially AJT's strawberry and do not find anything because I do not have the correct keywords

[Leo Blanchette]

Just notes for anyone following this thread - here is a temporary measure to "split" your compound keywords until we make a dedicated database.

http://www.symbiostock.com/split-compound-keywords-into-individual-ones-temporary-search-aid/

[Ron]

This split up code is working:


Keywords
america, Apple, Art, background, big, Big Apple, Blue, City, City of New York, City of New York flag, city seal, colors, eagle, expression, Eye, Face, face paint, fan, Flag, follower, freedom, Gotham, independence, independent, liberty, looking, make, make up, Man, municipal, municipal seal, new, new york, New York city, New York city flag, NY, NY City, NY City flag, NY flag, of, Orange, paint, passion, patriot, patriotic, pride, Red, seal, SIgn, Sports, states, support, supporter, symbol, texture, The, The Big Apple, tricolor, Tricolour, united, United States, up, usa, white, windmill, world, York

It does create a lot of spam though LOL. But I can clean that up once the database is created. But my images pull up now.

[Leo Blanchette]

Spam? Yeah, I was going to make a stop-word filter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words ) but I didn't want to presume and take out something you might need.

[Leo Blanchette]

2.5.0 Ready for download. www.symbiostock.com or just update your theme.

2.5+ is fairly stable. However this nice round number does not imply any HUGE features, other than very good stability.



If I can release latest version tonight, we have some new stats available in Symbiocard (ajt, cascoly, plrang will be curious)

rank_1_images
rank_2_images
rank_3_images

{total of each}

(As you know, these only refer to which images take front seat in your local. Its not a status symbol. So if you have 500 images, and all 500 are rank 1, then you might as well have 500 rank 2 or 3 images.)

rating_0_images
rating_1_images
rating_2_images
rating_3_images

{total of each}

keywords {total}
categories {total}

filter_level{0-3}
allow_unrated{1 or 0}

alexa_popularity
alexa_rank
alexa_reach
alexa_links_in
alexa_speed


This will help VERY MUCH in being able to
A: Create intelligent databases (like AJT and Cascoly are doing)
B: Help people discover how the individual sites are performing.

Also 404's coming from compound tags have been fixed. HOWEVER compound-keywords are still not found in human searches.
Here is a little patch to help with the compound keyword issue:
http://www.symbiostock.com/split-compound-keywords-into-individual-ones-temporary-search-aid/

[Ron]

Spam? Yeah, I was going to make a stop-word filter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words ) but I didn't want to presume and take out something you might need.

I mean spam as in unrelated keywords due to the separation.

For example, New York is also The Big Apple, so now searching for Apple, you get my levitating apple slices and the New York city flag

[steheap]

I've followed this discussion with interest as I also use compound keywords. Am I right in thinking that the latest release 2.5.0 includes a fix that splits compound keywords into their constituent words - ie NEW YORK becomes two words - New and York? I think Leo said that the original compound ones will be kept in the meta data for later use.

Is there a way to get rid of these split words in future -  or are we just creating a massive keyword spam problem for ourselves? As Ron says, searching for Apple now brings up his NYC flags - that isn't what buyers want, in my view. The speed that this appeared made me wonder if all the implications have been thought through - although I hope they have. I'm not at all sure I want my compound keywords split out for ever just to solve a short term issue on site search.

Please tell me there is a way we can get back to our original keywords in a release that is soon to arrive??

Steve

[Ron]

This is the quote from Leo:

Do not worry � a backup of your keywords is saved in your post meta until a future time that the specialized database is ready.

http://www.symbiostock.com/category/symbiostock-code-snippets/

[Kerioak~Christine]

I have been splitting out my keywords since the early days when I realised it only found single words.  So if anyone finds any obvious errors in searches then shout and I will edit them as we may as well keep this as keyword-spam free as we can

[EmberMike]

Not sure if this is a bug or something unique to my site...

When I do a search and click on the zoom icon below a thumbnail in the results, the info displayed in the pop-over window lists size options that aren't available for my images. For example, I don't sell the Bloggee size, but it is still listed in the available options. Not on the image page itself, just in this zoom preview pop-over window in search results.

[cidepix]

It is a general issue.. I mentioned it long time ago but it  was forgotten while dealing with bigger and more important bugs..

Not sure if this is a bug or something unique to my site...

When I do a search and click on the zoom icon below a thumbnail in the results, the info displayed in the pop-over window lists size options that aren't available for my images. For example, I don't sell the Bloggee size, but it is still listed in the available options. Not on the image page itself, just in this zoom preview pop-over window in search results.

[cascoly]

Steve, my site here:
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=61
is listed with many duplicated entries.

yes, I usually clear old symbiocards when updating, but turned that off for a bit while adding promoted keywords parsing.  next update should clear everything out

[cascoly]

....

2.5+ is fairly stable. However this nice round number does not imply any HUGE features, other than very good stability.

....
If I can release latest version tonight, we have some new stats available in Symbiocard (ajt, cascoly, plrang will be curious)

rank_1_images
rank_2_images
rank_3_images

{total of each}

(As you know, these only refer to which images take front seat in your local. Its not a status symbol. So if you have 500 images, and all 500 are rank 1, then you might as well have 500 rank 2 or 3 images.)

rating_0_images
rating_1_images
rating_2_images
rating_3_images

....

filter_level{0-3}
allow_unrated{1 or 0}

.....

what happens right now if you don't rate images? are they set to 2 by default?  if so, what does the 0 rating do?

  if all images have some rating, what does the allow-unrated flag do?

does a filter level of 2 show ratings of 1 and 2? or just 1?

[Ron]

If I accidentally add a space to a search term it wont show any results either. Its counting the space as a character. I thought searches would discard a stray space at the end of a search term.

[Leo Blanchette]

That's the way it should work. Ill check for u

I found the problem. Will fix it next update possibly thursday.

[Leo Blanchette]

2.5.1 is available.

No big fixes or changes - PLRANG wants the image page to be "pluggable" so his plugin works when he releases it to you. Plugins can now do actions on various parts of the image page.

Please tell me if you get prompted for 2.5.1 assuming you've physically downloaded and installed the previous 2.5.0 per the email I sent.

[Ron]

I dont want to use any rating or sensitive filters, can I still upgrade without issues?

[cascoly]

=============== v 2.5.0
*** license_type is no longer in the image xml???

---my default rating is set to GREEN, but when i process new uploads it defaults to '-' which is easy to overlook and would require additional image editing to get it fixed (worse, we might not notice, and images would get filtered when they shouldnt be)

---model released & property released have defaulted to 'yes' rather than n/a

 

---marketing - list of networks still not alphabetical

[Ron]

I am keeping 2.4.9 for now. I have no clue how all that filtering and rating is going to affect things when I dont want to use it or enable it or set it.

[cascoly]

I reset property/model release on author page to NO, then ran the complete update -- went back to edit all my zip files which had been reset to zip not available

the property & model releases were now set to YES

checked other images and ALL I looked at were set to YES for releases - whether published or draft

on my symbio/author page, both release are set to no but even when I upload & process new images, everything is being set to YES

[Kerioak~Christine]

No prompt for 2.5.1 - apart from your message in this thread

[cascoly]

no way to change the ratings or rankings on multiple images selected in bulk edit after search in images

[cascoly]

2.5.1 is available.

....
Please tell me if you get prompted for 2.5.1 assuming you've physically downloaded and installed the previous 2.5.0 per the email I sent.

deleted 2.4.8 & reinstalled 2.5.0, but no mention of 2.5.1 anywhere - and it's not listed under recently updated themes