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Ha, yeah I always had something to suggest (‘harass you with’) in the early days 🙂

Look forward to the SEO awesomeness of the new Symbio 🙂

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Looks good! Really glad to see all these updates Leo, keep up the great work!

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Great job Anita and Joanne!

I can relate to the incredibly long dry spell, my sales dried up months ago, after which I spent time SEO’ing a couple of hundred images, but with no luck. Hopefully things will improve.

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@klsbear wrote:

@leo wrote:

This general stuff is good enough. The refined version is going to be much quicker and prettier…this stuff here is just helping me to know what I can scrap that nobody will miss.

If it’s not too much to ask, would you be willing to mention a few of the features you’re considering for the scrap heap? It may be that something is so comfortable and natural that we may not be considering it a feature.

I like the Latest Images, Featured Images and Similar Images options but it would be nice to have an easy way to change the number of images shown.

I’ll give it some thought and add more to the list as they come to mind.

Yep, safe bet is to tell us whats on the chopping block, and then gather feedback. There will always be someone who misses something!

I’m really glad you are focusing on speed and looks. I think they are the two biggest areas of concern overall. Otherwise Symbio seems to be pretty good these days.

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Batch editor with item specific edits – awesome!
Network search
Filtered keywords
image sitemap XML
cart manager
included widgets

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Could remove dublin core
Remove auto-create of categories on theme install (or add popup window “yes?/No?”)
Remove big grey Symbio box in the Network page template : http://thpstockphotos.com/symbiostock-network-directory/

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Yes, can register fine, but the password that is emailed is totally different to what is entered.

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So after a bit over a month, I think it is safe to say that removing the date from all image pages did little. I saw a few images creep up a page or two in Google, but others didn’t move or even dropped.

That being said, my site SERP is terrible for normal google searches, but generally brilliant for google image searches – of which date I think has little relevance.

So in short, for me at least I think the experiment showed that having the date reflected on the page (and thus in SERP) doesn’t have a highly negative impact, but maybe a very, very minor one.

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Congrats!

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Just wanted to highlight another error that is showing up in my Bluehhost error logs:

[07-Apr-2014 18:28:11 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 18:28:11 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 18:33:58 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 18:33:59 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 18:34:15 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 18:34:15 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 18:38:28 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 18:38:28 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:23:25 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:23:25 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:24:12 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:24:12 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:28:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:28:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:28:29 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:28:29 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:33:05 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:33:05 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:33:12 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:33:12 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:37:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:37:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 20:40:38 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 20:40:38 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 21:44:55 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 21:44:55 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 23:39:53 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 23:39:53 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25
[07-Apr-2014 23:40:51 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘width’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 24
[07-Apr-2014 23:40:51 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘height’ in /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/image.php on line 25

This has been happening for weeks (at least) so is NOT a result of the latest upgrade.

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Sounds exciting Leo, can’t wait!

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@leo wrote:

THP had actually trouble-shot this a while ago. Also AJT had made a small revision. I can’t take much credit for this!

We’ve shut down the analytics system for now (sorry cascoly!) since one of the history-logging queries is a little resource-heavy.

Before I send out a mass-email, please try this out and let me know how it works for you. I’ll be on it first thing tomorrow to follow up.

Thanks guys, as always your patience and dedication to our project is appreciated.

You may have covered this in what you just wrote above, but could you please provide a bullet point list of changes made in this (and all upcoming) updates by any chance Leo? Perhaps this update is just with the code removed that I had already removed, but it would be nice to know a bit more clearly what changes are made, to help us decide to upgrade.
Cheers. Oh and GREAT to hear from you again Leo, love having you back in the forums a bit 🙂

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By the way, this fix doesn’t in any way (as far as I am aware at least!) fix those PHP errors that I reported at the start of this thread. They still need to be looked into, especially all those cURL references.

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@joannsnover wrote:

So that made a huge difference. Right before I made the change

And 50 minutes later

I don’t know why the numbers for earlier 15 minute segments don’t match up, but the bottom line is that the graph is now quiet (and I did do some searches and accessed images on the site during that time).

I guess this has been going on since analytics were introduced? When the fixes are made to this, I’d really like to see an on-off switch – not just for public access but for the whole process of gathering data. Even when the current bug is fixed, there may be future changes to server or usage of the sites that cause analytics to impact performance. The ability to quickly turn the whole thing on and off will allow us to simply see whether or not that’s the performance problem without tinkering with the code.

Thanks guys, I am REALLY glad the fix worked and that it has helped you all too. My throttling now is 29 seconds in the last 24 hours – compared to over 23 hours out of 24 hours!!! HUGE HUGE HUGE difference in site performance.

I totally agree with the bolded part above – an OFF switch is essential. This analytics stuff is way too resource intensive for some servers at the moment.

As for the question of what repercussions turning this part of the code off will have the answer is yes, there will be a downside. What the code effectively does is delete any analytics data older than 60 days. So with it commented out, it won’t do that. Thus the database keeps growing. So what my dev friend suggested (which is pretty easy) is to run the SQL commands (i.e.: That code I pasted in) once a week or two to clean out the old records. To do this, go to PHPMyAdmin under the Bluehost control panel. In the left hand column select your database (make sure its the right one, you may have to expand the tree to look at it). Then with that database selected, click the tab across the top that says SQL. Paste in ONE of the two commands commented out at a time and hit go. If you get an error (as I did), delete the “;” from the end of the command, and type it in again – don’t know why but that fixes it. Then run the second command you commented out. This will then clean up your old analytics data, as Leo intended it.

Its so nice to have a fast, functioning site again 🙂

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Leo – I just had another developer friend of mine look at my site, which has been getting throttled for 60 seconds every minute (yep, the whole time) for a while now, and is barely functioning.

He found that this code is getting run every second or so…

DELETE FROM cef_ss_analytics_keyword_performance

WHERE time < UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(),

INTERVAL 60 DAY));



DELETE FROM cef_ss_analytics_history

WHERE time < UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(),

INTERVAL 60 DAY));

Coming from /home2/thpstock/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/analytics.php

line 337

It seems that every time a page gets hit it runs that code, creating long queries. My site had up to 7 or 8 of those queries running at any given time, some taking up to 30+ seconds to complete!

He has commented out this code for now, and my site is speedy once again. It seems there is a serious bug here that needs addressing asap. Basically any long process that is causing errors to be logged is associated with SS’s analytics. I really hope you can give an option to turn it off completely, or fix the way it handles these requests.

I hope that makes sense. Cheers.

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