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Hey guys – just so you know that we are developing a fully automated link exchange system that will be bundled with the base Symbiostock Pro plugin to make all this a lot easier. It will do a lot of automated things like make sure sites are online, only show sites that also have the list showing on their site, and a variety of other things. Based on the success of this thread and its implementation this new addition should help with SEO in a much easier way. It will be a customizable widget that you can just pop into any page on your site and will source directly from Symzio.
One important note about it is it will be sourced transparently via PHP so there will be no Javascript on the front end – this will make the links hard coded and feasibly as valuable as they possibly can be to Google and other search engines.
That should work Walt. It does it systematically so it is possible it is taking some time? Can you give me an example of what license and what the target price should be?
Hey Terry,
No, that is just for vectors. The addon for your needs is likely to be released soon, but is definitely underway.
You can do all sorts of things to each individual install, and it will not reflect in the other. The only exception is adding or deleting media, where the actual content of the folder is altered. In this case, if you add media to the first one, it will not show up in the second, and the second will not be negatively affected.
If, however, you delete one from the first that was added to the second previously, you will get “media not found” warnings eventually and then will have to manually delete those products from your second store.
If you do another DB sync it will override everything in the second store, including styles, settings, everything.
Use this to clone your current site to the new one:
https://github.com/wp-sync-db/wp-sync-db
Then change the media location as you previously did.
However, be aware that if you add or remove any media on either install, it will not reflect in the database of the other one, and you will get very weird broken bugs. So this is only recommended if you want the second WP install to reference the media files but not add/delete any.
You should not be manually running the cron job regardless – it should be in your control panel set on a one minute timer.
Hi guys,
We were getting a lot of issues with this setting due to people getting server problems with it.
With the next update we will add a filter so you can add it to your theme’s functions.php so you can always keep this at a different number. However, for now, if you want, go into tools-cron.php and edit the ‘maxload=1’ line and change the 1 to 20 or so.
Once Symbiostock updates to the new version this will get overwritten but then there will be a new filter added so you can just do it as previously mentioned. When/if you decide to that after the next update, just let me know and I’ll show you the syntax.
Issue has been resolved – there is a tiny syntax issue with the SupplementalCategories reading in Symbiostock which will be fixed in the next release (3.3). Additionally, it will now also read the “Category” metadata field.
The Lite update is very minimal. I believe it was mostly syntax.
Symbiostock is compatible with 4.6. Not yet tested with anything above WooCommerce 2.5.5.
Hi Darren,
Can you PM me your login information so I can take a look? Also ensure that one of the uploaded files you mentioned is already there so I can download it and take a look.
Hey Terry,
Looking into creating an addon for this sort of functionality. Will keep you posted.
Hi Star,
Just so you know, the next version of Symbiostock will have the functionality you are requesting – alternate JPEGs can be uploaded directly with vectors in one go, alternate JPEG metadata can be read and used for the product information. No definite ETA as we are adding a few more features and what not, but should be within about a week.
Hi Roger,
Good to plan it advance. Here are answers to your questions:
1)
http://www.symbiostock.org/docs/ideal-workflow/
2) Symbiostock Pro will watermark everything for you. You can customize your watermark via the Symbiostock > Settings page.
3) Yes. Full, highest resolution possible.
4) JPEG is best.
5) You upload the largest size. Through the Symbiostock > Licensing page you determine the different sizes you want to offer for sale. Symbiostock Pro will automatically resize stuff for customers with no loss of quality.
6) Read this guide thoroughly so you can plan all of your automation prior to uploading, so when you do, you do very little. Go through the Symbiostock settings one by one to ensure everything is as you want it to. I would recommend enabling metadata writing so any changes you make via WordPress will get written into your images as well.
http://www.symbiostock.org/docs/reading-writing-metadata/
Hey Valentin,
Don’t wait for us – as our search fix is based on WooCommerce, if you are able to use a third party plugin in the interim just go for it.
No worries – I will actually add this to the documentation as it is a good example of using the Submitter for more than just submitting directly to agencies. You can use the FTP function to upload all your media files to a backup solution as well, for example.
The good thing about the method I mentioned above is you retain records of what has been submitted where all through Symbiostock, and if you’re editing your metadata within Symbiostock you really don’t need to do anything else as the metadata will get written right into the files themselves.