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Hey Geraint,
You should be able to add users and assign them roles this way:
Let me know!
Let me know if you have any other issues. I am doing heavy coding on our development site for the next massive release so I should be around. 🙂
Hey Geraint,
I just successfully used your FTP credentials to upload a picture of a bear which appears to have been parsed correctly. Is it possible your internet connection was interrupted, or some other problem occurred that prevented those transfers from completing on your end?
The first module: Symzio Widget
The first module I am going to be developing and releasing is the Symzio Widget. It will permit you to display images from the Symzio search engine within your Symbiostock site so that other artists can generate sales through your site, and so you can generate sales through theirs.
As the Symzio search engine will be released at a later date, currently the widget will provide direct links to your individual Symbiostock sites, directly to the image. The way it will work is simple. You will just embed the code either directly or as a widget to your WordPress site, and when a search is performed on your site, the widget will retrieve relevant results from across the network to display on your page.
This will enrich your visitor’s experience, support other contributors, and you will likewise receive visitors from all over the place from other contributors’ sites.
Becoming a Symzio Contributor
Symzio will operate, at the administrative level, as a separate entity to Symbiostock. In order to include your images within Symzio, you will have to sign up and apply. This is the first level of quality control we will be implementing to ensure that all Symzio Contributors are legitimate, professional, and are indeed the copyright holders of the images they seek to distribute through it.
Once you are a Symzio Contributor, all of your image maintenance will be performed through your independent Symbiostock site, and Symzio will simply connect to retrieve updates from it. In addition, once you are approved as a Symzio Contributor, you will have access to all future components, including the agency-like search engine that we are developing. Therefore, all sign-up credentials and identification criteria will be applied from the start so that you need not re-apply in the future.
Here are some base requirements relating to becoming a Symzio Contributor:
1) You seek to sell images and/or vectors that you hold copyright ownership of.
2) The quality of your media is at a professional level.
3) You currently have an operational Symbiostock site.
We are not going to implement any strict adherence to a specific type of image as we want Symzio to be as eclectic as possible. If you have shadows, but it appears to be artistically driven, that is fine. If most of your image is out of focus, and this is purposeful, that is fine. Our main purpose is to ensure that you are demonstrating at least some care towards the technical quality of the media you hope to sell alongside your peers and that you are not misrepresenting any aspect of it to customers.
We will have additional terms and conditions associated to becoming a Symzio Contributor available once the signup process opens. There will be benefits imposed on the initial batch of contributors that sign up as a thank you for supporting the system during its early stages.
Finally, there is no cost involved in registering as a Symzio Contributor. All costs relating to it will be through the promotion and sales of images. In the end, our current aim is to provide all we can through Symzio while passing at least 80% of the gross revenue of each sale back to the contributor. This will only apply to payments processed directly through Symzio. If you get sales through one of Symzio’s networking options but the customer purchases directly from your site, you keep 100% of the revenue.
This used to be a built in feature of the previous version of Symbiostock. However, as the new version is running on a completely new engine, we are approaching this carefully so that the joined search results are more well implemented.
Lots of contributors had complaints because there was no quality control, and relevancy was less accurate. For example, if one Symbiostock user has adult images, there was no way of preventing nudity from showing up on other user’s sites, for example, if someone failed to tag their images properly.
To avoid releasing a joint system that becomes unusable quickly, we are planning a more aggressive and long term solution. This is going to be called ‘Symzio’ and will include everyone’s images in a central search engine. We may also implement widgets that you can put on your site that will help promote other people’s relevant images on each other’s sites.
This isn’t live yet, so you cannot do it. So right now, Symbiostock is primarily a way to sell your images independently, and network through the Artist Network until Symzio is launched.
Hi Aitor,
This is a planned inclusion that has not yet been added to the system. Thanks for bringing it up, however, as I will look into seeing how easily this may be implemented across sites (with the option of exclusion).
Thanks Oliver – don’t forget to add your site to our Artist Network, even if it’s currently under development. We want to really grow this Symbiostock feature so that everyone benefits from increased organic exposure:
http://www.symbiostock.org/artist-network-submit/
Edit: 1.3.1 fixes this issue – it should help everyone with non-English dashboards!
Hey Oliver,
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll look into adding a fix for this in our next update. There are still some language compatibility issues that sometimes occur, and this appears to be one of them. For now, are you able to do all your edits in English mode then revert back to German with everything working as expected?
Glad you figured it out. A few people have had this same issue – I will look into adding fallback code in the case that you do not have the fileinfo extension enabled (after PHP 5.3 it’s bundled by default, I believe). Let me know if you have any other questions, and once you get your good looking site online, make sure you submit it to the Artist Network – we’re growing an independent directory of artists so that customers have a one stop way of finding your work:
http://www.symbiostock.org/artist-network-submit/
Don’t forget to submit your site to the Artist Network – we’re trying to grow this so that everyone can benefit from a really large contributor directory:
http://www.symbiostock.org/artist-network-submit/
Right – so right now the default license type is “Commercial” and the other option is “Editorial”. To change it to editorial, you enable that for the product in question.
But your question leads to a possible future feature where you can choose the text that shows up there. I will look into adding this in future releases.
Okay, so by default they are assumed to be commercial. However, if you mark an image as editorial, then it will say editorial there. Both those links will go to your licenses information page.
The main way you differentiate between sizes and the actual license is through the name of the license. So by default, you see ‘Small JPEG’, ‘Medium JPEG’ etc. These are the default licenses that come with Symbiostock. You can delete all of these, edit them, and make your own. You can call them whatever you want.
So this way, you could have:
Normal Small
Normal Medium
Normal Large
Extended Large
Etc.
And then explain what each of these licenses allows your customer to do on the licenses page that is in your pages admin section (automatically created by Symbiostock).
Along with each license name, you can set the maximum size and default price. This gives you maximum flexibility.
Hey Guy,
The license title can only be changed in the front end via your theme. if you change it within Symbiostock, Symbiostock will cease to use it for licensing. This is because wordpress uses tags through their actual slugs for most queries so changing the name could introduce issues.
As for the licensing, it cannot be accomplished the way you are suggesting. The best way to accomplish what you want is to have multiple sizes for one licenses, then multiple sizes for the next license, and so on. This makes it easy to globally price them, etc.
We modeled most of this functionality off the most popular stock photo sites such as Shutterstock and Fotolia.
Don’t worry about the file url and the name – that auto fills. So just change the price, and it will work!
As for coupons: http://docs.woothemes.com/document/coupon-management/