Hi Mike, a couple of things to check:

First if you have upgraded to 2.4.9 you will need to the Symbiostock area, and at the bottom of the Network tab check the box for Update public image info and save.

Other things to look at:

1) Under the Wordpress Settings - > Reading, check to make sure you have selected static homepage and chosen the proper page in the drop down for that.

2) On the page you are using for you homepage, check what template you are using (HomePage CTA's works best for putting in the widgets)

Apologies if you've done those already or if I read the question wrong. 

Did you take the search box out of your header when you did your customizations?  if you are goign to use the default search box I'm posting a quick tutorial on the code change to take out the drop down box, it's fairly straight forward.  I'll link in just a bit.

I like your color scheme and the design so far is nice.

You have to add the following code to your child theme's CSS file to make the drop down menu (for blog search) disappear:

#symbiostock_main_search #select_type {
   display: none;
}

Thanks, folks. I was able to fix a few of these issues.

I'm still having a werid issue with the Search box. I was able to use click-click's code to disable the blog search dropdown item. But, whenever I upload a new header.php file to the child theme, it deletes the search bar completely. Even if I do nothing to the header file, just upload an exact duplicate of the file from the main theme.

Does something else need to go into the child theme along with header.php to avoid breaking the child theme header?

Edit: Nevermind. For whatever reason, it appears to be working fine now.

It was the searchform file! I had copied it over to use your PHP method of disabling the blog post search dropdown, and that also fixed the error.

Hmm that's odd, did you try the "Update public image info"?  I know there were a couple of hiccups with the newest version that need that update to run so results show up.

Are you using any kind of caching plug in?

Ok, new problem:

An image search says "Results: 5" but doesn't show the images.

Anyone seen a problem like this before?

first, you need to click on thee box that enables networking;your symbiocard shows it's not set

you also need to generate the network & image files  -- at the bottom of the network page under symbiostock - this lets other programs find your images

also, your blogee price is set to $.05 -- is that what you intended?

You can do that with CSS, it's a bit safer (or proper or whatever ) to do it in the PHP.  Found the post where we worked this out initially:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-technical-support/how-can-i-remove-the-dropdown-in-between-the-search-bar-and-the-search-button/msg313226/#msg313226

The line numbers may be off but it should still work.

Thanks for posting this. I was not aware which version is safer and/or preferred to be used.

I used the CSS solution and have not run into any issues whatsoever. This may be because I was not messing with any php files directly.

Should I still resort to changing the php file instead of using the CSS option? Is the CSS solution more prone to problems?

I'm trying to understand the pros and cons between the CSS way and the php way.

Thanks in advance.

Quote from: cascoly on July 03, 2013, 17:19

also, your blogee price is set to $.05 -- is that what you intended?

That was just for testing.

How can you even see that? I don't have any images set to that size anymore.

that's ok then -- I was looking at your symbiocard.xml file  to see what might be a problem

I can search your site ok now - 'badge' turns up several images

Just checked. It shows the available size options correctly. I still run v2.4.8, though.

However, it reminded me that my preview window is in desperate need of some css polishing. 

Pilens, I was just looking at your site on my tablet, every time I click on a picture to view, it gets a red cross.  If you have no right click enabled it does not play nicely with my tablet

Thanks for checking and telling. I run a "No Right Click Images Plugin". Did the red cross look like image attached?

I've disabled this plugin for now. Could you please check with your tablet again?

I have discovered the answer to this in the last few months but can only give you a non technical answer

The child theme is something you install and activate and make any changes on.  It is related to the main theme but if you make your changes on the child theme you do not lose them everytime you update the parent theme.

You can download one from here http://www.symbiostock.com/download/ - install it the same way as you did the main theme so it is shown as active.

This is a more technical answer - http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/wordpress-child-theme-pros-cons/
The answer is though that yes, you will benefit from having the symbiostock child theme.