1.3.7 premium plugin batch editor changes?

In the thread where we talked about this bug last year, several other people saw exactly the same thing, so I know it isn’t just my site.

I have two licenses – standard and extended (of the new license type). I would select a category of images in the batch editor and then go to Settings and whatever dialog to select those two licenses and which one was the default (so you clicked the box that said edit specific items and then the two licenses and the default box for Standard license.

Then submit that. You get the two licenses added but all the sizes for the images in that category are the max (5616 on the long edge for most of my images) – blog, small, medium and large keep their prices but their image sizes get changed to the original image size.

I was able to fix this (once I noticed it) by going back to the batch editor and making changes to the blog, small and medium sizes (and thankfully, the original sizes which vary were not homogenized by the bug).

This wiped out my licenses (which it shouldn’t have as I wasn’t checking the boxes for changing licenses) but I’d rather not be selling a full size image at a blog price than offer an extended license.

@leo wrote:

PE – if things are set up you should be able to go through each page of your portfolio, select all, and generate previews. Having an option to create PE previews on-upload would be something I could implement.

Honestly, this is at best just a workaround.

But I did set my images per page to 100 – which gives me 18 pages to work through to create the promo previews – today. And later if I need to update it, I have to keep track of where I stopped last time to know what to update.

This is slow, error prone and manual.

After doing 3 pages (300 images) I thought I’d check to see that there were 300 new files somewhere before going on. I found the files in the symbiostock_rf directory in the form xxxx_promo.jpg where xxxx is the image number.

There are 293 files with a promo suffix, not 300. I have no idea why that is or which images aren’t included. I get a message after each page “100 images reprocessed”. At first I thought I’d selected the wrong option and chosen to reprocess my watermarked previews, but as the promo files are there, I think it’s just the wrong message given on completion.

I’m not going to worry about the missing files because this is just a test, but I’m trying to illustrate that this isn’t really a workable approach if you have a large portfolio, will be adding more images over time, and care that all your images get over to the marketer. I have a sheet of notepaper with 1 to 18 marked on it and I’m crossing off as each page completes – there’s no way to know what you did in the event that I’m interrupted (for whatever reason) in the middle of doing this. It’d be nice to have some way of knowing without writing on a piece of paper…

I’ll let you know once I get this all connected up with PicturEngine

Leo, without some sort of undo, why would I want to remove a keyword from all images? That’s a big ask.

I’d do it on my test site (which doesn’t have any images but I could easily upload a handful) with your permission to use the premium plugin there (it’s not live). That way it’d be easier to track with some obvious bogus keywords on images just to see if they get zapped.