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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Symbiostock - Suggestions => Topic started by: Leo Blanchette on June 13, 2013, 15:59
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If you need new features, or custom functionality, or plugins of any sort - request them here.
Please note in most cases the development of the plugin comes at no cost - it will be available for paid download upon completion.
In other cases (unique needs and situations not necessarily shared by most) private plugin development can also be done. You may post suggestions here or contact me leo[at]symbiostock.com.
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My top request at this point would be for an extended license plugin.
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A plug-in that shows sales statistics or sales history would be great!
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Great suggestions. I may combine many of these into an overall premium upgrade.
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Extended license and video option?
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I proper functioning mobile Symbiostock site plugin/theme. I would pay a lot for that.
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I proper functioning mobile Symbiostock site plugin/theme. I would pay a lot for that.
Responsive features are getting improved anyway, but your talking about a theme that is mobile-perfected?
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I proper functioning mobile Symbiostock site plugin/theme. I would pay a lot for that.
Responsive features are getting improved anyway, but your talking about a theme that is mobile-perfected?
Yes, a real m-site. I tried a mobile WP plugin but its not working on the Symbistock part of WP
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I think the smartest thing to do would be to just take all the options the other (paid) packages have and just include them into a premium plugin.
Besides that mention any other perks you might like, that are not currently used by the major (paid) packages, since I may just write these in anyway.
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download expiration?
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My top request at this point would be for an extended license plugin.
And RM.
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A "Translation Ready" plugin. Meaning that every English word of the theme can be easily translated into other languages of choice because they are accessible (and editable) through a list. The image database would need an extension for foreign language metadata. The theme would get a language button where users can switch language easily.
That plugin could even include an online translation tool in the back-end of the SY theme allowing us to automatically translate keywords and descriptions then edit and store translations with image database.
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need to have bulk edit of a selected group of images based on keyword or category, and need to be able to change prices for those -- the way it is now is all or nothing, so basically isn't usable once you have many images, or different types (eg, all zips would b ereset to zip not available)
basically rather than showing all images as it does now, display only those requested in the search (and allow more images displayed per page) and add prices to the editing area when bulk edit is done
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need to have bulk edit of a selected group of images based on keyword or category, and need to be able to change prices for those -- the way it is now is all or nothing, so basically isn't usable once you have many images, or different types (eg, all zips would b ereset to zip not available)
basically rather than showing all images as it does now, display only those requested in the search (and allow more images displayed per page) and add prices to the editing area when bulk edit is done
Thanks a little birdy told me they wanted a plugin that emulated (a certain popular photo selling package)'s admin screen. I will be adding selective / bulk editing features like you suggest, along with a host of other options with it.
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Hi
Can we have a plugin to increase the number of images per page to 100 please?
Also a way of ranking the files so we can send our best sellers to the top of the search rank on our sites. Maybe a tick box to always promote these within the categories or something.
At the moment if you upload your best sellers first they get sent to the bottom of the search rank.
Thanks Mark
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Many of these are good ideas (ranking, controlled amounts per page) and can all be combined into a premium plugin.
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One more thing a proper mobile site. I read an article where sites that don't support mobile will be deranked by google. Therefore a mobile plugin would be useful
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I agree with most ideas here
Extended license plugin
Rights managed plugin
100 images on the portfolio page
Mobile site (very important)
Flexible bulk edit
I would easily pay 50 dollar for a package that includes those :)
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One more thing a proper mobile site. I read an article where sites that don't support mobile will be deranked by google. Therefore a mobile plugin would be useful
If you add Amandas Clean theme child theme, your site will be mobile ready.
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I proper functioning mobile Symbiostock site plugin/theme. I would pay a lot for that.
Responsive features are getting improved anyway, but your talking about a theme that is mobile-perfected?
If google deranks a site because it is not mobile ready, then i think the main theme should be fixed to incorporate that. People shouldnt lose their seo, which is basically what SY is all about, because they dont purchase an extra plugin.
I need to do more research on that and see exactly what mobile ready according to google means. I purchased the Clean Theme and Amanda incorporated css to compensate for mobile viewing and it works great, but does that satisfy googles definition?
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What about a "compare" option so clients can see two (or more) images side by side if they cannot decide from different people, would this be practical?
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I would like a plugin that would give me 100 sales a week. ;)
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I would like a plugin that would give me 100 sales a week. ;)
Seconded - would even buy a few of these ;D
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This is a great post. A good set of dedicated plug in is necessary also to attract more developer.
At this moment the plug in that I really want is an amazonS3 connector. To me is:
1) Time saver. I can set up how many websites I want, and upload the content one time only after that the only thing to do is link the sites and the buckets through a dropdown menù.
2) Bandwidth saver. File stored on amazon decrease bandwidth usage.
3) Hotlink protection. The download expires and the link is valid only a time or for a few hours/day or whatever we want.
No problem to pay for this plug in.
Other things are also said,
-theme responsive, google will demote site non-responsive.
-show more picture per pages
-RM and Extended License
-Dashboard to manage statistic of sales and users.
-Coupon
Minor feature, the ability to show a download counter.
Someday maybe, more payment gateway.
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Forgot to add:
I NEED a "panorama" plugin. Just look at the pitiful thumbs of my panorama shots on my site. The images are huge, such as 3000 by 12000 pixels, but on the thumbs you can't see a thing and even the image pages aren't much better. A plugin that solves these issues would be a definite buy for me.
Another suggestion:
A "magnifier" plugin that allows buyers to examine our images in 1:1 scale would be of some great value.
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This is a great post. A good set of dedicated plug in is necessary also to attract more developer.
At this moment the plug in that I really want is an amazonS3 connector. To me is:
1) Time saver. I can set up how many websites I want, and upload the content one time only after that the only thing to do is link the sites and the buckets through a dropdown menù.
2) Bandwidth saver. File stored on amazon decrease bandwidth usage.
3) Hotlink protection. The download expires and the link is valid only a time or for a few hours/day or whatever we want.
No problem to pay for this plug in.
Other things are also said,
-theme responsive, google will demote site non-responsive.
-show more picture per pages
-RM and Extended License
-Dashboard to manage statistic of sales and users.
-Coupon
Minor feature, the ability to show a download counter.
Someday maybe, more payment gateway.
I think in bold is already existent
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I would like a plugin that would give me 100 sales a week. ;)
No prob. So you just want a plugin that forces your prices down to 25 cents each? Ok, if you insist...
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I looked at the magnifier plug ins but they were magnifying the preview image not the original. I think it would need to be the original that was magnified to show full quality?
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I looked at the magnifier plug ins but they were magnifying the preview image not the original. I think it would need to be the original that was magnified to show full quality?
Precisely. Plus done in a way in that people can't get big previews and steal the image by just pasting two zooms together or something. I think Mostphotos does a good job of this from what I remember, it adds a watermark on the zoom image as well
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This is what I will begin working on soon - combined into a premium upgrade (plugin)
1. Amazon cloud interaction. Not only for file management and storage, but necessary for site migrations which some people will need to do soon.
2. File management admin similar to photo-----'s which you can sort/batch edit for any sort of operation.
3. # of results displayed management in as many areas as possible (from categories, search results, widgets, etc)
4. Custom license and generic options addable to pricing tables. So you can call it "extended license" or "premium download" and various options will allow you to set URL destinations, file downloads, etc. That way I don't have to make a new option for every conceivable purchase type.
5. Custom post types (product types) for Video and MP3...will likely be adaptable and interact with amazon storage as well.
Naturally I'll need some time to do this, but this will finally make this whole venture worth it for me :D In the meantime, I have a few small bugs left to take care of.
Please get people to get involved with Symbiostock in the meantime so I have a crowd to sell this to :D
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The SY crowd is growing with impressive speed already. Be ready for a tsunami of new SY sites when buyers start buying on the SY network in greater numbers. ;D
Seriously, Leo, you did an awesome job and that is the reason for our active SY community. We all see the potential this has. I don't think you should worry about this venture paying you off eventually. At the very least I hope it will ;).
Anyway, count me in for your premium upgrade plugin! 8)
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Does someone know of a working mobile plugin? Mobile is eminent. I already got a few feedbacks my site doesnt look good on mobile devices. I will pay if needed. I just need a plugin that converts the symbiostock site to mobile
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I've put the clean theme on. This solves the mobile search box issue. However, im waiting to see what Leo comes up with.
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Thanks Leo, this is a great announcement to me! Thank you!
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+1 for batch edit
Also some why to network with others, maybe a suggested list. Where you can invite and accept...everyone should be networking to the max.
I'd pay for these :)
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(1) How about ability to sell physical goods?
(2) Password protected gallery to show clients.
(3) The ability to turn off the buying part of the site
Yeah, I know - for my own purposes I would like a hybrid stock site and specialty store.
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@pixart
In wordpress you can set up pages with password. So i.e. you can create in the header the menù clients with nested pages for clients and protect them with password. If I recall right in the wordpress official plugins directory, there are some more advanced plugin to handle this thing.
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Thanks Alberto, I can password galleries on my business site and I thought it must have been built into the theme. So I will look into your suggestion.
I like that SY resizes and watermarks the photos and that you can see a nice thumbnail. I have to do that in PS right now for my client galleries. And my stupid client galleries show only a square portion of the photo right now. Leo's done a lot of things right and could sell this thing to a wide market of Photographers (arent's stock photographers a limited number?). Should have been ready when Smugmug raised their prices this past year, they lost thousands of clients - including me.
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The "Thank you for purchasing your image is here" email. It would be nice to have this formatted instead of everything running into each other, would look "prettier" for client and they might be more likely to read it
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The "Thank you for purchasing your image is here" email. It would be nice to have this formatted instead of everything running into each other, would look "prettier" for client and they might be more likely to read it
Screenshot? You may be seeing a bug.
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Have emailed it, easier :)
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We're now posting three classes of images - RF Budget, RF Premium and RM - and it would be really useful to have saved presets of the entire contents of Author Options.
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Can I add Editorial and Extended Licence options to those + user friendly image management :-)
Sorry just looked at list above, looks like you're already on it!
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What about mass-purchases and discounted collections?
http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/ (http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/)
I need to get this going again...
Would anyone else use these?
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Selling a whole pack of images. Yes, I would use this!
What about mass-purchases and discounted collections?
[url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url] ([url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url])
I need to get this going again...
Would anyone else use these?
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RF Budget, RF Premium, RM, Editorial, Extended License, mass-purchases, discounted collections, whole packs of images,
saved presets of the entire contents of Author Options, user friendly image management, ....
I'd use it all... - and buy a paid plugin for that, of course!
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Mobile
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+1 for the mobile and tablet!
Leo, I will support any useful plugins that you produce.
Maybe post a list of proposed plugins and we can tell you which ones we would buy.
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What about mass-purchases and discounted collections?
[url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url] ([url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url])
I need to get this going again...
Would anyone else use these?
Extended and editorial licences are a much higher priority for me. Buyers will just use the standard licence and use them however they want if they don't see the extended licence option.
But yes I would use a collections option to sell sets of images.
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Minor feature, the ability to show a download counter.
This is (sort of) a by-product of implementing "limited quantity" which is something that I want.
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I'd also like to see an option to sell exclusive rights to an image.
The image would be no longer be available after purchase.
I have several old logo concepts that I'd love to make some money with.
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What about mass-purchases and discounted collections?
[url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url] ([url]http://www.clipartillustration.com/image/collection-of-white-man-character-illustrations-and-clip-art/[/url])
I need to get this going again...
Would anyone else use these?
Would you/could you make this across sites?.
Eg As a site owner you could opt in or out of the scheme (or pay to upgrade to the scheme?)
and people could buy say £75 worth of downloads for £50.00 and spend that at any participating site?
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I have a customer that needs their collection (they had spent good money for it) so I have to make this right away by necessity. I'm going to keep it simple:
You relate a category to an image, and that becomes a collection. Then you can set the price however you want. Upon purchase the files are added to the customer.
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I'd also like to see an option to sell exclusive rights to an image.
The image would be no longer be available after purchase.
I have several old logo concepts that I'd love to make some money with.
You could do that now by negotiating off line via email - you could advertise it through the referral link to a custom info page on your Symbio site.
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Editorial -
I would like to have any image which is part of an "Editorial" category have a short bit of text associated with it explaining that the image cannot be used to sell a product, etc. I can do this manually in the description but that is a clunky workaround.
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Hey there!
This seems to be a huge demand - licensing tweaks. Gonna make a therad on it, related to this.
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I have a customer that needs their collection (they had spent good money for it) so I have to make this right away by necessity. I'm going to keep it simple:
You relate a category to an image, and that becomes a collection. Then you can set the price however you want. Upon purchase the files are added to the customer.
would each collection become a category? how would this display in the category listing?
what about making collection a distinct data type? instead of 'image', a collection would consist of a list of images that can be purchased as a set. A flag in the image record would also show that it's part of a collection and display that on the image page) I have a collections category now, but this would save the hassle of creating separate zips for collections, and more importantly, save space since only one instance of the image is stored.
this could become an important feature of symbio - something lacking in microstock agencies. before ebay banned digital delivery, I had success with selling small collections of images to individuals while individual images didn't do as well
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I don't understand collections - when it shows the box on Leo's site there is no indication of how many images you get for your download or that are in the collection ?
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I don't understand collections - when it shows the box on Leo's site there is no indication of how many images you get for your download or that are in the collection ?
there may be some confusion of terms -- leo's using collection in one place as a category containing indiv images & also as a group -- you're right the 'boxed' collection doesn't show # of images, but the price is also unchanged from indiv, so this may just be a work in progress
i'd see collections as a grouping of indiv images with a discounted price -- user pays one price and gets to download all the images in the collection -- nice feature here is you can set up the collection once, then users can choose which size images they want, so collections can offer different sizes (at different prices) without having to store all those variations online
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My site is whacked right now :D Collections don't work. I have to take down the images like I have to do 1000 other things.
Collections - simple.
1. Make category of images.
2. Go to your "box" image and assign it to be a collection, attributing it to category.
3. When collection sells, all images in that category are added to download area.
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My site is whacked right now :D Collections don't work. I have to take down the images like I have to do 1000 other things.
Collections - simple.
1. Make category of images.
2. Go to your "box" image and assign it to be a collection, attributing it to category.
3. When collection sells, all images in that category are added to download area.
is collection a choice like jpg or zip? does the individual image show which collection(s) it's part of? would be good for selling up - someone sees they can get the collection for not a lot more than a few individual images
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Thanks for reminding me! Yes - thats what I had running before. In fact my whole site was just an excuse to sell collections.
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is collection a choice like jpg or zip?
Sorry - forgot to answer this -
A collection relates a group of images together under one purchase. I sold collections in discount. So when a customer makes a purchase, they have all the images added to their download area.
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RM and Editorial
Mobile Site
Stock Video
Exclusive/Buy-Out Pricing Feature
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is collection a choice like jpg or zip?
Sorry - forgot to answer this -
A collection relates a group of images together under one purchase. I sold collections in discount. So when a customer makes a purchase, they have all the images added to their download area.
ok, how do we make that link between a collection and multiple images? can we do it now, or is something in the next version?
also, how does the collection know which size image to use? some buyers might be satisfioed with blog size, other want large
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Think someone mentioned it, but couldn't see it, so here it is again...
- Extra file size or two (XL, XXL) where you can set them only to show if the image meets the minimum dimensions for each size (that the author sets eg: Author says in the admin section "show the XL option if the file dimensions are greater than 3000x4000 pixels" and "show XXL option if the file dimensions are greater than 4500x4500" - with a separate pricing section for each)
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I'd love to have a plugin that is basically the same as the current "featured images" plugin only I'd like to be able to choose the category. That way I could show a line of images from the category symbiostock featured images and also a selection from another specific category that I've created.
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By cooincidence I've just gotten a similar request to feature exclusive images in the same way. Would you like me to make a widget-plugin that does both? I could get it done in a day. Usual $15.
BTW - All of these plugins will be added to the premium pack :D
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By cooincidence I've just gotten a similar request to feature exclusive images in the same way. Would you like me to make a widget-plugin that does both? I could get it done in a day. Usual $15.
BTW - All of these plugins will be added to the premium pack :D
Sold! I'll take it :)
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RM and Editorial
Mobile Site
Stock Video
Exclusive/Buy-Out Pricing Feature
I have to quote myself to update my wish list.
1. I was able to solve the mobile site problem. Not needed anymore.
2. I actually don't really need the RM specifics since I can modify my license text that way that I don't need to have different licenses.
Remaining wishes are:
1. Very important: a check box in the Edit Image area to mark an image as "Editorial Only" which should prominently be shown on the frontend image page (just like the Exclusive sign)
Also, the release statuses should be shown on the frontend image page.
2. and 3. from my quote above are nice to have in the future and but have certainly not high priority.
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RM and Editorial
Mobile Site
Stock Video
Exclusive/Buy-Out Pricing Feature
I have to quote myself to update my wish list.
1. I was able to solve the mobile site problem. Not needed anymore.
2. I actually don't really need the RM specifics since I can modify my license text that way that I don't need to have different licenses.
Remaining wishes are:
1. Very important: a check box in the Edit Image area to mark an image as "Editorial Only" which should prominently be shown on the frontend image page (just like the Exclusive sign)
Also, the release statuses should be shown on the frontend image page.
2. and 3. from my quote above are nice to have in the future and but have certainly not high priority.
Would you share you mobile fix maybe? I really want to fix my site for mobile.
Thanks.
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Would you share you mobile fix maybe? I really want to fix my site for mobile.
Thanks.
Sure, that's no secret.
I didn't develop a mobile site but re-established the responsiveness of the theme. The SY child theme itself is already a responsive layout theme. The problem was simply that the "Home Page CTAs" template and the "Featured Images Preview Slider" are not responsive.
I just used a different home page template (Home Page Simple) and substituted the Featured Image Slider with a third party Slideshow (Soliloquy), made a few adjustments to the layout and that was it. It is now fully responsive and will automatically adjust to any common screen size.
Please go ahead and try it by resizing your browser window while surfing on your computer or by looking at my site on different devices.
http://picturebreeze.com (http://picturebreeze.com)
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[url]http://picturebreeze.com[/url] ([url]http://picturebreeze.com[/url])
Is it just me or is there something wrong with your site? I get a white screen using above link...
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All of a sudden I'm getting a white screen, too. Thanks for letting me know, I'll check on that.
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That's very strange and right now I have no idea how it happened but somehow an empty "default.html" appeared in my root directory. Deleted it and now we're back to normal.
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Yes, it's working. You got a nice site and great images!
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Yes, it's working. You got a nice site and great images!
Thanks, it'll still take a few weeks to get most of my images up.
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Yes, looks great and it resizes beautifully.
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Additional options for XL and XXL images no point having a 36MP camera if we can't make a little out of it :D
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Which requests have been completed? Can anyone do a sum up of what was requested and what is available now and if its added to an upgrade or paid plugin. That would be much appreciated.
And I would like to add:
Search capable of phrase keywords (compound keywords).
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Anyway, count me in for your premium upgrade plugin! 8)
Same here!
I'm really impressed with how this is going and can hardly wait to get my own site up and running. Just have a few other things to clear off my plate before I dive in.
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Would be good to have an option to sell audio files, could be of interest for many people. Moneybookers payment as well
Laurent
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Probably has been said before but...
Need more rights models, specifically RM.
Need to be able to change the default number of thumbnails visible to go along with the ability of the client to change the number of thumbnails visible.
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Probably has been said before but...
Need more rights models, specifically RM.
Need to be able to change the default number of thumbnails visible to go along with the ability of the client to change the number of thumbnails visible.
+1 to the RM rights model
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Not sure if it has been requested before:
A "loupe" function would be a great feature where potential buyers can check the outstanding quality of our images 1:1. - Some precautions need to be taken, though, to prevent pirates from downloading full size images piece by piece.
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Leo, did you have interest to have a Symbios version for Joomla ? My site is done with Joomla... so I'm just asking :-)
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Not sure if it has been requested before:
A "loupe" function would be a great feature where potential buyers can check the outstanding quality of our images 1:1.
+1
Very good request. That should help building trust.
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1. Magnifier (The client must be able to see the quality of image at 100%) type that one Fotolia has would be perfect.
2. Than is a must now that we have the possibility to add RM licence the integration of the RM price calculator (that one Alamy has). Without that we cannot sell RM.
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automatic invoice pdf per email to customer. Possibility for paying via invoice for registered/approved customers.
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A payment module for https://www.payza.com/ (https://www.payza.com/) .