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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Symbiostock - Development Area => Topic started by: Leo Blanchette on May 18, 2013, 13:40
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When I launch the 2.0+ series, I'd like to have everyone hit the ground running without any problems. 2.0 is vastly different than the sites you are running.
This bug thread is a combination of bugs from the 2.0+ testing version, and the 1+ beta versions you've been using. Please notify me of any bugs you've been dealing with and I'll list them here to get addressed.
If you'd like to bug-hunt on the testing versions, here are the sites:
http://cascoly-images.com/symbiotest/ (http://cascoly-images.com/symbiotest/)
www.9livesillustrations.com/arctium/ (http://www.9livesillustrations.com/arctium/)
http://tulip.kerioak.com/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/)
http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/ (http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/)
http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/ (http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/)
http://symbiostock.glennspecht.com/wp/ (http://symbiostock.glennspecht.com/wp/)
http://www.photosyouneed.com/ (http://www.photosyouneed.com/)
http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/wp-admin/themes.php (http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/wp-admin/themes.php)
Here is a nice update:
This finishes all of the "features" I had to get running for this release. From here on its just bug fixes.
Some things:
- Your site updates your info every hour, and fetches everyone else's symbiocards every hour. Its an easy non-consuming task. This means the whole network will never be more than an hour old!
- Every day your site spiders your friend's network, and populates an extended directory. This could go further than friends-of-friends...instead could go to friends-of-friends-of-friends...but mostly we just wanted to get a working example of it and keep it simple while the network is still small. In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory. Please keep in mind this feature benefits more than human browsing - its in fact a legitimate and non-spammy backlink directory.
- You can initiate a network scan in your marketing tab. Its fun.
- Networks who have no results for a given keyword do not show up for the party on the results page. Keeps things simple and non-distracting.
]See the new extended network page. This is an example, but could easily contain hundreds of authors:
See the new extended network page. This is an example, but could easily contain hundreds of authors:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network-directory/)
Here is the more informative "my network" page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network/)
And here is your author page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/author/leo-blanchette/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/author/leo-blanchette/)
Also more updates, for those who may not have been following until how:- There are now network widgets to show your network associates.
- There are widgets for "latest images" and "featured images" sliders.
- Your network management admin is far far improved.
- Related images are now populated using a special plugin (developed from Symbiostock's forum activity in wp.org)
Plus there must be more stuff that I am not remembering :D.
But its getting good now.
From here on its just bugs and tweaking. I think we have all the functionality needed, except for a few requests cascoly made for keyword lists and such...
Thanks for testing guys. Big thanks to everyone. I think we're within a few days or so of releasing this officially. Go ahead and bug me with more bugs.
BUGS TO STOMP
Loading old version of jquery, and this hurt people's feelings (and plugins). Fixed
People don't like being CC'd on every message to their friends. Consolidated that.
Search is tweaked. Tweak it back to working order.
Verify that search results cannot generate network errors.
Avatars messed up / page messed up on Tinny's site (Searching animals) must find out what causes this.
Image processing is generating errors due to extensions not being found properly.
IPTC Library is going Nazi on the validation of date-formats. Must remove the over-validation to retain IPTC.
Search looks for separate keywords but not keyword combinations. Fix that.
Networks with no results should be skipped...
Some networks are searched twice. http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/search-images/flowers/ (http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/search-images/flowers/)
Fix the datasheet bug where re-saving messes up permalink. Plus make it utilize the minipic preview
activating the theme causes a wp-chron job to run...needs/time consuming. Disable that.
Make it so that users cannot accidentally break the watermark by defaulting to the original watermark when paths are wrong.
Users are requesting a "have you read the terms" and "agreed to license" checkbox. Put that in before release.
Version 3.0 - My footer was a dark background, now it's light grey and some text is barely readable.
Version 3.0 - error messages related to image processing or publishing (possibly due to datasheet integration)
Ensure author page doesn't use email addresses in URL due to users not supplying enough info
Verify that adding network members in Chrome browser (either upload or entered) works properly
Crucial (and strange) / rare email bug found on Cidepix website. Solve so it doesn't haunt random people.
Default NA setting needed for releases, instead of "yes" or something.
Set up heavier validation and some code stripping on Symbiocards to make sure they can't do anything bad. :D
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Uploads work nicely
Searches work and are much faster than in V1
Sales work
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Searches - if I search for animals from tulip.kerioak I can see the logo/avatar for Leo's but no one elses
if I search for animals from Leo's site I can all the logo's/avatars when network images come up
Symbio cards - how do they update? I changed the picture and number of images on mine and it shows correctly on my site but not on anyone elses
In my ladybird Symbiostock Networking page - if I click on the "a"'s I get a page not found - is this correct?
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For anyone bug hunting on my tulip.kerioak.com testing site I have made the site as realistic as I can , you just cannot buy images (although if you insist at the prices I have put them at I am always willing to make an exception :) )
I would still like to see
time limited downloads
A database type page of images licenced (date, image, price/size, email address etc plus if we get extended licences then type of licence as well)
Thanks for all your work on this Leo
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Search:
When I search for white background, then images with "white" and "background" as separate keywords are found, but no image with "white background" as single keyword.
Cart:
Not bug maybe, but I think that "Pay Now" button could be inactive, when cart is empty :)
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I noticed that the footer background is white now. I don't recall if there is a setting to change that.
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Keep them coming guys. I'll be updating the list to the original post soon. Right now I'm working on a few of the new features in the meantime.
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ABOUT http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/?s=animal&post_type=image (http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/?s=animal&post_type=image)
1. ERRORS below happened after the SITE SEARCH because of manually entered network sites
After I uploaded some symbiocards it works ok
BUT ...
2. no results at my site = network results showing up which shouldn't work this way or should be option to choose
3. I think symbiocard.csv should have the nickname in the file name like symbiocard-amanda.csv
4. SY alows to upload the same card several times
5. +1 for option to set how many results the SEARCH is showing for the symbiote, above the other networkers
Results for "Sky"
Results:
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 48: parser error : Entity 'raquo' not defined in /symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 799
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Imagerion stock images » in /symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 799
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When I try to do the update from the Themes menu I get the following:
The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
Return to Themes page
I am trying to update to 2.1.4. from 2.1.3.
David
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I got that too. Try to toggle your theme with another one (DON'T DELETE unless you have a backup) and then do it. Its a problem with the update site...or how they run the system locally. Not necessarily me :D. After you toggle then try the update.
@plrang
Noted on all that stuff. Search is the last thing I will be addressing. I revamped it and there are a few things different on it...I just have to update other functions to work with it. Hence your errors.
Gonna list all your bug reports now - thanks a lot.
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For anyone bug hunting on my tulip.kerioak.com testing site I have made the site as realistic as I can , you just cannot buy images (although if you insist at the prices I have put them at I am always willing to make an exception :) )
Great job setting up that pretend site. Its really awesome to experiment with. Very helpful thanks.
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Boy this was a long day -
There's a bunch of new widgets. Feel free to bug test those as well.
Over and out.
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I have added some of the new widgets to my front page - - must remember to put the "skull" further down my network list as it gives me the shivers every time I see it ;D
(testing site tulip.kerioak.com)
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I have been testing 2.1.5, and am unable to process any images. They appear to upload correctly, but just disappear after they are processed.
Leo: I downloaded your cvs file and successful installed it into the network. I like your author page, but I am not sure how to create one for my site. I created a page titled "Author", but it doesn't really have a format like yours. I added widgets to the "Author" section of Widgets, but again not sure that is what I am suppose to be doing.
That is all for tonight.
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Hi David
You create/edit the author page in the "Users - Profile" section of wordpress
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Leo - I know you said to expect a few emails but when I update (have gone to 2.4 and 2.5 this morning) both generated ten identical emails - I received one to tell me that ajotte had upgraded.
Are all our network members receiving emails to say when we have upgraded and we are receiving CC's of each of those?
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And I received only one email that you had upgraded, but five identical emails that I had upgraded :)
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I just received two mails, saying that I added myself on my test-site photosyouneed.com (what I didn't do ;) )
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And this is what I see in the wordpress update area: You have version v2.1.5 installed. Update to 2.1.5. :)
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2.1.5 - uploading and processing as expected, no problems
Could everyone testing this add some identical keywords to at least one image - say blue, sky or something so we can see how it looks with a search where everyone comes up, at the moment there are not enough images/keywords to test this?
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jsfoto; I see the same thing on the wordpress update area. However I am unable to process any images after they upload. They just disappear from the process screen.
I received a bunch of emails this morning, many look like repeats but I have not gone thru them yet. I also had a bunch in my spam filter, Will keep you posted.
David
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Tinny, I updated 4 of my images to include key words; sky, blue.
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Thanks David - it is starting to fill up more - http://tulip.kerioak.com/?s=blue+sky&post_type=image (http://tulip.kerioak.com/?s=blue+sky&post_type=image)
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Haven't had my quota of coffee yet so excuse the dumb question.
Tinny; thanks for the instructions. I have updated the user profile, but am unsure what the next step is. I have included widgets in the Author page of the widgets under appearance. I have created an Author page and published it. But nothing appears on the Author page when I view it. I feel like I am missing something.
Thanks.
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I added blue sky too. I guess it's a good idea to use these two words for testing ...
And please note: I don't have real stock photos on my test site, but only cheesy test photos ;D
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Hi David
Forget about creating an Author page - delete it (for the purposes of this networking exercise).
Leo has set it up so that if we fill in the information in our profiles and save it, it automatically creates an author page. Now go to the Symbiostock networking page and fill that in with the others who are using V2 (there is a list in post 34 of this page http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-development-area/symbiostock-version-2-0-previews/25/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-development-area/symbiostock-version-2-0-previews/25/)) and either copy and paste them in or go to the sites and collect their symbiocards which can be found under any of the images and upload them. If you type in the addresses then click on the box underneath the network section (update symbiocards) and save it at the bottom of the page along with the two check boxes there.
I think I have this right, if not no doubt someone will correct me :D
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Thanks Tinny. I deleted my existing Author page. I updated my profile and save it. I updated the network page with the cards from the web pages of the test users. That works really nice.
However I still do not see an Author page. Not sure what I am doing wrong at this point.
Leo: two of the links in the network page are repeated. See attached. When I delete the duplicate and save the information the duplicates just come back. When I delete the duplicates and the originals and save, only the original remains.
PS: I really like the new speed and feel of this version.
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And I would like to apologize in advance to those testers that received a stack of emails from me about being add to my network. I just got copies and there are at 25 in my in box.
David
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Question: I am not ready to upload this new version, I will let you guys hash out the bugs first. But when it is ready for general consumption, am I going to be able to update my theme exactly like I have in the past? And will the Clean Theme child remain as it is, with all of my CSS updates.
Or will I have to start from scratch and redo all the styling?
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typing in the sites for networking works ok now too (mostly)
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2.1.5 - uploading and processing as expected, no problems
Could everyone testing this add some identical keywords to at least one image - say blue, sky or something so we can see how it looks with a search where everyone comes up, at the moment there are not enough images/keywords to test this?
other good ones I've found already are: nature, travel, animal -- see http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp (http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp) (but remember this, for now, is a collected db, not automatically updated)
that site also uses the 'old' symbiocard - i'll be fixing it to use the new ones shortly
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Question: I am not ready to upload this new version, I will let you guys hash out the bugs first. But when it is ready for general consumption, am I going to be able to update my theme exactly like I have in the past? And will the Clean Theme child remain as it is, with all of my CSS updates.
Or will I have to start from scratch and redo all the styling?
I'm pretty sure styling will be unaffected. Clean-theme will probably be current with the new theme, so don't worry there. Amanda is testing so I'm sure she is updating it. We are probably not far from releasing it.
Thanks for the bug reports guys. I'll keep working on them until everything is running smoothly.
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2.1.5 - uploading and processing as expected, no problems
Could everyone testing this add some identical keywords to at least one image - say blue, sky or something so we can see how it looks with a search where everyone comes up, at the moment there are not enough images/keywords to test this?
other good ones I've found already are: nature, travel, animal -- see [url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp[/url] ([url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp[/url]) (but remember this, for now, is a collected db, not automatically updated)
that site also uses the 'old' symbiocard - i'll be fixing it to use the new ones shortly
This is very impressive. Your making a directory! At some point you should go to www.themeforest.com (http://www.themeforest.com) and get a template to wrap around all of your output.
Forgive me if I missed anything, but if you want me to make any more data export-able (like the image list) please let me know. Its not hard at all.
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And I would like to apologize in advance to those testers that received a stack of emails from me about being add to my network. I just got copies and there are at 25 in my in box.
David
No - you get CC'd with every communication your site makes. That way your site is not talking without your knowledge. I get the impression people will not like that format, so what I'm going to do is make your site send you an email: "These people were contacted" that way its less redundant and its confined to one communication.
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Cascoly, just a little FYI - you have access to everyone's feeds in your network. Actually you have access to everyones feeds...outside of your network :D
There is no doubt a plugin out there that will allow you to assimilate their feeds and automatically publish them to posts without your having to maintain it.
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THE BUG
sites typed in manually appear on the list, but I suppoese they generate search errors & they can't be removed
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Thanks. I'm simplifying it right now, so hopefully this will be settled by next upload tonight
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If fixed it would add maybe sites not on v2 to the search results - more keywords
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THE BUG
sites typed in manually appear on the list, but I suppoese they generate search errors & they can't be removed
How are you deleting them - removing the names or clicking on the tiny " - " after the box at the end of the line which I would guess is the best way of getting rid of any you do not want and then updating ?
(this is guesswork)
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Leo - the emails. I think part of the problem is they all look identical, it is not until you open up the full headers and read though all the details that you see who they have been sent to and see they are not all duplicates
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I clicked the MINUS - they get back after saving, also tried to make them em pty - same no result
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Hey guys,
I'm simplifying that system and adding icons (instead of text) so it should look prettier and also be sort-able (not that you want to play favorites or anything...)
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I still have the question about the author page. I have updated all the information, but don't know where to go next.
Thanks.
David.
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Forgive me if I missed anything, but if you want me to make any more data export-able (like the image list) please let me know. Its not hard at all.
the other 2 csv's are the ones I've sent you for tags.csv and searchlog.csv
I can resend that if they've been buried in other msgs
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Yeah please do that. Nothing personal but I'm not the best multitasker and I get lost in emails easy. I'll save to folder immediately when you send.
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Leo, I think the .animal"search bug results was because members had not all updzted their symbikcards? I have rearranged the order and think there is onlu one line now without a name/link in it
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I have updated to 2.1.6 and have uploaded 7 images. Only three were successfully processed. No error messages, so not sure what happened.
Looks like the linked sites are working now. No duplicates. I added two without problems. I like the new buttons.
I found my author page at : http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/author/quailrunphotoscableone-net/ (http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/author/quailrunphotoscableone-net/)
But it does not appear as one of my pages. Is there a secret to having it appear as the author page in the list?
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I'll be checking into your upload problems tomorrow. Thanks for testing!
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Just a quick FYI I've started to build the Symbiocard harvester for that extended marketing - what this whole 2.0 version is about! Every function/feature I worked on built up to this simple harvester.
This is not the "hub site" stuff...its a simple way for websites to promote eachother many-hops away.
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I have updated to 2.1.6 and have uploaded 7 images. Only three were successfully processed. No error messages, so not sure what happened.
Looks like the linked sites are working now. No duplicates. I added two without problems. I like the new buttons.
I found my author page at : [url]http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/author/quailrunphotoscableone-net/[/url] ([url]http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/author/quailrunphotoscableone-net/[/url])
But it does not appear as one of my pages. Is there a secret to having it appear as the author page in the list?
PS - that is very strange. Your author page should only have ONE face... I should see whats causing that.
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Question: I am not ready to upload this new version, I will let you guys hash out the bugs first. But when it is ready for general consumption, am I going to be able to update my theme exactly like I have in the past? And will the Clean Theme child remain as it is, with all of my CSS updates.
Or will I have to start from scratch and redo all the styling?
I'm pretty sure styling will be unaffected. Clean-theme will probably be current with the new theme, so don't worry there. Amanda is testing so I'm sure she is updating it. We are probably not far from releasing it.
Thanks for the bug reports guys. I'll keep working on them until everything is running smoothly.
Thanks Leo. I am anxiously awaiting the new version. Sounds like it wont be long!
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tulip.kerioak.com
V 2.1.6 - uploaded 21 pictures and processed fine (so much easier when you don't have to add SEO or change titles and descriptions).
There is a problem with the network list though. I think you may have played with it during the night (my night) ? as names were in a different order.
Rather than try and explain I will show some screenshots of the names I have in the network and how they appear in my profile
1. (http://kerioak.com/TP/st1.jpg)
2. (http://kerioak.com/TP/st2.jpg)
3. (http://kerioak.com/TP/st3.jpg)
One extra thing I think this does show is how few of us are likely to use photos of ourselves :)
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Looks like the image processing has to do with how much meta data in embedded in the image. I successfully updated 5 images this morning, they had all the meta data filled out. The ones last night had little or no metadata.
My understanding was the images without metadata automatically go to draft?
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Looks like the image processing has to do with how much meta data in embedded in the image. I successfully updated 5 images this morning, they had all the meta data filled out. The ones last night had little or no metadata.
My understanding was the images without metadata automatically go to draft?
that's what was stated originally but it's never been the case - anything can be published
also, I've been trying to track down why some images WITH metadata don't get read by sym and some agencies -- so far the only thing these images have in common is they were not taken in a camera - ie, were created starting w a blank file in ps, so all the camera data is missing. that shouldn't matter for title, etc yet somehow it dies, but notconsistently
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Search:
When I search for white background, then images with "white" and "background" as separate keywords are found, but no image with "white background" as single keyword.
Cart:
Not bug maybe, but I think that "Pay Now" button could be inactive, when cart is empty :)
I see this too on my own site. I have several images from Hilton Head South Carolina. If I search for "Hilton Head" I get zero results. But if I search for Hilton, or Head, I get the results I am looking for. I have "Hilton Head" as a single key phrase in my iptc data.
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I have updated my linked sites. I have set my author page to display both detail and simple widgets. There appear in the correct order. I only have 5 so I don't know if that makes a difference.
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After doing the Link Site update, I checked my inbox and spam holding.
1. I discovered that my ISP host automatically holds any email that has the same from and to address. No way around that. So I have to check my spam folder daily. Don't know what we can do about that.
2. I have attached a screen shot of my inbox. As you can see I got a total of 15 emails concerning the update. 5 were copies of notifications to my Network members, 10 were virtually all the same.
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After doing the Link Site update, I checked my inbox and spam holding.
1. I discovered that my ISP host automatically holds any email that has the same from and to address. No way around that. So I have to check my spam folder daily. Don't know what we can do about that.
2. I have attached a screen shot of my inbox. As you can see I got a total of 15 emails concerning the update. 5 were copies of notifications to my Network members, 10 were virtually all the same.
I've cleaned up how many mails you get - your site will email you once per event.
Also very important.
Please dropbox me the files that make your site crash/do not get processed so I can see exactly what is happening. Unless I can duplicate your problem I cannot fix it.
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tulip.kerioak.com
V 2.1.6 - uploaded 21 pictures and processed fine (so much easier when you don't have to add SEO or change titles and descriptions).
There is a problem with the network list though. I think you may have played with it during the night (my night) ? as names were in a different order.
Rather than try and explain I will show some screenshots of the names I have in the network and how they appear in my profile
1. ([url]http://kerioak.com/TP/st1.jpg[/url])
2. ([url]http://kerioak.com/TP/st2.jpg[/url])
3. ([url]http://kerioak.com/TP/st3.jpg[/url])
One extra thing I think this does show is how few of us are likely to use photos of ourselves :)
It may have shuffled a bit, but you may notice some up/down icons? I put in the feature (because of your reminding me :D ) to be able to sort the order at which your network is displayed. Just click them up and down and save.
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Leo; I sent your a dropbox share. There are 6 images and two screen captures. All images uploaded but only 4 processed to draft. The screen captures are showing the imaged to be processed and which ones were actually processed. Let me know if you need anything else.
David
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Thanks very grateful for that. Getting now.
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Great! Same thing happened to me and I found the problem. Will fix today.
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I still have the question about the author page. I have updated all the information, but don't know where to go next.
Thanks.
David.
If you check your little "badge" under your images, the dropdown should take you to the author page.
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Leo; got it thanks. I had not noticed that before.
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upload, process, then edit several slides, setting category to india
try to publish - get
Warning: unpack() [function.unpack]: Type A: not enough input, need 1, have 0 in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/IPTC.php on line 263
Warning: unpack() [function.unpack]: Type A: not enough input, need 1, have 0 in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/IPTC.php on line 263
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/IPTC.php:263) in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876
but they are still published
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edit 1 image -- mangos, turemeric
set food, india as categories, publish -- looks ok, but when i go to image page
http://cascoly-images.com/symbiotest/image/mangos-turmeric-and-green-bananas/ (http://cascoly-images.com/symbiotest/image/mangos-turmeric-and-green-bananas/)
under cascoly / author avatar it says:
Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Offset not contained in string in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/symbiostock_author_box.php on line 69
similar for other published images
on processing
Invalid Date - must be YYYY-MM-DD format
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upload date doesnt have time - so when i uploaded last night at 1 am, then today, the earlier ones sho up first in my drafts
also, if i sort by upload date, latest first, then sort by title, it shows me title, sorted by EARLIEST upload date (i was trying to find most recent items with no title)
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also, all thumbnails in list of image are shown as vertical, which sometimes makes it diff to know the picture
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Here is a nice update:
This finishes all of the "features" I had to get running for this release. From here on its just bug fixes.
Some things:
- Your site updates your info every hour, and fetches everyone else's symbiocards every hour. Its an easy non-consuming task. This means the whole network will never be more than an hour old!
- Every day your site spiders your friend's network, and populates an extended directory. This could go further than friends-of-friends...instead could go to friends-of-friends-of-friends...but mostly we just wanted to get a working example of it and keep it simple while the network is still small. In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory. Please keep in mind this feature benefits more than human browsing - its in fact a legitimate and non-spammy backlink directory.
- You can initiate a network scan in your marketing tab. Its fun.
- Networks who have no results for a given keyword do not show up for the party on the results page. Keeps things simple and non-distracting.
See the new extended network page. This is an example, but could easily contain hundreds of authors:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network-directory/)
Here is the more informative "my network" page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network/)
And here is your author page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/author/leo-blanchette/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/author/leo-blanchette/)
Also more updates, for those who may not have been following until how:- There are now network widgets to show your network associates.
- There are widgets for "latest images" and "featured images" sliders.
- Your network management admin is far far improved.
- Related images are now populated using a special plugin (developed from Symbiostock's forum activity in wp.org)
Plus there must be more stuff that I am not remembering :D.
But its getting good now.
From here on its just bugs and tweaking. I think we have all the functionality needed, except for a few requests cascoly made for keyword lists and such...
Thanks for testing guys. Big thanks to everyone. I think we're within a few days or so of releasing this officially. Go ahead and bug me with more bugs.
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might wanna update those localhost links Leo ;)
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50 tabs open, I guess thats what happens.
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Looking really good.
I did notice a problem with the network list. The linked sites on the control page versus what is displayed under the images. Two of my links are repeated under the images.
See attached.
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Thank you! Thats really weird. What happens if you re-save them out of curiosity? I know its not a fix...just curious.
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No change, same duplicate links.
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Leo; thanks for fixing the email notification. Looks really good now.
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You threw me a curve ball! Opening up the file in bridge (bridge is very dependable) I found two of them (the two that were crashing) did not have title or description - and a post will not be created (ie, fail) if if two of those are lacking.
I had this covered before...I don't know why it stopped filling in generic information... oh well. I'll fix it. Glad we got through that one!
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Leo, this is old news, but did you see Paul Melcher's blog on the 8th?
http://blog.melchersystem.com/2013/05/08/crowd-managed-photo-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crowd-managed-photo-agency (http://blog.melchersystem.com/2013/05/08/crowd-managed-photo-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crowd-managed-photo-agency)
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I had not finish with bridge before I uploaded that group of photos, so it was a mixed bag. Glad you found the issue.
I have been testing but have not found any problems other then those you already know about.
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Leo, this is old news, but did you see Paul Melcher's blog on the 8th?
[url]http://blog.melchersystem.com/2013/05/08/crowd-managed-photo-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crowd-managed-photo-agency[/url] ([url]http://blog.melchersystem.com/2013/05/08/crowd-managed-photo-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crowd-managed-photo-agency[/url])
Yeah, I saw that a while ago - I love comparison here:
I remember reading, a few years back, about the largest know living organism in the world. Located under the Oregon forest, it is a 2,200 year old fungus whose fruits, or otherwise known as mushrooms, peek out here and there. Probably because of its un appealing nature, fungi are poorly known and it is estimated that millions of yet unclassified species exist. What has been recently discovered is that they seem to operate as a network inside the forest, communicating information from trees to trees via the moist soil,somewhat informing and organizing the environment it feeds upon
No, we are not turning into botanists here, although it is also a fascinating subject. Rather, it is the first thought that sprung when I discovered Symbiostock: An underground, little known network of related organisms thriving thanks to symbiosis.
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In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory.
We could test "six degrees of separation" theory :)
Bug:
Now, after updating, Wordpress says "You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8."
and in themes tab: " View version 2.1.8 details or update now.".
And questions:
How to show similar images under image now?
I tried to put "Related Posts by Taxonomy" widget, but with no success :)
I think that my bio and photo under every image is too much :)
Maybe an option?
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In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory.
We could test "six degrees of separation" theory :)
Bug:
Now, after updating, Wordpress says "You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8."
and in themes tab: " View version 2.1.8 details or update now.".
And questions:
How to show similar images under image now?
I tried to put "Related Posts by Taxonomy" widget, but with no success :)
I think that my bio and photo under every image is too much :)
Maybe an option?
How to show similar images under image now?
The same widget as before (symbiostock related images)
I think that my bio and photo under every image is too much :)
With this release I put tons and tons and tons of work into getting the artist recognized. Trying to make them as important as the product visually...but I also understand everyone has different styles so after this release I can make it a point to start adding "options" to turn stuff off and on. I know that won't be the only "gimme an option" request. edit - this is just to help customers appreciate the work more by seeing the artist.
Now, after updating, Wordpress says "You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8."
I'm actually using a provided script / service for that. I noticed that too. Its a silly thing, but I'm not going to mess with it.
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V 2.1.8 tulip.kerioak.com
I like that only those members with images available show up, makes the page much neater.
Network list - still the same problem as shown in my screenshots above, even though David and Cascoly only appear once in my list (and yes I did notice and use the up/down buttons :) ) They still appear twice in the network friends list in the public pages.
The "wizzy" results in a search, I think they wizz by a little too fast, there is not time to look at them all properly before they disappear, I wonder if it would be better to leave the arrows there and let clients click on them themselves or make the much slower?
I would still like to see an option for more images to show up from the original site - or maybe one of the wizzy buttons there as well so they all match?
When first updating the theme you see a page with
/><!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="ie8 wp-toolbar" lang="en-US">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 8) ]><!-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="wp-toolbar" lang="en-US">
<!--<![endif]-->
<head>
It is easily passed by returning but might confuse some people
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Great. I'm burning through that list tonight. Do mind if I upload versions in your site tonight? I don't know how you made the problem so I have to work on it directly.
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When first updating the theme you see a page with
/><!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html xmlns="[url]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/url]" class="ie8 wp-toolbar" lang="en-US">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 8) ]><!-->
<html xmlns="[url]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/url]" class="wp-toolbar" lang="en-US">
<!--<![endif]-->
<head>
It is easily passed by returning but might confuse some people
I'm pretty sure I fixed that. It has to do with the network scanner firing up as soon as theme is installed. Now it waits till an hour later.
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How to show similar images under image now?
The same widget as before (symbiostock related images)
But... I don't have it :)
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How to show similar images under image now?
The same widget as before (symbiostock related images)
But... I don't have it :)
Thats really wierd. I'll go look.
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Hi Leo - if you meant playing with mine - feel free, I will stay away from it until you have finished so just let me know then I will try some uploads etc
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I don't have the similar images button either
Model/Property releases - these are going to be somewhat time consuming to go though and edit individually for all the images already listed, is there a way of selecting them in the "all images" area and add it there - please?
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And issue with linked sites list:
Click "+' and paste "www.photosyouneed.com" (without http:// ), or anything, that is not valid site address, then save. New item disappears, but here:
http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/symbiostock-network/ (http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/symbiostock-network/)
is
"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/phodopus/domains/ajotte.com/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/symbiostock_author_box.php on line 24"
Now go to network tab again, do nothing but save, and warning disappears.
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How to show similar images under image now?
The same widget as before (symbiostock related images)
But... I don't have it :)
Thanks for catching that. Its back now. It works awesome. (Somehow in my 25-hour-a-day schedule of working on this thing I dropped it and never noticed it)
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You guys both have related images widget back to play with
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Thanks, it works "out of the box" now, but has
"A: Run the "related images" update in Author Options, located at bottom of page."
in description :)
And it shows 6 related images now, was 12...
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Thanks, it works "out of the box" now, but has
"A: Run the "related images" update in Author Options, located at bottom of page."
in description :)
And it shows 6 related images now, was 12...
Your a great bug hunter. Let me get to those things right now! Just updated your site again btw.
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I just received two mails:
[symbiostock_upgrade] http://tulip.kerioak.com (http://tulip.kerioak.com) (Christine) has upgraded: v2.1.9
[symbiostock_upgrade] http://tulip.kerioak.com (http://tulip.kerioak.com) (Christine) has upgraded: v2.2.0
And this is what I see on my site:
You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8. :)
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And this is what I see on my site:
You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8. :)
So are you going to upgrade from v2.1.8 to v2.1.8? I disclaim myself - not my script. Its a service I'm using.
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I still cannot find the similar images button - have you moved it somewhere else?
Your network directory page looks great, mine looks a mess (http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/) ) would this be because I have edited my child theme?
Edited to add It was - I have edited theme a little and that section looks much better
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Its a widget.
What I do when I can't find something is push ctrl-f on my browser. Then type... type "similar" in the widgets area...you should find it.
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sorry, forgot I had to re-add the widget, was looking for the button that created them :)
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And this is what I see on my site:
You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8. :)
So are you going to upgrade from v2.1.8 to v2.1.8? I disclaim myself - not my script. Its a service I'm using.
I get this kind of message (You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8.) since the beginning of tests. Somehow the script doesn't realize that the theme is up to date.
But I wonder why I can't get version 2.1.9 and 2.2.0 which was installed by Chrisitine (at least this is what the automated mails say)
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And this is what I see on my site:
You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8. :)
So are you going to upgrade from v2.1.8 to v2.1.8? I disclaim myself - not my script. Its a service I'm using.
I get this kind of message (You have version v2.1.8 installed. Update to 2.1.8.) since the beginning of tests. Somehow the script doesn't realize that the theme is up to date.
But I wonder why I can't get version 2.1.9 and 2.2.0 which was installed by Chrisitine (at least this is what the automated mails say)
In a few minutes hopefully! I installed theirs while I was experimenting
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1.3.7 - weird problem
after processing even a single image no preview is created (minipic is ok)
PUBLISHING gives of ocurse
failed to copy //symbiostock_rf/990.jpg...
site: http://stock.imagerion.com (http://stock.imagerion.com)
can't work on my regular site :-/
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I don't see many issues on the older version at this time - what is your hosting? Have you changed your server memory settings?
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It's the same as fotostocki.pl/symbiotest - I made you an admin acc. and the pass is the same, if you could take a look
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Can you PM me the account name/pass thanks
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2.2.0 is now up. I've been working my way through quite a few bugs. Let me know how it goes for you.
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I know your excited to say "Hey, there's an alert that pops up when I click a button" yes I'm troubleshooting that area right now. Also you will notice some problems with search...it has to hurt to heal... :D
I had to overhaul search, and I'm finally getting things straight with it. Thanks for your patience.
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V. 2.2.0
Leo, if I do a search on your site I see at the bottom of the page the footer AND the Extended network directory link.
Is this a widget (as I cannot find it) as I do not have either the footer or the directory link at the base of my search pages. I have disabled my child theme in case that was causing the problem but still no footer or directory link
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In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory.
We could test "six degrees of separation" theory :)
actually that's one of the things that will be 'easy ' to do once we get going -- there are some great network graphing apps out there that can do things like:
http://moviegalaxies.com/movies/513-The-Lord-of-the-Rings:-The-Return-of-the-King (http://moviegalaxies.com/movies/513-The-Lord-of-the-Rings:-The-Return-of-the-King) (this doesn't seem to work with IE10 tho)
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I noticed that the "Like this:" button is grayed out again and shows loading but never finishes. It was working in earlier testing.
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v2.2.0
i had previously purposely added duplicates in my network list and they were accepted. updating to new theme removed them, but then it let me put them back in. still lets me enter my own site as a network site
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appearances comment -- the red X on the networks list realy jumps out ,making it look like those are disabled or have some sort of error -- maybe change to a lighter 'delete' label??
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i clicked updated pub network but nothing seemed to change -- ALL my network links still say they;'re running v2.1.1 or earlier; also i had entered new site avatar & site logo, but they dont show up in my list, though they are correct in the slots below (i'm linking directly to my images from my live account) the new card.csv however has the proper info in it (still would like to remove the symbiostock_ prefix on all those names! it's hard to read a card offline
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under symbiostock_network folder, there are folders for all the other network sites (extra char removed) butr all are empty, as is the seeds folder -- is there supposed to besomething there?
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if i'm editing image drafts, at the end of the edit it goes back to showing me all images - should still be showing only draft
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in media lib, shows 2 images - how do we know which is the mini?
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v2.2.0
images that i set as featured on the image page or from lib do not show up in sym featured category
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search 'sport' from my image categories list
ater showing grsphoto slider, get errors:
Warning: stripos() [function.stripos]: needle is not a string or an integer in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-includes/functions.php on line 658
Warning: stripos() [function.stripos]: needle is not a string or an integer in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-includes/functions.php on line 661
Warning: stripos() [function.stripos]: needle is not a string or an integer in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-includes/functions.php on line 658
Warning: stripos() [function.stripos]: needle is not a string or an integer in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-includes/functions.php on line 661
the next site in my network list is http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium, (http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium,) so error may be coming from there
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when search returns 'no results' doesnt show anything from networked sites either, which takes away any advantage of using complementary networked sites
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track elapsed time on dearches for logging - will help find poor servers or hosts
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I noticed that the "Like this:" button is grayed out again and shows loading but never finishes. It was working in earlier testing.
I have a solution! Remove the Like button! :D
Don't ask me to fix your car...
"Leo, its getting good mileage again, but now when I push this new 'get better mileage button' my children eject through the roof and land in the street! Is that supposed to happen?"
"Yes, to get better mileage your car needs less weight, and the children are noisy anyway...so I figured knock off two birds with one stone. If you like I can remove that feature..."
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Hi leo, the single image pages have , I think , an extre box underneath. Image Categories and Categories
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I presumed to remove your extra widget. The catagories widget you added is not related to SS. The cats shown are hardwired. You can't remove it unless the image has no categories.
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Leo, try this:
Go to
http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/?s=nature&submit=Search&post_type=image (http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/?s=nature&submit=Search&post_type=image)
scroll down and click on 2 or next under grsphoto Network results. It's weird :)
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You mean how it disappears? Fixed it.
On that note, I've also worked in a timeout for people's networks. If they timeout, they are fetched after page load. Lighting fast page-load this time.
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I wrote very very simple cache for xml results fetched from network sites. Now I am testing it on my both Symbio sites. Just few lines in function get_remote_xml and symbiostock_xml_cache folder in root dir :)
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If you had an implementation for that I'd be grateful.
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Emailed
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v2.2.0
had 45 images from last night, but the images.csv file only exported 25
published another 30 and still exported the same 25-- then guessed i might have to click that box at the bottom of the settings page
the reprocess to create the image.csv file needs to be more prominent - some people may never turn it on, and many will forget to update it - since it seems to be quick, why not do it automatically when someone logs out, or on a weekly basis if they stay logged in?
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Emailed
It works...heavenly. Wow. Alls I had to change was the server path to the wordpress-functional one. Good job!
Gonna combine this with the ajax implementation I'm doing and this officially ends slow load times. WOW.
Side note I really needed the wind back in my sails. This did it. :D
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v2.2.0
had 45 images from last night, but the images.csv file only exported 25
published another 30 and still exported the same 25-- then guessed i might have to click that box at the bottom of the settings page
the reprocess to create the image.csv file needs to be more prominent - some people may never turn it on, and many will forget to update it - since it seems to be quick, why not do it automatically when someone logs out, or on a weekly basis if they stay logged in?
Are you talking about the []Update symbiocards and []update public network info checkboxes?
I could pretty-fy them a bit more...make them stand out. Also symbiocards refresh on an hourly basis on each site (so network never gets dated) and image listings update daily.
Unless I don't follow...let me know if I'm confused.
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the reprocess to create the image.csv file needs to be more prominent - some people may never turn it on, and many will forget to update it - since it seems to be quick, why not do it automatically when someone logs out, or on a weekly basis if they stay logged in?
Are you talking about the []Update symbiocards and []update public network info checkboxes?
I could pretty-fy them a bit more...make them stand out. Also symbiocards refresh on an hourly basis on each site (so network never gets dated) and image listings update daily.
ok, -- I upl'd late last night, so figured they'd have been processed, but every 24 hrs is fine; esp'ly w the ability to force an update
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The images one updates once a day instead of multiple times simply because if someone with a HUGE portfolio (3000, 4000, 10,000) updated hourly it would punish their server. But you can force it as you say. Just need prettier buttons then?
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The images one updates once a day instead of multiple times simply because if someone with a HUGE portfolio (3000, 4000, 10,000) updated hourly it would punish their server. But you can force it as you say. Just need prettier buttons then?
not really - i'd forgotten it was automatic, so put it very low on your list
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THANK YOU AJT.
AJT contributed a caching method. SPEED.
Besides that, I put in a little method that speeds up page load and fetches laggy people afterward. Those in turn are cached, and the next request is as fast as your website can deliver (not dependent on other requests).
This is a HUGE improvement. I had intended to put a after-load request into Symbiostock, but AJT's caching is the cherry on top. Awesome. Speed :D.
I did not get to address any network addition/subtraction/duplicate bugs. Today I focused entirely on the search speed.
This is pretty good, because Tinny had added like 10 people and it was impossible for her site to load properly. Great she discovered that limitation. Now its smooth sailing!
Continue to report bugs and again, thanks everyone.
So, the current version is 2.2.1
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Just a note. You have to toggle your theme (on/off) so it generates the caching folder. If you do not, it won't be created for the first time and you'll get errors.
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Freeking awesome. Look how fast this request is: http://www.clipartillustrations.com/?s=animal&post_type=image (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/?s=animal&post_type=image)
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Looking nice Leo! This next release should be great.
Just a thought tho - I think the <> arrows on the network search results need to be moved. Currently they overlap the images on the edge (far left and far right) but perhaps with some better spacing of results, the images could be moved in a little and the <> buttons be given their own space.
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Yeah, I think those are being worked on.
Just a little word of warning - Cascoly says sometimes the title is hijacked by the processor and replaced iwth default text even when the title exists in IPTC. Let me know if anyone experiences this. As mentioned its just bug fixes from here on.
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Just a question in IPTC -
Caption or headline - whats the diff? What does everyone use? Which takes precedence?
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One more thing - I fixed the title hijacking mistake I made. So you can process images automatically now.
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According to the little mouse-over help in Bridge, Headline is a brief synopsis of whats in the file, while Title is more like a filename.
I dont use any of this. Just use Title, Description, Keywords and copyright on the first Tab of the file information in Bridge/Photoshop, which I believe is EXIF, not IPTC. But I might be wrong about that.
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According to the little mouse-over help in Bridge, Headline is a brief synopsis of whats in the file, while Title is more like a filename.
I dont use any of this. Just use Title, Description, Keywords and copyright on the first Tab of the file information in Bridge/Photoshop, which I believe is EXIF, not IPTC. But I might be wrong about that.
All that is IPTC, EXIF appears under Camera Data in Adobe progs, and is not normally writable.
Title should really have the filename or similar, but most agencies read it for the image title. That should really go in Headline, but only PicturEngine read that as far as I know. Caption is the same as Description, and is the longer winded bit.
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Much appreciated thanks.
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This is pretty good, because Tinny had added like 10 people and it was impossible for her site to load properly. Great she discovered that limitation. Now its smooth sailing!
Is that why I did not get the Network link at the bottom of the page? I did not discover it, I saw it was different to yours and you discovered why :D
Works now - brilliant work the pair of you. Wish I could help with that sort of thing but I am embarrassed to admit that I don't have a clue what you are talking about half the time let alone how to do it.
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Just a thought.
Will we be able to omit/ban people from the extended network list on our sites if we don't like for instance the quality of the work they produce, the subjects they show?
Another thought
Might be worth recommending that the first few words of everyone's profile details are the most pertinent as they will show up in the directory before anyone clicks to open the file (ie - http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/) ) so they need to grab a clients attention
Yet another thought
Where are our clients?
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This is pretty good, because Tinny had added like 10 people and it was impossible for her site to load properly. Great she discovered that limitation. Now its smooth sailing!
Is that why I did not get the Network link at the bottom of the page? I did not discover it, I saw it was different to yours and you discovered why :D
Works now - brilliant work the pair of you. Wish I could help with that sort of thing but I am embarrassed to admit that I don't have a clue what you are talking about half the time let alone how to do it.
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Just a thought.
Will we be able to omit/ban people from the extended network list on our sites if we don't like for instance the quality of the work they produce, the subjects they show?
Another thought
Might be worth recommending that the first few words of everyone's profile details are the most pertinent as they will show up in the directory before anyone clicks to open the file (ie - [url]http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/[/url] ([url]http://tulip.kerioak.com/symbiostock-network-directory/[/url]) ) so they need to grab a clients attention
Yet another thought
Where are our clients?
Yeah, you really pushed its limits. Your site is like a funnel in this system and it had to squeeze out 10 sites to the viewer. Some of those sites were very slow relative to your server's location (or just plain slow!) and being that your site had a limited time to deliver...it just gave up. So between caching and after-requesting, its solved :D.
Yes, after things are running and more "strangers" start coming in, we will be able to put in all those "blacklist" features. For now its just time consuming details I'm not getting into yet.
I'm glad everything is working for you now!
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Just a question in IPTC -
Caption or headline - whats the diff? What does everyone use? Which takes precedence?
I use both because agencies vary in which tghey use -- there are actually FIVE options
iptc - objectname
headline
caption-abstract
xmp - title
headline
decription
one of the agencies uses iptc-caption-abstract
I've asked but never gotten an answer from any of them - I had a lot of images with all the iptc but missing the xmp-title field that came up empty - now i just fill in all
also, I've had problems with DT and sym, sporadically with images created in PS - eg a combination of 4 other images, or a composite that starts from a blank screen - it's rrepeatable when an image fails, but not predictable though, but I suspect it's looking for some camera-related info that's never set up
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it always says 'title found' in processing
if I upload with a byline it says
'stock image by steve estvanik / cascoly '
if there's no iptc byline it says
'stock image by cascoly'
so for some reason it's replacing all the titles now. this didn't happen with the version before 2.2.0 and has been consistent since
the offline version of the image is correct before and after the upload
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also, just discovered description is sometimes doubled
takes 1 desc from iptc and other from xmp -- eg,shows desc as:
Ski lift carries skiers to the high alpine mountains2
Ski lift carries skiers to the high alpine mountains 1
the first is from xmp-description, the second from iptc caption-abstract
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Yeah, you really pushed its limits. Your site is like a funnel in this system and it had to squeeze out 10 sites to the viewer. Some of those sites were very slow relative to your server's location (or just plain slow!) and being that your site had a limited time to deliver...it just gave up. So between caching and after-requesting, its solved :D.
Yes, after things are running and more "strangers" start coming in, we will be able to put in all those "blacklist" features. For now its just time consuming details I'm not getting into yet.
I'm glad everything is working for you now!
when we have the search logging csv, it should contain an elapsed time value that will help identify slow sites; it also can track where a failure occurred since it will show the last site completed - right now if there are 3 sites in a row that produce no results we don't know which was the problem
one partial solution would be to check the maxtime of the calling site first, and use that as a guide to how many additional sites are called
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If Leo wants to remove any of the network sites from links to try things out he is more than welcome - it is there to experiment with
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Thanks for the help Cascoly - just an FYI the newer version I've uploaded should not hijack your titles. Make sure your up to 2.2.2
I'm off today! But keep logging bugs. Thanks
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running 2.2.2 -- thanks - titles are coming thru fine now
but when I do a search on 'animal' I get a number of error messages
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Warning: file_put_contents(/home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/symbiostock_xml_cache/034a03c4b634b1dc4bd15727bcebeb81) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1239
Warning: file_put_contents(/home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/symbiostock_xml_cache/2330c87d8ba6daf4119c8df2576bd8ca) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1239
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running 2.2.2 -- thanks - titles are coming thru fine now
but when I do a search on 'animal' I get a number of error messages
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Warning: file_put_contents(/home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/symbiostock_xml_cache/034a03c4b634b1dc4bd15727bcebeb81) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1239
Warning: file_put_contents(/home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/symbiostock_xml_cache/2330c87d8ba6daf4119c8df2576bd8ca) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/cascolyi/public_html/symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1239
Just turn the theme on/off. It will install your cache folder. New installers will not have to worry about this - but people upgrading the test version have to toggle their theme to get it to run the installer ... which does this.
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When I go to the Symbiostock website, downloads tab, is that version that I download 2.2.2 (is that the latest)?
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Hi there! 2.2.2 is only available to an exclusive club of special people. The secret password is "symbiostock" and you have to email me with the password to get the zip if you are desiring to test it...but its dangerous and only for the elite. If you can somehow find the secret password and email me leo[at]symbiostock.com I will send the testing theme :D
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Had a thought..... Say I am off in the Amazon for 2 weeks, and my site gets hacked. The hackers are sending all sorts of spam images and messages through the network.... I can't fix it cause I am off line. Is there a way to remove it from the network?
Glenn
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Hi Leo
With V 2 if the site that is originally searched does not have any results their category list comes up (which is a good thing) and below it are the results from the network.
I think maybe the wording at the top of the category list should be changed from
No results found. Try browsing the categories. Maybe you will find some hidden gems!
To something like
No results fit your search, try browsing the categories to see if you can find the hidden gems. Or scroll down to see my network members results
For some people the network results will show up on the page but on others (no names mentioned :) who may have somewhat detailed category lists) might need to scroll down a bit further
I think it is a good idea to show the category list as this will give them information for future needs.
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Been thinking again: the network directory, at some point in the future, could there be a way for clients to "bookmark" certain sites that they are interested in so they stand out and they don't have to search through to find the ones they have seen but cannot remember where?
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Had a thought..... Say I am off in the Amazon for 2 weeks, and my site gets hacked. The hackers are sending all sorts of spam images and messages through the network.... I can't fix it cause I am off line. Is there a way to remove it from the network?
Glenn
The only way to send anything through the network is via symbiocards, other than that deleting something will remove the network's ability to link to you. Symbiocards are mobile though. Right now things are too small to matter to any serious hackers - you have to reach a certain level of popularity before you worth the trouble to write custom codes for.
If your adventuring in the amazon though you've got bigger fish to fry than worrying about websites :D
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Hi Leo
With V 2 if the site that is originally searched does not have any results their category list comes up (which is a good thing) and below it are the results from the network.
I think maybe the wording at the top of the category list should be changed from
No results found. Try browsing the categories. Maybe you will find some hidden gems!
To something like
No results fit your search, try browsing the categories to see if you can find the hidden gems. Or scroll down to see my network members results
For some people the network results will show up on the page but on others (no names mentioned :) who may have somewhat detailed category lists) might need to scroll down a bit further
I think it is a good idea to show the category list as this will give them information for future needs.
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Been thinking again: the network directory, at some point in the future, could there be a way for clients to "bookmark" certain sites that they are interested in so they stand out and they don't have to search through to find the ones they have seen but cannot remember where?
Regarding the "hidden gems" text it would be nice to have something easy and attractive...aggreable to all. Anything to give the customer the idea that their efforts will reward them.
Bookmarking - I wanted to create a special symbiostock panel under each website that acts as a navigation bar for the network. Thats a project of a whole different caliber soon, after things start moving along.
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Tomorrow is another full day of code, and possibly friday too. If you see any quirks be sure to mention them. I'm almost done! :D Thanks for all the help guys. I'm thinking by Tuesday we might just have an official launch in order.
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Somehow my symbiocard info got cleared out. If anyone else notices that problem let me know.
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Hi there! 2.2.2 is only available to an exclusive club of special people. The secret password is "symbiostock" and you have to email me with the password to get the zip if you are desiring to test it...but its dangerous and only for the elite. If you can somehow find the secret password and email me leo[at]symbiostock.com I will send the testing theme :D
Never mind, i will wait for the peon version.
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Just a small adjustment would be nice in the category view
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Leo; I saw that you fixed the Like button on the home page. Thank you. However it appears that it is still grayed out on the image page.
Not a big issue if you want to wait until post release to fix it.
David
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If your adventuring in the amazon though you've got bigger fish to fry than worrying about websites :D
Actually, the Amazon is a 2 hr bus ride away... so not that big a deal. :) But I do worry about hackers and spam, espically when I do lose internet access for days at a time.
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Hi David, I am probably wrong but I think it is greyed out because it is taking a long time to load - on home page as well
Is there any reason you want people to list your pictures on facebook for free rather than paying for them ? :)
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WP Like gives nothing to the site, so I would just remove it
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Good suggestions. I will remove it.
Thanks for the advice.
David
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Hi there! 2.2.2 is only available to an exclusive club of special people. The secret password is "symbiostock" and you have to email me with the password to get the zip if you are desiring to test it...but its dangerous and only for the elite. If you can somehow find the secret password and email me leo[at]symbiostock.com I will send the testing theme :D
Never mind, i will wait for the peon version.
I was being silly. Email me and ill send it
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Hi there! 2.2.2 is only available to an exclusive club of special people. The secret password is "symbiostock" and you have to email me with the password to get the zip if you are desiring to test it...but its dangerous and only for the elite. If you can somehow find the secret password and email me leo[at]symbiostock.com I will send the testing theme :D
Never mind, i will wait for the peon version.
I was being silly. Email me and ill send it
I know. :D As I read other threads, I see that you are still making tweaks but said the version would be ready for general consumption in a couple of days. I can just wait for that. I have been stressed, with no spare time for a couple of weeks...working full-time and taking 2 college classes that just weren't working out...I just dropped them both about 15 minutes ago, I just can't do them right now. So I will have some free time now for all of my other projects, like this one. <whew. heavy load removed from back>
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I have just loaded V2.2.2 over my V1.x.x site. It went very smoothly and no major problems were encountered.
First problem I had was similars not showing. It was fixed when I updated the plug-in for similar posts ( forgot it's real name).
The only "bug" I see is the site says there is a newer version of Symbiostock, but when I "load" the update I still am on the same version, and the update available is still showing.
My goal is to test some more in the upcoming days.
Glenn
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BUG in Symbiostock Network Scanner?
It's showing the progress, but no real changes in the network.
I deleted 3 slots and they can't go back.
I then need to use the symbiocard upload.
Although it says:
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Getting site: http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium... (http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium...)
—Success
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BUG in Symbiostock Network Scanner?
It's showing the progress, but no real changes in the network.
I deleted 3 slots and they can't go back.
I then need to use the symbiocard upload.
Although it says this:
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Getting site: [url]http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium...[/url] ([url]http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium...[/url])
—Success
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New version tonight. Yes - bugs.
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Getting closer to "official launch" here is a testing version of the 2.0+ series available to everyone, since seems pretty stable:
https://github.com/orangeman555/symbiostock/blob/master/symbiostock.zip?raw=true
For those of you already beta testing it, please download this one and re-upload it.
Very very important: You can only network with other 2+ users.
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If you want to add me, get my symbiocard here: http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiocard.csv (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiocard.csv)
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After adding your symbiocard:
Symbiocard not found at this website.
The file symbiocard.csv has been uploaded
Now it seems to be ok.
And I have new cache version, but I must do more tests in 2.2.5 :)
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So you uploaded it and it gave you two messages:
Not found...
and it 'has been uploaded'...?
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Yes, I had 5 sites. I tiried to update their symbiocards, but i saw 5 lines
"Symbiocard not found at this website."
So I deleted them all, they have 2.2.2 and I thought that maybe that's the reason.
In empty list I uploaded your symbiocard and I saw those two messages.
I am trying to duplicate this, but now it is ok.
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Let me know if you have any trouble putting more in. That probably happened because with this install I have it purge your network.
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I have your site in network. Then:
- delete it,
- save changes
- add http://www.clipartillustrations.com (http://www.clipartillustrations.com)
- save changes again and see two lines:
"Symbiocard not found at this website."
- save again and ok now.
Repeated that procedure and this time there was only one "not found" message.
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I updated to 2.2.5, but is (Scanner not fixed yet (http://www.microstockgroup.com/19390/19390/msg318828/#msg318828)) in this version?
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tulip.kerioak.com V 2.2.5
Unable to delete people from network - it automatically refills. The only way I found to remove someone was to de-activate the network and save. This gets rid of everyone, then re-activate it and reinstall your chosen network members. De-activating removes everyone.
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Symbiostock Network Directory
If this is everyone in the directory not just my own (previous) links, as I currently have only Plrang and Leo, it is somewhat untidy as everyone that was previously in it appears at least twice, is this because they were in my network members list as well as mine and not everyone has updated yet?
The button with our names/photographer/illustrator with the dropdown next to it. Is it possible for this to go directly to our author page to make it easier for use on tablets/phones
Current list of professions
Illustrator
Photographer
Developer
Artist
Marketing
Graphic Design
3D
maybe add a few more and a third option
Digital Artist
Digital Editing
I think as you roll this out you may get asked for more options, I put Lifestyle - have no idea what this actually means but sounded vague enough to cover some of the stuff I do ;D
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Version 2.2.5
Problem area Symbiocard.
Working version of 2.2.2. updated to 2.2.5
The blue + button doesn't work. Click the button but nothing happens.
This means I can not add more than 1 card to my network.
To fix the problem I have tried, that did not work.
Deleting theme
deactivating network activity
I have compared action to 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 ( I am running both) and the problem is only in 2.2.5
Glenn
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V. 2.2.5
I currently have four in my test network (adding carefully one at a time and trying to find a common keyword to test on)
http://tulip.kerioak.com/?s=sky&submit=Search&post_type=image (http://tulip.kerioak.com/?s=sky&submit=Search&post_type=image)
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Here is my csv card if you want to test with it.
www.quailrunphoto.com/symbiocard.csv (http://www.quailrunphoto.com/symbiocard.csv)
David
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When posting symbiocards it might be a good idea to state whether they are for "live" or "testing" sites so we don't end up with a mix of both ?
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Good idea Tinny. The above card is for live.
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Leo, this new version seems to be much slower than previous. I am still testing new version of cache and I am observing network results, simply clicking 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1 back and forth. My live site (with 1.x version) is responding very fast. 2.2.2 also was fast, but now, 2.2.5 is slow. Is there some hidden code doing something time consuming, network fetching each time or something?
Edit: I did nothing, and now it is fast again. And don't know what is was. Maybe something with internet, but old site was fast, and new slow at the same time...
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I have updated my test site symbiocard details to show it is a test site. When I look at the directory where everyone appears more than once, one of the versions (of me) is updated and another one shows the original version.
I have not updated my live site yet so I do not get even more versions showing in the directory.
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So all problems are just in one area good to know
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Since i have some lack of wordpress skills, I'll waiting some days prior to doing upgrade to current version.
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I have updated my test site symbiocard details to show it is a test site. When I look at the directory where everyone appears more than once, one of the versions (of me) is updated and another one shows the original version.
I have not updated my live site yet so I do not get even more versions showing in the directory.
I changed the way keys are generated forcing uniqueness. The old keys remain so I will give method to delete
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BUG in Symbiostock Network Scanner?
It's showing the progress, but no real changes in the network.
I deleted 3 slots and they can't go back.
I then need to use the symbiocard upload.
Although it says:
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Getting site: [url]http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium...[/url] ([url]http://9livesillustrations.com/arctium...[/url])
—Success
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HI there! I checked out the situation with the network scanner. It gave me a huge list of successes. Just to verify we are talking about the same thing, we are referring to this correct: http://stock.imagerion.com/symbiostock-network-directory/ (http://stock.imagerion.com/symbiostock-network-directory/)
You have 3 in your network, the scanner added all of these, which means your seeing success.
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This part is great, BUT I think at the first time, while it was scanning it added some sites to my "Linked Sites"
Now it doesn't do it, or you don't want it?
As I understand, scanning should add some new sites to my networking list - or to some APPROVAL list.
I don't see the possibility at the moment to add a new site I found, except importing the symbiocard by hand - or am I missing something ? (I added that 3 in my "Linked" by hand)
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This part is great, BUT I think at the first time, while it was scanning it added some sites to my "Linked Sites"
Now it doesn't do it, or you don't want it?
As I understand, scanning should add some new sites to my networking list - or to some APPROVAL list.
I don't see the possibility at the moment to add a new site I found, except importing the symbiocard by hand - or am I missing something ? (I added that 3 in my "Linked" by hand)
Actually you just suggested a good idea.
Network scanning is just to add unrelated (non-networked) people to a part of your site for more options and giving them backlink power (keeping in mind people are doing the same for you).
But what you'd like to do is "discover" people, which is a really good idea!
Yes your right adding people is a human task at this time. Although I might actually make a feature to add people you discover.
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yep, I keep thinking about the autodiscovery feature, although I am now focused on something else.
Anyway I thought that each site could discover other by THEIR search attempts - only there should be a real DOMAIN name in the query stream, because some hosts have dynamic IP, so the reverse look up gives an inapriopriate host name.
Then the user could approve or deny from the list of the discovered etc...
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After the groundwork is laid I'd like to put in a lot of that. The networking would be FUN to say the least.
Also an exclusion list should be able to be made also, because not everyone wants certain types of content showing up on their site.
Sadly I have to rush through these bugs right now and set everything working before I attempt to modify anything too heavily.
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It's great already, brand new, more features will show up in time. A lot of fun to work on this.
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Its good to see some techy people getting involved. Remember this is an open source project. Anything you want to put in or contribute is welcome.
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Version 2.2.5
Problem area Symbiocard.
Working version of 2.2.2. updated to 2.2.5
The blue + button doesn't work. Click the button but nothing happens.
This means I can not add more than 1 card to my network.
To fix the problem I have tried, that did not work.
Deleting theme
deactivating network activity
I have compared action to 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 ( I am running both) and the problem is only in 2.2.5
Glenn
The only way this seems to ever happen is if you delete ALL the rows. Then there is no remaining rows to clone. However its fixed by just clicking the tab... so you *may* be having a browser issue. Please update me if this is a problem for you still so I can check out your site and see whats going on.
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Version 2.2.5
Problem area Symbiocard.
Working version of 2.2.2. updated to 2.2.5
The blue + button doesn't work. Click the button but nothing happens.
This means I can not add more than 1 card to my network.
To fix the problem I have tried, that did not work.
Deleting theme
deactivating network activity
I have compared action to 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 ( I am running both) and the problem is only in 2.2.5
Glenn
The only way this seems to ever happen is if you delete ALL the rows. Then there is no remaining rows to clone. However its fixed by just clicking the tab... so you *may* be having a browser issue. Please update me if this is a problem for you still so I can check out your site and see whats going on.
You nailed It...I was using an older version of Firefox. Works with Chrome.
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AJT has been improving the already awesome caching system he made, so here's another update. Also some of the problems addressed before should be taken care of.
Of course there are probably different quirks for everyone, so I will have to wait to see what everyone reports. Thanks for testing :D
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I've just installed 2.2.5 to see what's new - this is the first v2 we've tried.
No problems installing, but...
The MR and PR settings default to 'Yes' so we now have nearly 2000 images claiming MR and PR when they should be N/A. Any way of bulk editing this, bearing in mind that we have two pricing levels?
The previews and thumbs still don't have colour profile tags. They need to be either converted to sRGB or at least tagged as AdobeRGB, as most serious customers are likely to be using colour managed browsers.
Now to start playing with the network...
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I've just installed 2.2.5 to see what's new - this is the first v2 we've tried.
No problems installing, but...
The MR and PR settings default to 'Yes' so we now have nearly 2000 images claiming MR and PR when they should be N/A. Any way of bulk editing this, bearing in mind that we have two pricing levels?
The previews and thumbs still don't have colour profile tags. They need to be either converted to sRGB or at least tagged as AdobeRGB, as most serious customers are likely to be using colour managed browsers.
Now to start playing with the network...
I'll check up on the first one. The sRGB color this is very advanced. Unless I start enabling the theme to use command line stuff, its very hard to reach with imagemagick php functions. But its still on the to-do.
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I've just installed 2.2.5 to see what's new -
Go for 2.2.6 if its telling you an upgrade is available. 2.2.5 will throw you a few curve balls.
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Leo, thanks for seven days :)
Want a bug?
Small one:
Sometimes Extended Network Directory with its blue box is jumping up, like here:
http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/search-images/earphones/ (http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/search-images/earphones/)
And it was silly, that all the time wordpress informed me, that I have 2.2.5 and can update to 2.2.5, and just after 2.2.6 release that info disappeared, so I had to download symbiostock.zip file and install it :)
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That little float problem with the network area - I had thought I cleared that! I guess its still there! Let me know if you see it pop up in other instances.
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That little float problem with the network area - I had thought I cleared that! I guess its still there! Let me know if you see it pop up in other instances.
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/search-images/ornithopter/ (http://www.clipartillustrations.com/search-images/ornithopter/)
:)
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I'm on 2.26 and everytime I try to add someone to my network and save changes they disappear, its the first person I've added so not sure if I am doing it right or there is an error?
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If they are not running the 2+ series they will not get added. They have to have a symbiocard available.
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I'm on 2.26 and everytime I try to add someone to my network and save changes they disappear, its the first person I've added so not sure if I am doing it right or there is an error?
I can confirm this. I've removed all sites from my network and couldn't add them again, after save they disappear.
Leo, go to my site and try to add yours.
Symbiocards work.
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Must check for updates before posting :)
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It might not be you completely. AJT is right.
The problem I've been experiencing is getting the simple network features from v1 to adapt to the more complex ones of v2. We're getting there :D
I'll see if I can't get that solved quickly.
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One more thing, a work-around for the moment - uploading their symbiocard will still work and jumpstart everything.
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I am currently on 2.2.6. The footer background is white again. I really like the dark textured background.
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I hadn't changed it. You mean in in the previous vsn it was different?
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Yes, it was a dark textured gray. See attached from the 2.2.2 test environment
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I hadn't changed it. You mean in in the previous vsn it was different?
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I checked it out. See if its the same for you ... waiting for it to load it became gray again when the background image finally loaded.
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I reloaded the page and waited 2 minutes. Still white. Well not pure white, maybe off white. See attached.
I checked it out. See if its the same for you ... waiting for it to load it became gray again when the background image finally loaded.
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http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/ (http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/)
http://quailrunphoto.com/ (http://quailrunphoto.com/)
Both show the gray background. How does everyone else see it?
2.2.7 is now available, network 0-member bug fixed.
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I see
symbiotest/ is dark
quailrunphoto.com/ is light
after some F5s
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We're having a real twightlight zone moment here. We're living in parallel realities or something. I tested in firefox, chrome, and explorer (all dark). I wonder whats going on !?!?!
It seems we've caught up on most major bugs? Keep them coming guys.
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I got to thinking about the child/parent theme relationship. So I turned the child theme off and then on. That corrected the footer color issue.
We're having a real twightlight zone moment here. We're living in parallel realities or something. I tested in firefox, chrome, and explorer (all dark). I wonder whats going on !?!?!
It seems we've caught up on most major bugs? Keep them coming guys.
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My footer was white, too. Turning off an on the child theme + one time F5 made the real footer visible for me (on latest Firefox).
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V. 2.2.7 - tulip.kerioak.com
Got rid of all the duplicate data in the directory section :)
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Datasheets. (EDITED - just found option not to have them so will select that for live site but left the bug query for now in case it is one)
Not sure about these for a couple of reasons
1. I want (please) my copyright data to remain with the image and the title, description, keywords okay
2. Not sure about having all the other stuff - no one else needs to know what version of photoshop I am using or which camera(s) I might own and all the detailed information. If there is ever a query about ownership of an image it might be useful to have that kept private so it can be produced at an appropriate time rather than available to everyone?
3. BUG ?
Image A - produced via computer programme two days ago and then saved in PS http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/stock-image-by-christine/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/stock-image-by-christine/) no data sheet, possibly because png file ?
Image B - exactly the same image but with a black background added and saved as jpg with a couple of details http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/flame/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/flame/) - interesting datasheet, bears no relation whatsoever to the image, the image it relates to was not open (in PS) when I created saved it
Image C - the image that Image-2 acquired the datasheet from http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/dancing-drinks/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/dancing-drinks/)
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Footer, I still have my lavender footer without doing anything but reactivating child theme, only mentioning this because of comments above.
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V 2.2.7
Author options page
I forgot to play with this but have a few queries.
Exclusive/Not exclusive. What does this do? I assumed for instance that if I selected Exclusive and then changed the prices it would changed those for exclusive images but nothing happens (that I can see) and if you select Exclusive, Change prices then Update all existing images it changes everything.
It would be great if this could change the prices (or other editable options) on only exclusive (or non exclusive) images.
Pricing Options - Works to change everything well
Size Options - looking forward to this at some point - (PS I forgot to stress getting size right before starting in my tutorial)
Append to title - works
Reflection - on/off keep default as off. Cannot get rid of reflections on some of my images in test site but that maybe because they were being uploaded when you were first installing V2 ?
Model release
Property release = cannot see where the results of these are shown
I have added it to this image http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/curly-hair-and-blue-sky/ (http://tulip.kerioak.com/image/curly-hair-and-blue-sky/) but cannot see it.
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Another question - relating to model releases
When we update our live sites to V2 it would be nice to note whether model releases are available or not without having to go though every image individually. Could there be a way of sorting, for instance, the category People and bulk editing that category?
Datasheets - commented on in previous message
Referral Links - I have not used these so no comments on them
Update all existing images with new options - would be nice to have some additional buttons such as Update all Exclusive, Non-Exclusive,
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I'll get those last few things enabled before launch. I've been putting them off because I don't want to mess them up :D. Thanks for mentioning again.
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Version 2.2.7 ( may effect earlier version)
Area Effected email notification/ contact form
I tried installing Clean and Simple contact form plug-in:
http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/ (http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/)
Email does not include name and email address from the form, making it difficult to respond
Disabling Synbiostock email plug-in allows the clean and simple to work properly.
What is the best contact form, with spam control to use with Symbiostock?
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Version 2.2.7 ( may effect earlier version)
Area Effected email notification/ contact form
I tried installing Clean and Simple contact form plug-in:
[url]http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/[/url] ([url]http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/[/url])
Email does not include name and email address from the form, making it difficult to respond
Disabling Synbiostock email plug-in allows the clean and simple to work properly.
What is the best contact form, with spam control to use with Symbiostock?
Akismet or whatever its callled is great for spam. And thank you very much for that bug report. I know exactly whats causing it.
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Version 2.2.7 ( may effect earlier version)
Area Effected email notification/ contact form
I tried installing Clean and Simple contact form plug-in:
[url]http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/[/url] ([url]http://www.megnicholas.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/clean-and-simple-contact-form/[/url])
Email does not include name and email address from the form, making it difficult to respond
Disabling Synbiostock email plug-in allows the clean and simple to work properly.
What is the best contact form, with spam control to use with Symbiostock?
Akismet or whatever its callled is great for spam. And thank you very much for that bug report. I know exactly whats causing it.
Do I
a) use Akismet as a contact form ( Is it a contact form?)
b) Find another form that will work
or
c) relax...take a break... not worry about it, while the amazing code wizard named Leo solves this problem in an update or two..... ;D ;)
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This is probably related to the previously mentioned search issue(s) ... searching for a substring of an existing keyword gets different result, for example a search for "flower" does not include the results from a search for "flowers." Is this expected?
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This is probably related to the previously mentioned search issue(s) ... searching for a substring of an existing keyword gets different result, for example a search for "flower" does not include the results from a search for "flowers." Is this expected?
For now it is. I'm still using wordpress's search system with some improvements...but soon there will be the ability to search for "bread" and get "wonderbread" :D
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OK - moving bugs over here:
Version 3.0 - My footer was a dark background, now it's light grey and some text is barely readable.
Version 3.0 - error messages related to image processing or publishing
When I run the "update all existing images with new values" process I get this error message:
Warning: unpack() [function.unpack]: Type A: not enough input, need 1, have 0 in /home2/virtubm8/public_html/karensarragaphotography/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/IPTC.php on line 263
When I make changes and publish an individual image I'm still getting that same message shown above, listed twice, followed by this one:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/virtubm8/public_html/karensarragaphotography/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/IPTC.php:263) in /home2/virtubm8/public_html/karensarragaphotography/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876
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Possibly related to the bug where Cathyslife images are not showing up in the search, returning just an image number: I'm seeing the same thing but in my linked sites I notice that Cathy's Network Logo has disappeared next to her name in my links. It just says "Network Logo".
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Thanks, I'll log those on the OP.
If you didn't get the memo (and you want memos) subscribe on the sidebar to the right:
http://www.symbiostock.com/promoted-keywords-search-for-stuttgart-find-frankie-extended-beta/
(Promoted Keywords. Search for "stuttgart", find Frankie. + Extended Beta)
Meanwhile that little blog post will tell you how helpful your promoted keywords will be for you, in extending your promotion reach. Soon I'll have your directories fetching stuff many hops away, but I'm building it up slowly and surely to avoid problems.
So yes, keep logging bugs :D
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Leo I still cannot upgrade to any of the 2. versions
I just get white screens for the site and admin. on all the versions above 1.3.7
Steve
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Just before I assume this is the theme doing it, did you deactivate all of your plugins before activating the theme? Sometimes plugins can do that sort of thing.
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I updated to 2.3.1 no big issues so far. Leo I saw that we click model release option at one point but info does not appear on the final picture?
example below:
http://aseanphotostock.com/image/asian-girl-and-apsara/ (http://aseanphotostock.com/image/asian-girl-and-apsara/)
Laurent
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Just before I assume this is the theme doing it, did you deactivate all of your plugins before activating the theme? Sometimes plugins can do that sort of thing.
No - guess I'll try that.
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Deactivated all plugins tried again still get white screen.
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Hi Leo,
I can't add other site to my network, i tried enter http://www.flashstockphoto.com (http://www.flashstockphoto.com) manually then press the "Plus" sign button, but nothing happen after that. I also tried to upload .csv file after press the "Upload" button also nothing happen.
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if you do something like www. it won't work. you have to do http://www (http://www)
But apparently I've helped you before (love your logo!) and my session was still active so I went in and added it myself.
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if you do something like www. it won't work. you have to do [url]http://www[/url] ([url]http://www[/url])
But apparently I've helped you before (love your logo!) and my session was still active so I went in and added it myself.
Thanks Leo, you are right I did www. , how about csv? may be because of the file name? coz i uploaded file name like symbiocard (4). csv
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Symbiocard should work. I'll try it out
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Yup! That works too. Autospammed your friend too.
Were you pushing "save" instead of the "upload" button beside the field?
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Leo - not quite a bug, but could the author page's URL use the Author's nickname field in the WP User area, rather than the unchangeable username field?
e.g.: this is my author page's url
http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/ (http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/)
because my it's using my email address that I signed up with, and WP doesn't allow me to change this in my user options. But this really has no relevance for my author's page. Plus i'd rather it not be on display.
Instead, can it be our user profile's nickname, so I could make it
thpstockphotos.com/author/tim-hester
which is much more relevant for SEO plus better for how each user wants it.
Is this possible, as I really think this needs to change?
BTW - Feel free to grab my CSV from that link above if you want to link to my site anyone. I was a bit slow getting into V2 so I seem to have lost some linkers! :)
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And about disappearing images from cathylifestockphotos.com. It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking. I tried simple htm file, with <img src=...> only, and image showed up for a while, then disappeared.
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It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking.
LOL
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Leo - not quite a bug, but could the author page's URL use the Author's nickname field in the WP User area, rather than the unchangeable username field?
e.g.: this is my author page's url
[url]http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/[/url] ([url]http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/[/url])
because my it's using my email address that I signed up with, and WP doesn't allow me to change this in my user options. But this really has no relevance for my author's page. Plus i'd rather it not be on display.
Instead, can it be our user profile's nickname, so I could make it
thpstockphotos.com/author/tim-hester
which is much more relevant for SEO plus better for how each user wants it.
Is this possible, as I really think this needs to change?
BTW - Feel free to grab my CSV from that link above if you want to link to my site anyone. I was a bit slow getting into V2 so I seem to have lost some linkers! :)
Let me see if I can do that. I think there's more than one way to link to that page.
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Yup! That works too. Autospammed your friend too.
Were you pushing "save" instead of the "upload" button beside the field?
I didn't push the "save" button, I press the "upload" button only :P
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So if you try with other sites upload does not work?
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Hi Leo,
I know what is wrong now, using chrome I can't add network, I just try at firework it work perfectly. May be you try at chrome and see.
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It should work in all browsers. I'll take note of that in the original post thanks.
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Leo - not quite a bug, but could the author page's URL use the Author's nickname field in the WP User area, rather than the unchangeable username field?
e.g.: this is my author page's url
[url]http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/[/url] ([url]http://thpstockphotos.com/author/infotimhester-com-au/[/url])
because my it's using my email address that I signed up with, and WP doesn't allow me to change this in my user options. But this really has no relevance for my author's page. Plus i'd rather it not be on display.
Instead, can it be our user profile's nickname, so I could make it
thpstockphotos.com/author/tim-hester
which is much more relevant for SEO plus better for how each user wants it.
Is this possible, as I really think this needs to change?
BTW - Feel free to grab my CSV from that link above if you want to link to my site anyone. I was a bit slow getting into V2 so I seem to have lost some linkers! :)
Let me see if I can do that. I think there's more than one way to link to that page.
Thanks leo, I really think this would be beneficial to change to make it relevant.
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2.3.3
www.symbiostock.com (http://www.symbiostock.com) to download.
http://www.symbiostock.com/v2-3-3-arctium-effect-added-your-site-travels-by-itself-now/ (http://www.symbiostock.com/v2-3-3-arctium-effect-added-your-site-travels-by-itself-now/)
This was the most important feature yet to add...now you can get really well targeted traffic with your site able to travel without being spidered by other networks. See above post for details.
Keep reporting bugs :D I can't wait till this is over and things are "stable".
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With 2.3.3 marketing page stopped working. First I saw three save buttons, and now is only one, but it does nothing.
On network page I see two save buttons, first working, second not :)
And I see my network results on my site, but I don't have it in my network (this was in 2.3.2 and is in 2.3.3)
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Could you please gimme a login? It never fails, with every new feature comes a follow-up.
I need to see for myself what is happening.
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User added.
And now it is ok again...on marketing, but network have 2 buttons.
And my site in network results :)
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Strangely I didn't actually do anything wrong that time. Apparently the admin area didn't like my use of their classes in that instance...was updating document wrong with every refresh.
All better now.
2.3.4
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BTW Amanda designed the "arctium" screenshot in the theme :D
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2.3.4
I appear twice but this is actually quite cool
http://stockimages.kerioak.com/?s=black+dog&submit=Search&post_type=image (http://stockimages.kerioak.com/?s=black+dog&submit=Search&post_type=image)
It means that potential clients can zip back and forth though my images in the lower search results much faster and if required compare them to the main site results (hopefully that will make sense, especially if you follow the link)
The arctium screenshot is now showing up - it does look good.
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All better now.
And what about my site in network search results, like here:
http://ajotte.com/search-images/book/ (http://ajotte.com/search-images/book/)
?
Update: I noticed, that when I exclude my site on marketing page, it is also excluded from network results. But when included, comes back again. Is it supposed to work in this way?
Update2: It happens when my site has matching keyword in "Promoted Keywords", but I think that it should be excluded by default .... or maybe not :)
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Finally after several attempts I was able to upgrade to this latest version.
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It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking.
LOL
Thanks for laughing at me.
Yes i did activate hotlinking protection. Since some of you geniuses know exactly how all this stuff works, and i do not, i wasnt sure what problems that might cause. Apparently you all are hotlinked to my site via the network.
Thanks for the heads up. I will remove it tonight.
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It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking.
LOL
Thanks for laughing at me.
Yes i did activate hotlinking protection. Since some of you geniuses know exactly how all this stuff works, and i do not, i wasnt sure what problems that might cause. Apparently you all are hotlinked to my site via the network.
Thanks for the heads up. I will remove it tonight.
I didn't laugh at you. Hotlinking ( showing images on one site from another site) is what Symbiostock is all about. I want your images on my site...and I want my images on your site.
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CRUCIAL BUG
my site does not send passwords during registration.. (it only works if I disable SYMBIOSTOCK - Emails and Notifications plugin)
IMPORTANT BUG
my site does not send purchase confirmation email to customers anymore.. (it would probably work after disabling the same plugin.. haven't tested that but it is obvious I think)
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Last night I installed the latest version to just test it, I went to process the first test photo and when to reprocess the photo and got the failed to copy error. What was the fix?
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I manually added a new test user this morning and requested an email confirmation. No email was received. I checked the spam filter but it was empty. Seem there is a problem with the email notification process.
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Just a little thing, but could we please have the default setting for new images as N/A for model and property releases - will save a little work when editing each image if you are going to make it visible in the public area :)
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Update on email notification. Eventually the email notification ended up in the spam filter. It took about 20 minutes. Not sure why the delay. Lost is cyber space I guess.
Had a friend create a new user. The email notification also ended up in the spam filter, but within just a few minutes. We use the same ISP so something about their spam filters don't like these notifications.
When this new user logs in their are taken to the Customer License and File Management page, instead of the Home page. Is this something new?
PS: I am currently on v2.3.4.
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It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking.
LOL
Thanks for laughing at me.
Yes i did activate hotlinking protection. Since some of you geniuses know exactly how all this stuff works, and i do not, i wasnt sure what problems that might cause. Apparently you all are hotlinked to my site via the network.
Thanks for the heads up. I will remove it tonight.
I didn't laugh at you. Hotlinking ( showing images on one site from another site) is what Symbiostock is all about. I want your images on my site...and I want my images on your site.
No it was leo who LOLd instead of explaining exactly how the networking works. Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do. But hey no problem. As you were with the bugs.
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Just a little thing, but could we please have the default setting for new images as N/A for model and property releases - will save a little work when editing each image if you are going to make it visible in the public area :)
Ya agree with Tinny, coz I didn't notice this two release added in new version, I uploaded 40 images all with Model and Property release YES. Could we also add Model and Property release at "Quick Edit"? :)
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Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do.
The level of knowledge and understanding within this group is varied. When the real release happens tech support will be critical for new users.... as members of the community we have to be prepared for all level of questions and responses.
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Just a little thing, but could we please have the default setting for new images as N/A for model and property releases - will save a little work when editing each image if you are going to make it visible in the public area :)
Ya agree with Tinny, coz I didn't notice this two release added in new version, I uploaded 40 images all with Model and Property release YES. Could we also add Model and Property release at "Quick Edit"? :)
Seconded :D
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Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do.
The level of knowledge and understanding within this group is varied. When the real release happens tech support will be critical for new users.... as members of the community we have to be prepared for all level of questions and responses.
which is why a FAQ is important, since the threads here are huge & intimidating to newcomers -- I've been copying the major pr blems I read here and have a number of new items to add to http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/)
some of these entries sare links to other members posts on their sites. if you see something that needs to be added - write a post and send me the link and I can quickly add it
eg:
http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/ (http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/)
http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/ (http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/)
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Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do.
The level of knowledge and understanding within this group is varied. When the real release happens tech support will be critical for new users.... as members of the community we have to be prepared for all level of questions and responses.
which is why a FAQ is important, since the threads here are huge & intimidating to newcomers -- I've been copying the major pr blems I read here and have a number of new items to add to [url]http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/[/url] ([url]http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/[/url])
some of these entries sare links to other members posts on their sites. if you see something that needs to be added - write a post and send me the link and I can quickly add it
eg:
[url]http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/[/url] ([url]http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/[/url])
[url]http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/[/url] ([url]http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/[/url])
This is very much appreciated and very helpful. I am also interested in some of the technical aspects of how the site and networking is working and it would be helpful to get explanations, not in total geekspeak, but something most can understand. For instance, i know enough to know what hotlinking is, but did not know that is how this project works and how we are all tied together. I see people talking about other features like promoted keywords but have no clue what that is, how it works with the site, etc. the answer might be somewhere in a thread and i try to keep up, but it is becoming overwhelming.
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Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do.
The level of knowledge and understanding within this group is varied. When the real release happens tech support will be critical for new users.... as members of the community we have to be prepared for all level of questions and responses.
which is why a FAQ is important, since the threads here are huge & intimidating to newcomers -- I've been copying the major pr blems I read here and have a number of new items to add to [url]http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/[/url] ([url]http://cascoly-images.com/pix/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-symbiostock/[/url])
some of these entries sare links to other members posts on their sites. if you see something that needs to be added - write a post and send me the link and I can quickly add it
eg:
[url]http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/[/url] ([url]http://www.symbiostock.com/forums/topic/getting-started/[/url])
[url]http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/[/url] ([url]http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/hints-on-symbiostock-site-customising/[/url])
This is very much appreciated and very helpful. I am also interested in some of the technical aspects of how the site and networking is working and it would be helpful to get explanations, not in total geekspeak, but something most can understand. For instance, i know enough to know what hotlinking is, but did not know that is how this project works and how we are all tied together. I see people talking about other features like promoted keywords but have no clue what that is, how it works with the site, etc. the answer might be somewhere in a thread and i try to keep up, but it is becoming overwhelming.
The FAQ is a good start. You might break it up into a beginners quick start and advanced FAQ. As cclapper note, we all come to this with different skill levels and we want to make it successful for each new user.
Just my 2 cents worth.
David
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This is very much appreciated and very helpful. I am also interested in some of the technical aspects of how the site and networking is working and it would be helpful to get explanations, not in total geekspeak, but something most can understand. For instance, i know enough to know what hotlinking is, but did not know that is how this project works and how we are all tied together. I see people talking about other features like promoted keywords but have no clue what that is, how it works with the site, etc. the answer might be somewhere in a thread and i try to keep up, but it is becoming overwhelming.
definitely -- right now most of this info resides with leo and he's busy trapping bugs - but I agree it's very important and eventually there will be more technical info on the symbiostock site. we need descriptions of the connections among the various types of info which are all stored in one db table, and then an overview of what the system does. someone can do this by studying the code, but it's painful.
for the networking, i'm working on external routines that read the various csv files and collate them for searching with preliminary samples at http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp (http://cascoly.com/symbio/testsymbio.asp)
right now i'm trying t tho automate the collection of the csv files from various sites and once I et this done, i'll document what & how for this aspect.
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The FAQ is a good start. You might break it up into a beginners quick start and advanced FAQ. As cclapper note, we all come to this with different skill levels and we want to make it successful for each new user.
Just my 2 cents worth.
David
good idea -- I'd already planned to split the faq into 2 parts -- users and hosts, and the hosts section could be split into getting started and advanced features, tho the line between these is blurry
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is there a reason not to combine the marketing and network listings? couldnt we just create our network by clicking on the sites we want in the marketing page?
also, when we click on the 'get sym card' icon on networking - why not use the same file name you do in seeds rather than calling all of them symbiocard? (all these were at least v2.3.3)
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also, on marketing
'Scan network and update directory'. - shoudnt this be a button that immediately performs the task, rather than a check box
same for reset - this should be a button too, but it's such a drastic action (deleting all cards in seeds folder too, so should have a confirmation 'do you really..'----
the phrase & link '— See extended directory' needs its own line outside the listing box
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I do a reset extended network, but then scan gets NOTHING
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The slideshow on the network images is making me feel seasick. Can autoplay be optional? I'd love to switch it off if possible.
BTW We are appearing in our own network searches. Is that a bug or a feature?
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It seems that she has active something (plugin?) against hotlinking.
LOL
Thanks for laughing at me.
Yes i did activate hotlinking protection. Since some of you geniuses know exactly how all this stuff works, and i do not, i wasnt sure what problems that might cause. Apparently you all are hotlinked to my site via the network.
Thanks for the heads up. I will remove it tonight.
That wasn't a demeaning laugh. Just funny to prevent hotlinking in a system that is hotlink dependent. If nothing else its a good clickthrough strategy so we figure out what it is we are missing! :D
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CRUCIAL BUG
my site does not send passwords during registration.. (it only works if I disable SYMBIOSTOCK - Emails and Notifications plugin)
IMPORTANT BUG
my site does not send purchase confirmation email to customers anymore.. (it would probably work after disabling the same plugin.. haven't tested that but it is obvious I think)
Added to list.
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I manually added a new test user this morning and requested an email confirmation. No email was received. I checked the spam filter but it was empty. Seem there is a problem with the email notification process.
Glad to hear its not just cidepix. Will be on this soon.
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Guess i was just supposed to know that all along. Now i do.
The level of knowledge and understanding within this group is varied. When the real release happens tech support will be critical for new users.... as members of the community we have to be prepared for all level of questions and responses.
Either we're going to need a really good wiki, or even better, just a bunch of people helping as they continue to get versed in the whole thing. I like the second option better :D
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This is very much appreciated and very helpful. I am also interested in some of the technical aspects of how the site and networking is working and it would be helpful to get explanations, not in total geekspeak, but something most can understand. For instance, i know enough to know what hotlinking is, but did not know that is how this project works and how we are all tied together. I see people talking about other features like promoted keywords but have no clue what that is, how it works with the site, etc. the answer might be somewhere in a thread and i try to keep up, but it is becoming overwhelming.
No joke.
Actually promoted keywords are the very thing SY has been building toward. And it needs its own explanation. I'll write one up and link to it in the help area.
BTW - are people actually using the internal help-links / help file I've been building?
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The FAQ is a good start. You might break it up into a beginners quick start and advanced FAQ. As cclapper note, we all come to this with different skill levels and we want to make it successful for each new user.
Just my 2 cents worth.
David
good idea -- I'd already planned to split the faq into 2 parts -- users and hosts, and the hosts section could be split into getting started and advanced features, tho the line between these is blurry
I really appreciate all your help on this. BTW I'm going to turn out that keywords csv you and i were talking about today.
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is there a reason not to combine the marketing and network listings? couldnt we just create our network by clicking on the sites we want in the marketing page?
also, when we click on the 'get sym card' icon on networking - why not use the same file name you do in seeds rather than calling all of them symbiocard? (all these were at least v2.3.3)
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also, on marketing
'Scan network and update directory'. - shoudnt this be a button that immediately performs the task, rather than a check box
same for reset - this should be a button too, but it's such a drastic action (deleting all cards in seeds folder too, so should have a confirmation 'do you really..'----
the phrase & link '— See extended directory' needs its own line outside the listing box
All good ideas! I don't want to overwhelm the network page - but if you guys want to add in the directory page with the network page let me know and I'll make the adjustment. Its a simple "include" so 10 minutes of work or less.
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Not sure if it's the contact form or someones trying to mess with me but. Using contact form 7 to send a test email went to spam folder requesting to reset password (which I haven't done).
It's weird because I got another email from another forum saying someone tried to login as me but failed. So I'm not sure if the one I got from wordpress is what I sent.
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The slideshow on the network images is making me feel seasick. Can autoplay be optional? I'd love to switch it off if possible.
BTW We are appearing in our own network searches. Is that a bug or a feature?
Not a bug...just a thing working like it supposed to - apparently its picking up a promoted keyword. I just have to build in a check that its not promoting you on your own site :D
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Leo - My testing (tulip) site is supposed to be de-activated but is still showing up on the network results - see stockabily.com (although I have just sent a pm to Jean asking him to delete/change it)
Deleting sites from extended network does not make them disappear - they come back with next save.
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The shopping cart bug that causes the items to still be in cart after payment was not sorted by refreshing the page yesterday during my test purchase..
Maybe a link like "thanks for your purchase.. please click here to go to your purchased items" would be good.. that link would just re-send user to the same page..
Leo, the solution you mentioned yesterday could work as well..
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is there a reason not to combine the marketing and network listings? couldnt we just create our network by clicking on the sites we want in the marketing page?
also, when we click on the 'get sym card' icon on networking - why not use the same file name you do in seeds rather than calling all of them symbiocard? (all these were at least v2.3.3)
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also, on marketing
'Scan network and update directory'. - shoudnt this be a button that immediately performs the task, rather than a check box
same for reset - this should be a button too, but it's such a drastic action (deleting all cards in seeds folder too, so should have a confirmation 'do you really..'----
the phrase & link '— See extended directory' needs its own line outside the listing box
All good ideas! I don't want to overwhelm the network page - but if you guys want to add in the directory page with the network page let me know and I'll make the adjustment. Its a simple "include" so 10 minutes of work or less.
what's the current difference between network & directory? seems like they should be the same -- if there's a limit to the network, you could add another box along with 'promote','exclude', etc then you could have 10 checks in the network list, unlimited in the others
an update is donealso, if deleted will the sites still show up (grayed out?)? otherwise deleted sites will keep coming back when a new scan update is done
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Difference:
1. Network is contolled by you.
2. Directory is automatically populated, the result of network ties.
3. Promoted keywords allow "directory comparison" where symbiocards jump directories based on demand.
1. Human controled.
2. Machine controlled.
3. Search / customer controlled.
So its a hierarchical relationship that ensures subjects find their way to their target audience gradually. Sort of like how Burdock plants use animal/human traffic to relocate ideally.
So although your "scanner" can see friends of friends, your scanner does not know whats in directories. This saves your website from working too hard and bloating up, having a lot of irrelevant contacts. Important for when SY starts becoming a huge network.
When your site does a remote search, however, your friend's site scans their own directory for promoted keywords, and Symbiocards containing those promoted keywords "jump", being added to a spidering que.
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Sorry if I'm a bit slow, but what does ticking the 'promote' tick box on the Marketing page do exactly?
And what is the difference between exclude and delete on this page?
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Sorry if I'm a bit slow, but what does ticking the 'promote' tick box on the Marketing page do exactly?
And what is the difference between exclude and delete on this page?
Promote doesn't do anything yet, since everything is promoted by default. Call it future development.
Delete - deletes the person from your directory.
Exclude - Most important - if someone has content you do not wish to include (use your imagination) then thats the button you want.
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ok thanks for that leo.
hey I just went to someones site and it came up with this pop up box...
*This code sits in the CSV. Infected symbiocard could do some bad things
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Yeah, that was a cute attempt of a webmaster to show how it can be tampered with :D it wasn't legitimately infected.
Basically that tells me I just have to do a code-strip on both sides.
Technically symbiocards always come directly from the source website.
So even though a symbiocard is "Sensed" in a directory of a neighbor site, it is still enqued and retrieved from the source site. So I can't just "infect" one and send it loose. Symbiocards are retrieved from the source.
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ah ok cool.
Noticed a couple of funny things...
http://thpstockphotos.com/image/lush-grass-2/ (http://thpstockphotos.com/image/lush-grass-2/) (just as an example, any picture page will do it)
Click on any of the text below the image - the description, the author bio or the image updated section and watch it dance! (click LOTS to see what I mean better). Why is this text not just text now? How come it can be clicked? And can we stop it from doing that!?
Also, the drop down that you have on the image page (as above), the default item in the list that shows up is "Photographer Info" and it's clickable - but it doesn't do anything. Could it direct you to the author page instead? Seems more logical to me.
Also, where its got my name under the picture, "Tim Hester", could we have an option to append some text in front of it, such as "Image by" or "(C) THP Stock Photos / "or whatever we like, so that it sort of acts as a byline for the picture?
Lastly, the bio summary that shows up on the image pages, can it be lengthened a little, so that there's not as much empty space created by having the authors picture showing up there?
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After I kill the nasty bugs I can give attention to those if you send me a memo on email along with maybe some sort of Australian cool Australian soda or treat or something...
But your last item - lengthening bio - I tried to keep the verbage short so your image verbage keeps SEO spotlight.
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After I kill the nasty bugs I can give attention to those if you send me a memo on email along with maybe some sort of Australian cool Australian soda or treat or something...
But your last item - lengthening bio - I tried to keep the verbage short so your image verbage keeps SEO spotlight.
Will do, and good point on the last point :) jar of vegemite on the way...
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seem to have lost the ability to have ordered and unordered lists show up properly. No bullet points or numbers appearing. See my homepage
http://thpstockphotos.com (http://thpstockphotos.com)
Under the heading "Buying stock photos & vectors direct – Why?" there is an unordered list, but no bullet points. tried changing it to OL but no luck either
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Finally after several attempts I was able to upgrade to this latest version.
Could you tell me what this was after all?
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seem to have lost the ability to have ordered and unordered lists show up properly. No bullet points or numbers appearing. See my homepage
[url]http://thpstockphotos.com[/url] ([url]http://thpstockphotos.com[/url])
Under the heading "Buying stock photos & vectors direct – Why?" there is an unordered list, but no bullet points. tried changing it to OL but no luck either
I changed list since it was messing up some generic lists in the theme.
You can just add it to your child theme:
ul {
list-style: disc;
}
ol{
list-style: decimal;
}
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What will it mess up if i add it in? (thanks for the code)
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Don't think so :D you'll be able to see if it does anything funky. Be sure to add it to your child theme.
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will do, thanks.
hope you got all those emails...sorry!
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Sorry if I'm a bit slow, but what does ticking the 'promote' tick box on the Marketing page do exactly?
And what is the difference between exclude and delete on this page?
Promote doesn't do anything yet, since everything is promoted by default. Call it future development.
Delete - deletes the person from your directory.
Exclude - Most important - if someone has content you do not wish to include (use your imagination) then thats the button you want.
ok, thanks, that starts making more sense now
how deep does the search go?
when do the extended directory & promoted keywords come into play?
if I search for 'animal' and have 10 sites in my network, what happens?
if all sites have images that match, do any of them look further?
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Hi there! I'm almost done your tag-list function. It will auto-generate when images are.
Put as simple as possible:
I search "animal" on your site. Your site does two things:
It searches your network contacts as it always does. Your network contact's site searches their own directory for "animal". If it does have it, it lists the site in the XML response.
If your site sees anything listed, it adds those to a "spidering" que.
It scans your directory to see if anyone has promoted keyword "animal" and lists them.
The next day the newly discovered site will be in your directory, and its results will show.
It takes a whole day for a site to "hop". Which is ok...its following the path of demand. Not attempting to give "instant" results.
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v2.3.5
Mostly bug fixes. Below marketing tab you can access your image and keyword csv files - which some marketing services may use.
AJT updated the caching functions too.
We have some stuff under way from some people helping on search. Also Amanda may be giving the theme a small make-over, but since she is busy it will probably be a while (no rush :D)
In the meantime, as main bugs are addressed, I think my final order of business is to start listing credits of people who have helped, on the main site or perhaps right in the theme itself.
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update seems to have removed my categories from my symbiocard? Nothing is listed under it now on my author page, was fully filled just a few minutes ago prior to the update...
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You picked up on that fast! I was just getting ready to upload the new version
v blah blah blah .6
I did a small security update on symbiocards. I also fixed your flickering text :D
Tune in in like 3 minutes...
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I think appearing twice is great as it lets clients look slowly or zoom though images (original search and I assume directory) but now I appear three times which I assume is due to the promoted keywords ? Try searching animal on my site for example
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You picked up on that fast! I was just getting ready to upload the new version
v blah blah blah .6
I did a small security update on symbiocards. I also fixed your flickering text :D
Tune in in like 3 minutes...
Haha, sorry to be so punctual in updating, it wont happen again! (at least not tonight, im outa here for the day)
Thanks for the quick fix though. and the flickering text too.
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Since I'm a tad more tired lately I'm missing more things - but I'm going to do one more upload with that double-listing removed.
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Sorry to BUG you again Leo
The new categories are in the wrong format eg:
<li class="cat-item cat-item-4"><a href="http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image-type/abstract-backgrounds-textures-images-piccys/" title="Category for "Abstract | Backgrounds | Textures" related images.">Abstract | Backgrounds | Textures[/url] (<a href="http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image-type/abstract-backgrounds-textures-images-piccys/feed/" title="rss">rss[/url]) (95) <ul
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Fixed. Tired. .7
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Agree, Fixed. Thank you
Goodnight Leo
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Finally after several attempts I was able to upgrade to this latest version.
Could you tell me what this was after all?
I disabled all plugins. Deactivated the theme and child theme.
Uploaded the newest version 2.3.7 - uploaded the child theme again and activated both.
And it worked.
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.....
It scans your directory to see if anyone has promoted keyword "animal" and lists them.
The next day the newly discovered site will be in your directory, and its results will show.
It takes a whole day for a site to "hop". Which is ok...its following the path of demand. Not attempting to give "instant" results.
how big can the directory get?
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I had a problem and had to reinstall the wp-content folder on my site, so I also had to reinstall the symbiostock theme
it cleaned up some of the network problems i'd had before -- now I can add a network (by copying it from the marketing page) and the + turns blue and it gives me another box to add; hwever whether I click 'save public network' or not, it doesn't save anything I enter
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I know this isn't a real fix but could u use firefox for now?
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I know this isn't a real fix but could u use firefox for now?
installed firefox & get same result as with ie10 -- when I add a site & desc, click to upd csv & network, then save it says it's updated, but the network goes back to blank
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THE BUG
After processing pics:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/PHP_JPEG_Metadata_Toolkit/EXIF.php on line 633
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Its not deadly but will get to it eventually
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I have been out of the loop for a while but just installed v.2.3.7 after my old image processing cr@pped out on me.
So I thought I upgrade it to see if the updated image processor (if it was even updated... no idea) would work.
I got this error message after uploading one image when I try to process it to drafts:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Error::resize() in /home/abcd/public_html/abcd.com/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock_image_processor.php on line 754
Never had this issue before. I never changed anything and uploads ALWAYS went through smoothly. Now I get this message.
What could be the issue?
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Thats a strange place to have a crash. By that point its already resized a few things...
Are you getting this a lot or only on a few?
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Thats a strange place to have a crash. By that point its already resized a few things...
Are you getting this a lot or only on a few?
I got it to work but it may be something you have to look into:
This error only occurred when I uploaded one specific photo. 6000x4000 pixels HDR. First I thought some memory changes were made on the server side, which would limit me in terms of image size how large the images can be before the image processor quits. Nope.
I could only get the image to be processed if I selected Baseline(" Standard") in Photoshop instead of "Progressive" when saving the file.
All my previous images were saved progressive and got processed fine but this one image failed every time. I made sure it's sRGB and 8-bit because I had issues before as well with images that were in Adobe RGB color space.
Maybe this is of any help. I'm glad though it went through now.
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When an user (subscriber) edit or update their profile, will cause the admin symbiostock network profile to become empty or replace by their info.
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here the screenshot of my symbiostock network profile changed after an user updated their Biographical Info to "testing".
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I tried to duplicate this, and when I tried to save user info, I saw white screen with
"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/phodopus/domains/ajotte.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/functions.php on line 1136"
Update: I've added line
if ($options!==false)
before line 1136 in functions.php and now it works, user bio saves and admin bio is not replaced, but Symbiostock info disappear.
I don't know if that options can be false there (but they are) and what are they for, so Leo should have a look :)
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Will add that. Btw I can still add small revisions esp when people help like this so thanks a lot
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Leo, I really understand that you need a break and want to enjoy the summer. And I'm really happy with everything now except the missing extended license. I think about of trying to code it myself but actually I do not know very much about php. My idea was to use the vector size (which I don't need as I do only photos) and change everything in functions.php from vector to extended license. But I fear that this is not everything what must be done to have the extended license implemented correctly from the beginning (setting the price) to the end (making the download available to the customer). Could you give me some hints which files must be changed ... or could you even imagine to implement it yourself before your summer break?
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The flu is going through the family - I thought it would have hit me by now :D
I can probably gradually put it together over some time, but really my daily dedication (huge 14 hour days) is done. Maybe if I give this a few days of thought it might end up just being one or two hours of code.
Lets approach this the right way though - today its an extended license...tomorrow its a sell-the-rights-option... not to mention the new concepts that might eventually come along as well.
If your up for it, think up a simple but dynamic option so the user can set their own custom license.
Example: Our custom option is actually a blank field. What you call that field ends up being the license name. Along with that field is a LINK field that links to your custom verbage. A 3rd field gives some extra options: Perhaps a few of which - 1 deactivate after purchase... 2 ...whatever.
The idea is that when people dream up a need they can just utilize some custom options to organize it.
So in a nutshell if you can use your experience in this business to anticipate the needs people will have, then build a dynamic option on it, it will probably save lots of work making a custom option for each request.
Taking it a step further...maybe somebody sells a print? I dunno...an option that encompasses this.
So what your doing is your building a sort of simple tree of generic options that can be assigned names, values, and functions, serving as many needs as possible.
I like to work one time - the right way - to save future work. Put your minds together :D
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Creating a license which can be customized by the users is a very good idea I think. But probably I'm not the right one to code it, because my knowledge about php is quite low. To be honest: you can't even call it knowledge ;D I fear I would screw up something :-\ Perhaps it is the last thing you want to do before your summer break, Leo? :D
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I don't know what I'm doing either, so don't worry.
Before summer break?
Its always fun to make code, but my fear is generally with everything I implement there is that many more bugs to watch for after. Let me sleep on it (along with the sick fam) and get back to you. For a fact though I could gradually get something together on my nighttimes.
Tonight I'm fixing a few crucial bugs (like the random-user-save-data-wipe) and such. Doing this on the 45 mins I have free :D
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Who is tuned in? In my time I have tonight I want to re-inspect the "can't add network member" bug - if there is one.
To the best of my knowledge this only happens at 9? (might have been a "<=" problem, where I just did "<" ) or is there something else?
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Before summer break?
Didn't you write that you would like to enjoy summer and take a break? I would be glad if I understood you wrong ;D
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I can be arond shortly I do have ten network members at present last couple had to add using symbio cards only, typing in did not work, sky is a good word to test if working , some time out sometimes and don't show
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@jsfotoGenerally its like this:
I'm going to fix all the BIG stuff (it would be unfair to leave you with crucial problems...) but as regards to other "we'd like to have" things, a break is needed especially since the family needs me during the summer. Its been that way since I entered this business.
Lets address the last biggies;
- I seem to see the theme "echoing" an install. Like 4 emails. Deployments AT symbiostock is notified of new installs and upgrades. Are you guys seeing problems? This might be related to the infinite loop one of you experienced trying to turn on the theme. Please let me know.
- Cidepix seems to have a very deeply hidden and deadly bug under the flesh of his site...eating up emails before they are sent. Anyone else experiencing this? You go-daddy-ers? I don't even know where to start on this because its just him... as far as I know.
- Please tell me in detail the conditions under which you have problems adding people to network. Include browser info and errors. With my head in a tizzy sometimes I need to be spoonfed the details.
Also regarding image sizes, it appears some of you will be capped at a certain point (seems to be 5000px or 6000px range), or certain filesizes...hard to say exactly because everyone's conditions are different. But random crashes with HUGE files will be the norm. I'll try to make a good post on every possible way to work around this.
The more you can give me for details in the next few posts the better I can finish these things in the next few days.
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Leo - I don't know if it is related to Cidepix's other problems but:
I do my search for sky of my ten network members. Currently Cidepix does not load, just goes round and round till it times out (?) If I click on the link to his Author Page it does not show. It does not default to the front page as mine and Steve (backyard) did but has a site not found page.
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I'm pretty sure he reverted to the previous version, so network results won't work at this point. Another possibility (rare, but possible) is that paypal is htting a barrier with his IPN script, and the update never happens. But still would not explain email problems.
He has the credit of discovering my most difficult "unique" problem yet simply because I can't duplicate it and I can't for the life of me figure out where it could even start... !!! I need to give him a giant "bug" trophy, that looks like a Zerg ...
This one's for you Cidepix! The most deadly bug to date:
(http://media.blizzard.com/sc2/media/artwork/unit_zerg_infestery-large.jpg)
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Yes I reverted back to the previous version for now...
Wish I never had to discover this strange bug.. great artwork btw..
you deserve all the credit for SY..
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I will update to the latest version now because version 1 is also not working anymore..
whatever happened during update, it is no longer working without disabling SYMBIOSTOCK - Emails and Notifications plugin..
once I disable that, wordpress default system sends the password email, but of course not the purchase confirmation..
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I'm still hoping to find it the bug so don't worry also you know its with a lot of help as far back as the logo and other huge contributions beta tester's etc.
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I will update to the latest version now because version 1 is also not working anymore..
whatever happened during update, it is no longer working without disabling SYMBIOSTOCK - Emails and Notifications plugin..
once I disable that, wordpress default system sends the password email, but of course not the purchase confirmation..
that might be a good lead will check tomorrow night
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thanks Leo..
am I really the only one with weird google chrome bug?
maybe this is related to my email bug?
(http://imageshack.us/a/img15/1397/chromebugs.jpg)
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
interesting.. I will check on another computer..
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
I am afraid I will have to disagree here..
I installed a fresh chrome browser on a totally new computer (windows vista) and I can not see the "Pay Now" text or the other text beside "/"
ps: I can see it on chrome (android)
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Leo, thank you for the fixed, I updated to version 2.3.9, user profile problem solved.
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
I created an account on your site.. here is what I found out:
1- your password email goes to junk mail folder.. (at least it is being sent unlike mine :) )
2- I can not see "Pay now" text on your site either.. below is a screen shot..
3- I can confirm that it is not "only" my site.. it is a general bug for symbiostock.. this is the way it looks on chrome (windows vista)
(http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9465/ajottechrome.jpg)
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
I am afraid I will have to disagree here..
I installed a fresh chrome browser on a totally new computer (windows vista) and I can not see the "Pay Now" text or the other text beside "/"
ps: I can see it on chrome (android)
Hi cidepix,
I just register an account and try, I can see the "pay now" button at my chrome, but I am using window 7
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Chrome shows "Pay now" in your site and in mine. I don't now how about that "/" thing, because I didn't buy anything :)
I am afraid I will have to disagree here..
I installed a fresh chrome browser on a totally new computer (windows vista) and I can not see the "Pay Now" text or the other text beside "/"
ps: I can see it on chrome (android)
Hi cidepix,
I just register an account and try, I can see the "pay now" button at my chrome, but I am using window 7
pretty sure it is a vista thing.. hopefully another vista user can confirm..
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My chrome is on Windows 7 too and shows "Pay Now". I'll try on XP.
Update, Win XP and fresh Chrome installed:
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That is probably what Leo was talking about earlier then - I suggested he make a test purchase (for which I would have refunded him) from my site so he could do a real test and he asked what I had changed so I took the css edits out, which I have put back after seeing this, at the time I did not have a clue what he was talking about and as he sounded as if he was joining the rest of his family in their illness did not like to ask for explanation.
On my and Cidepix site I can see the "pay now" on the cart button in both Chrome and Firefox (Win 7) and whatever browser my tablet uses.
(http://www.kerioak.com/TP/cart.jpg)
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I have found this
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-to-32-visual-editor-buttons-missing (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-to-32-visual-editor-buttons-missing)
It seems various people have had this problem and their are various solutions but not all fix everyone's problems so it finishes off by telling people to start their own threads with their particular problem
Might give a start on finding a solution?
I realise you don't use Mac but here is another one
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-331-and-the-missing-visual-editor (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-331-and-the-missing-visual-editor)
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Gonna close this thread since I just have a few things left to address. I'd hate for people to post here and not get a response from me. Instead please contact leo [at] symbiostock dot com
Also on a closing note for the summer, it might be a good time to focus on expanding the network, since traffic seems to increase with network size (ie, the joined efforts, seo, with its unique network is becoming a successful model). Wrote a closing post on it:
http://www.symbiostock.com/confirmed-the-symbiostocks-network-creates-traffic/ (http://www.symbiostock.com/confirmed-the-symbiostocks-network-creates-traffic/)