Author Topic: Symbiostock Blogs (Read 13346 times)

cathyslife · « **on:** July 11, 2013, 20:53 »

I would really like to visit other peoples sites that have blogs and leave comments, etc. I thought maybe we could list urls to blog pages on SY members' sites.

I will start. Feel free to leave comments, links, etc.

http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/blog/

grsphoto · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2013, 22:04 »

Comments always welcome

The lazy Photographer http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/

Imagenomad · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2013, 00:29 »

Good idea.

http://stockphotology.com/blog/

Give me another day or two though...

Kerioak~Christine · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2013, 01:25 »

Good idea, mine is
stockimages.kerioak.com

Modified - thanks Cathy for the heads up.

Ron · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2013, 03:53 »

http://semmickphoto.com/blog/

picture5469 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2013, 05:30 »

http://www.picture5479.com/blog/

sc · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2013, 08:16 »

http://softlightstock.com/blog/

farbled · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2013, 10:12 »

I accidentally deleted my blog (photomining.com) when I moved the domain over to Bluehost this week. If I can figure out how to re-implement it I'll get it back up and running soon....

steheap · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2013, 19:01 »

And mine - I'll check out these other ones as well.

Steve

http://www.backyardsilver.com/2013/07/selling-stock-photos-through-your-own-personal-website/

cathyslife · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2013, 07:41 »

Quote from: Tinny on July 12, 2013, 01:25

Good idea, mine is
http://stockimages.kerioak.com com/blog

Christine, your link above is messed up. Or did you mean for it to be that way?

cathyslife · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2013, 08:05 »

I made a folder to drag weblocs of all your blogs into, so that every week I can go through and post a comment. I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment. Right now, there are only 7 posts in this thread. If everyone in the SY network posted a link to their blog, it will already be a large amount. And growing fast.

You, of course, can do whatever you like for your blog page. But I did want to mention that the SY theme allows for moderation of all comments, if you like. This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts. I understand why you would want to capture login data. Are there other advantages to requiring login that I might be missing?

alberto · « **Reply #11 on:** July 14, 2013, 08:19 »

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 07:41

Quote from: Tinny on July 12, 2013, 01:25
Good idea, mine is
http://stockimages.kerioak.com com/blog

Christine, your link above is messed up. Or did you mean for it to be that way?

The link is http://stockimages.kerioak.com/blog

steheap · « **Reply #12 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:15 »

Quote

This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts.

Thanks for your comment on my blog, Cathy. I don't require login, but I do moderate each post. I have Akismet running which weeds out 90% of the spam posts really effectively, and so the ones I see are almost always valid posts. I just approve them and they are online.

Steve

Ron · « **Reply #13 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:19 »

Quote from: steheap on July 14, 2013, 09:15

Quote
This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts.

Thanks for your comment on my blog, Cathy. I don't require login, but I do moderate each post. I have Akismet running which weeds out 90% of the spam posts really effectively, and so the ones I see are almost always valid posts. I just approve them and they are online.

Steve

I have the same approach

cathyslife · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:32 »

same here.

grsphoto · « **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:10 »

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 08:05

I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment.

I was going to make a similar comment... then I check my own settings.

Whoops. I am one of the people I was going to comment about

$:-\$

For those who want to change this.

Settings>Disscussion settings
Other comment settings Unclick User must be registered and logged in to comment

Comment away
http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/

klsbear · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:21 »

I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme. Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

cathyslife · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:31 »

Quote from: klsbear on July 14, 2013, 10:21

I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme. Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

I don't think you have comments turned on. Go to Settings>Discussion and go through the settings there. Also Settings>Reading, there are a few settings there at the top. Be sure to define your Blog page as your posts page.

EmberMike · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:43 »

I ended up not wanting to keep a blog on my Symbiostock site, but I do keep one on my other similarly-named site. Matter of fact my other site has become pretty much just a blog, and a small portfolio of stock and other design work.

Both links are in my signature.

sc · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:47 »

Ok, also fixed my site so you don't need to register to comment.

Steve

EmberMike · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:51 »

Allowing open commenting in a WordPress system will undoubtedly result in comment spam. I'd highly recommend getting some sort of comment spam plugin or switching your commenting system to Disqus to cut down on spam. I use Disqus and get almost zero spam comments. Before that, I was spending a lot of time moderating comment spam.

klsbear · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2013, 10:57 »

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 10:31

Quote from: klsbear on July 14, 2013, 10:21
I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme. Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

I don't think you have comments turned on. Go to Settings>Discussion and go through the settings there. Also Settings>Reading, there are a few settings there at the top. Be sure to define your Blog page as your posts page.

Thanks for the notice Cathy. That was a tricky one to track down. I had the settings and discussion info correct and in editing the post itself it seemed like Comments were on. I finally found in the view Posts/Quick Edits view the "allow comments" box was not checked to allow comments. I probably missed the check box when writing the original post and the Quick Edits view seemed to be the only place to correct that.

klsbear · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2013, 11:01 »

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 08:05

I made a folder to drag weblocs of all your blogs into, so that every week I can go through and post a comment. I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment. Right now, there are only 7 posts in this thread. If everyone in the SY network posted a link to their blog, it will already be a large amount. And growing fast.

You, of course, can do whatever you like for your blog page. But I did want to mention that the SY theme allows for moderation of all comments, if you like. This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts. I understand why you would want to capture login data. Are there other advantages to requiring login that I might be missing?

I'm entering all the blog addresses into a Symbiostock folder in my Feedily Reader so it automatically updates when new blog entries are posted. I'm not a guru when it comes to SEO but it seems like site traffic plays a role so I figure having subscribers that cause Feedily to reach out regularly to link in and out should be a good thing. I've added my own site to my reader too just for that reason but if someone has a good argument against using a reader like Feedily I'd be open to changing things.

cathyslife · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2013, 11:01 »

Quote from: EmberMike on July 14, 2013, 10:51

Allowing open commenting in a WordPress system will undoubtedly result in comment spam. I'd highly recommend getting some sort of comment spam plugin or switching your commenting system to Disqus to cut down on spam. I use Disqus and get almost zero spam comments. Before that, I was spending a lot of time moderating comment spam.

I already had an Akismet account, so I just re-activated that. Nice sites, by the way.

Imagenomad · « **Reply #24 on:** July 15, 2013, 08:30 »

OK, removed the need for a login, enabled comments and just posted a freshly minted entry.

http://stockphotology.com/blog/

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