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Hey, Shelma, thanks for that tip!
I’m not exactly a WP beginner, but I can still learn stuff about it so I signed up for the newsletter. Also just installed the Floating Social Bar (although I have it stationary at present).
You’re right: it’s simple and easy to add that nice touch.
Thanks again.
Me too, Ruth. It was great being able to specify which images would show up at the top in a search. Without that, the user’s experience is mostly a mish-mash that the site owner has no control over.
Christine, I don’t remember any discussion of this at all. But… there was a month when I was away and not paying much attention.
If the feature has officially disappeared, we don’t need the option in our editing page to choose a ranking. It is still there, so hard to believe is not being supported.
I just registered on your site, then logged out, and was able to log back into the site again using the PW that I specified when I registered. It all happened quickly and easily, without problems or delays.
I’m not sure if that answers your question or not, but it is how your system worked for me.
@shelma1 wrote:
OK, apparently I clicked something accidentally and closed that portion of the editing page. All better now. But my images still show up by age rather than ranking, like yours do.
OK, so we’re seeing the same thing. I have to think others do too.
Anybody else got the same issue? Or is it just us two wild women? 🙂
@shelma1 wrote:
My ability to rank just disappeared a few minutes ago, along with my ability to choose which prices are active or inactive, and my watermarked preview of whatever file I’m editing…a whole section of the editing page is gone.
Yikes! Makes me think I jinxed you. Sure do hope not. Well, now, there are two of us with the same issue.
I’m gonna go check my page to see if I have your other problems.
Edited:
Well, no, it doesn’t seem I have those same other issues. My pricing and viewing of watermarked previews is fine.
And actually, I don’t think your ranking issue is the same as mine. I *can* rank my images, but they don’t turn up grouped that way on search pages. Even images I rank #3 show up at the very top of the page if they’re new. The ranking system just isn’t working for me.
I would really like that too.
It may not be important for some kind of work, but for wildlife photography (where showing off a critter’s sharp-sharp eyes is all important) it really is.
@ajt wrote:
I was testing partial search (and search only in title/description) in sy.info, but it returned too many odd results 🙂
Maybe finding single words in compound keywords would be useful, I should test it.You’ve done a great job with the search component, ajt. I’m sure we all appreciate your efforts. For sure, i do!
Once Christine’s problem is solved, you moderators can label this thread RESOLVED.
I’m happy! 🙂
@ajt wrote:
Do you have Symbiostock Pro plugin installed? It allows searching for compound keywords.
Yes I do! That’s why I thought I could handle keywords that way.
Do I have to reinstall that after all the WP and SYS upgrades? I haven’t done that, so maybe there’s my problem.
*edit*
Yep, that did the trick! Somehow, my Pro plugin had gotten deactivated. Once I activated it, all 6 of my “greater roadrunner” images turn up in the search results for my site. And so does the Latin term, “Geococcyx californianus”.
Whoppee!! I appreciate simple solutions.
Thanks again, ajt, and also Leo for creating that Pro plugin.
@ajt wrote:
Your site doesn’t show results with compound keywords. Four images have keyword “Greater Roadrunner” and also separate keywords “greater” and “roadrunner” and these four are visible. Two have only “Greater Roadrunner”.
Aha! Thanks for that information, ajt. Now I understand. But…wow!!! I thought our sites were able to search for compound keywords. I’ve been using lots of them, including the 2-word Latin names for all the species in my portfolio.
Obviously, this is fixable if I go back through a thousand images and break up the compounds. Yikes!
So, the global search does bring up compounds. That’s good, but… Is it just my site that does this, or all of them? If it’s just mine, is there a way I can set it up to use compounds? Will it always be this way, or is there a chance that someday all our sites could use compounds like the global search does?
Thanks so much for your help, ajt.
I just did it too. So far, so good.
@tdahl-stock wrote:
Hi All,
I have just been playing around with different tools and was just wondering what y’all think on this heavily stylized image.
Thanks
TimTim, this is exactly the kind of photography I do. Looks like a beautiful image to me… in its “natural” state. So, I’m wondering why you felt the need to play with it in this way?
@cascoly wrote:
depending on how long our Turkey trip ends up being in the spring, for fall we’re looking at Indonesia, India or Santa Fe
Interesting combination of options! You could do worse than Santa Fe. 🙂
As somebody who tried to do what you’re talking about, I’ll just add a warning. In early September, I had 5 categories, dozens of sub categories, and even more dozens of sub-sub categories until suddenly my system didn’t work any more and my entire setup crashed.
I just dug back into the forum to find my thread about this problem. It’s been solved now, with help from others in the group, but only because I accepted the fact that I couldn’t have as many categories and sub categories as I wanted.
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/120/resolved-disappearing-menu-items/
Good luck!
@jsfoto wrote:
Thanks a lot for your help Christine and Martha!
This is what I wrote (only minor changes):
See my photo collections for sets of three or more photos available at a significantly lower price than when licensing separately. These are available in all four sizes (standard or extended license).
Please feel free to contact me, I can create custom sets if you cannot find exactly what you need.That works!
