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I can’t answer the placement thing, but you can remove descriptions through the widget (just go to the widget and edit it – there is a checkbox to remove descriptions) and choose the number of items you want (default is 6).
What did you put your price at? They have asked me for mine and I’m not sure what to put.
This was an issue relating to your server having extra security where it prevented access to your website without a declared user agent. This has been made compatible with it, as has the Artist Network submission form.
I’ll add the marker option and the color customization options to Symbiostock settings so you can customize it once it is updates. Thanks for the code – I’ll implement a variation of it on the final build.
Hi Monica,
First thing’s first – check if you have Imagick installed. This is done via your Symbiostock > Settings page. Scroll to the bottom.
If you don’t have Imagick installed, then your system is using the GD library. It is then very likely that if the product is being added to the database but no image is being added that your server is running out of memory when the image is being created.
As GD uses about 10 times the amount of memory that Imagick does, it’s sometimes hard on servers and some won’t be able to process the image properly. One easy way to check this is to upload a small image to see if that gets parsed correctly.
Can you give that a go and report back?
Thanks.
Good points!
1) You are correct – if you intend to edit files quite regularly, you would have to reference them by their IDs in Symbiostock. So, this is an easy way of finding them – first go to Symbiostock, find the image, and when you click edit the ID should show up in the URL. This is the same ID used to name the file in ss_media. But without this, there is no way to identify an image just through the directory.
2) SEO plays no part because those images are never publicly accessible. When they are watermarked thumbnails are created that are fully SEOd in accordance with the titles of the images in the database.
Regarding #1, this is what I suggest:
1) If you want to edit a file, find the file in Symbiostock and edit it. Then download it to your computer via the download link on the edit page (this is new in 2.0).
2) Edit your file
3) Save your file with the replacement filename as indicated in the same product edit page
4) Reupload this image to the ss_media/new directory, or upload it via the web uploader.
This way, you never have to access ss_media, can edit any image whenever you want, and even your thumbnails will always reflect the most recent copy.
Are you backing stuff up manually or automatically?
rsync should do a stand up job no matter how big the directory is. I backup directories with 200GB of data daily, so it should really not be of issue.
Unfortunately, I don’t fully understand what the issue is so I can’t offer advice. In my Symbiostock install, for example, I never look in ss_media; I have no reason to. I just back it up along with the rest of the site using rsync.
If those images were added before upgrading to 2.0, the processor will read them automatically eventually. If they were added after 2.0, then there’s another issue. Alternatively, try re-saving them – that should also check for GPS data.
Edit: I see that they were added pre-2.0, so the GPS should show up by re-saving them or just waiting.
Okay, so I’ll add the zoom option as a feature in the next release as well.
For now, you can edit that same file, go to that same area as above and change the ‘zoom’ number from 8 to 14. That shows the museum.
Regarding first issue:
Edit front-product-page.php and change that script reference to reflect:
//maps.google.com/maps/api/js
instead of:
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js
This will be fixed in the next release, thanks for pointing it out. It’s happening because your whole site is SSL.
The map coordinates are working, just not zooming in. I will look into adding additional settings so you can set the zoom percentage, if that is possible with embedded Google maps.
Just saving the product does it automatically if that is enabled. It checks to see if the filename of the thumbnail is the same as the title of the product – if not, it renames. Basically it is built into the saving mechanism automatically now.
The short code does not go in the code editor – you can put that anywhere in WordPress. In a post, in a product, anywhere, and it will show up.
As for the widget placement – I’ll ask Dawn about that. I think I’m going to be adding a lot more widget areas to Express in the future as it seems somewhat limited right now, but in the meantime, using the shortcode and current widget areas should work fine.
Just tinker with it – I’m sure you’ll find something that works.
Appearance > Widgets and you can put it in any of the widget areas.
Alternatively, use the shortcode available on the Symbiostock > Symzio tab.
I haven’t written docs on what all the settings mean yet, but it’s pretty configurable. Maybe someone else can pipe in for a good recommendation on where to put it and how with Symbiostock Express.
After running the command on all your tables, just run:
SHOW TABLE STATUS
This will tell you if they have all converted. You can do it after each command too if you want to be safe and check each one. Again, maybe make a copy of the entire database as a backup in case.
As posted above, it is recommended you convert your entire WordPress database to MyISAM to minimize the overhead created from mixing different types. But thanks for letting me know it fixed it.