Coming out of Beta. 1+, 2+ Bug Stomping Thread.

[Leo Blanchette]

When I launch the 2.0+ series, I'd like to have everyone hit the ground running without any problems. 2.0 is vastly different than the sites you are running.

This bug thread is a combination of bugs from the 2.0+ testing version, and the 1+ beta versions you've been using. Please notify me of any bugs you've been dealing with and I'll list them here  to get addressed.

If you'd like to bug-hunt on the testing versions, here are the sites:

http://cascoly-images.com/symbiotest/

www.9livesillustrations.com/arctium/

http://tulip.kerioak.com/

http://ajotte.com/symbiotest/

http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/

http://symbiostock.glennspecht.com/wp/

http://www.photosyouneed.com/

http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/wp-admin/themes.php


Here is a nice update:

This finishes all of the "features" I had to get running for this release. From here on its just bug fixes.

Some things:

• Your site updates your info every hour, and fetches everyone else's symbiocards every hour. Its an easy non-consuming task. This means the whole network will never be more than an hour old!
• Every day your site spiders your friend's network, and populates an extended directory. This could go further than friends-of-friends...instead could go to friends-of-friends-of-friends...but mostly we just wanted to get a working example of it and keep it simple while the network is still small. In fact, going three levels deep might be more than enough for creating a local extended directory. Please keep in mind this feature benefits more than human browsing - its in fact a legitimate and non-spammy backlink directory.
• You can initiate a network scan in your marketing tab. Its fun.
• Networks who have no results for a given keyword do not show up for the party on the results page. Keeps things simple and non-distracting.

]See the new extended network page. This is an example, but could easily contain hundreds of authors:

See the new extended network page. This is an example, but could easily contain hundreds of authors:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network-directory/

Here is the more informative "my network" page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/symbiostock-network/

And here is your author page, in case you missed it:
http://www.clipartillustrations.com/author/leo-blanchette/
Also more updates, for those who may not have been following until how:

• There are now network widgets to show your network associates.
• There are widgets for "latest images" and "featured images" sliders.
• Your network management admin is far far improved.
• Related images are now populated using a special plugin (developed from Symbiostock's forum activity in wp.org)

Plus there must be more stuff that I am not remembering .
But its getting good now.

From here on its just bugs and tweaking. I think we have all the functionality needed, except for a few requests cascoly made for keyword lists and such...
Thanks for testing guys. Big thanks to everyone. I think we're within a few days or so of releasing this officially. Go ahead and bug me with more bugs.



BUGS TO STOMP

Loading old version of jquery, and this hurt people's feelings (and plugins). Fixed

People don't like being CC'd on every message to their friends. Consolidated that.

Search is tweaked. Tweak it back to working order.

Verify that search results cannot generate network errors.

Avatars messed up / page messed up on Tinny's site (Searching animals) must find out what causes this.

Image processing is generating errors due to extensions not being found properly.

IPTC Library is going Nazi on the validation of date-formats. Must remove the over-validation to retain IPTC.

Search looks for separate keywords but not keyword combinations. Fix that.

Networks with no results should be skipped...

Some networks are searched twice. http://quailrunphoto.com/symbiotest/search-images/flowers/

Fix the datasheet bug where re-saving messes up permalink. Plus make it utilize the minipic preview

activating the theme causes a wp-chron job to run...needs/time consuming. Disable that.

Make it so that users cannot accidentally break the watermark by defaulting to the original watermark when paths are wrong.

Users are requesting a "have you read the terms" and "agreed to license" checkbox. Put that in before release.

Version 3.0 - My footer was a dark background, now it's light grey and some text is barely readable.

Version 3.0 - error messages related to image processing or publishing (possibly due to datasheet integration)

Ensure author page doesn't use email addresses in URL due to users not supplying enough info

Verify that adding network members in Chrome browser (either upload or entered) works properly

Crucial (and strange) / rare email bug found on Cidepix website. Solve so it doesn't haunt random people.

Default NA setting needed for releases, instead of "yes" or something.

Set up heavier validation and some code stripping on Symbiocards to make sure they can't do anything bad.

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[Kerioak~Christine]

Uploads work nicely
Searches work and are much faster than in V1
Sales work
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Searches - if I search for animals from tulip.kerioak I can see the logo/avatar for Leo's but no one elses
                if I search for animals from Leo's site I can all the logo's/avatars when network images come up


Symbio cards - how do they update?  I changed the picture and number of images on mine and it shows correctly on my site but not on anyone elses


In my ladybird Symbiostock Networking page - if I click on the "a"'s I get a page not found - is this correct?


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For anyone bug hunting on my tulip.kerioak.com testing site I have made the site as realistic as I can , you just cannot buy images (although if you insist at the prices I have put them at I am always willing to make an exception )


I would still like to see
  time limited downloads
  A database type page of images licenced (date, image, price/size, email address etc plus if we get extended licences then type of licence as well)

Thanks for all your work on this Leo

[ajt]

Search:
When I search for white background, then images with "white" and "background" as separate keywords are found, but no image with "white background" as single keyword.

Cart:
Not bug maybe, but I think that "Pay Now" button could be inactive, when cart is empty

[quailrunphoto]

I noticed that the footer background is white now.  I don't recall if there is a setting to change that.

[Leo Blanchette]

Keep them coming guys. I'll be updating the list to the original post soon. Right now I'm working on a few of the new features in the meantime.

[plrang]

ABOUT http://fotostocki.pl/symbiotest/?s=animal&post_type=image


1. ERRORS below happened after the SITE SEARCH because of manually entered network sites

After I uploaded some symbiocards it works ok
BUT ...

2. no results at my site = network results showing up which shouldn't work this way or should be option to choose

3. I think symbiocard.csv should have the nickname in the file name like symbiocard-amanda.csv

4. SY alows to upload the same card several times

5. +1 for option to set how many results the SEARCH is showing for the symbiote, above the other networkers



Results for "Sky"
Results:

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 48: parser error : Entity 'raquo' not defined in /symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 799

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Imagerion stock images » in /symbiotest/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 799

[quailrunphoto]

When I try to do the update from the Themes menu I get the following:

The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Return to Themes page

I am trying to update to 2.1.4.  from 2.1.3.

David

[Leo Blanchette]

I got that too. Try to toggle your theme with another one (DON'T DELETE unless you have a backup) and then do it. Its a problem with the update site...or how they run the system locally. Not necessarily me .  After you toggle then try the update.

@plrang
Noted on all that stuff. Search is the last thing I will be addressing. I revamped it and there are a few things different on it...I just have to update other functions to work with it. Hence your errors.

Gonna list all your bug reports now - thanks a lot.

[Leo Blanchette]

For anyone bug hunting on my tulip.kerioak.com testing site I have made the site as realistic as I can , you just cannot buy images (although if you insist at the prices I have put them at I am always willing to make an exception )

Great job setting up that pretend site. Its really awesome to experiment with. Very helpful thanks.

[Leo Blanchette]

Boy this was a long day -

There's a bunch of new widgets. Feel free to bug test those as well.

Over and out.

[Kerioak~Christine]

I have added some of the new widgets to my front page - - must remember to put the "skull" further down my network list as it gives me the shivers every time I see it 
(testing site tulip.kerioak.com)

[quailrunphoto]

I have been testing 2.1.5, and am unable to process any images.  They appear to upload correctly, but just disappear after they are processed.

Leo: I downloaded your cvs file and successful installed it into the network.  I like your author page, but I am not sure how to create one for my site.  I created a page titled "Author", but it doesn't really have a format like yours.  I added widgets to the "Author" section of Widgets, but again not sure that is what I am suppose to be doing.

That is all for tonight.

[Kerioak~Christine]

Hi David

You create/edit the author page in the "Users - Profile" section of wordpress

[Kerioak~Christine]

Leo - I know you said to expect a few emails but when I update (have gone to 2.4 and 2.5 this morning) both generated ten identical emails - I received one to tell me that ajotte had upgraded.

Are all our network members receiving emails to say when we have upgraded and we are receiving CC's of each of those?

[ajt]

And I received only one email that you had upgraded, but five identical emails that I had upgraded

[jsfoto]

I just received two mails, saying that I added myself on my test-site photosyouneed.com (what I didn't do  )

[jsfoto]

And this is what I see in the wordpress update area: You have version v2.1.5 installed. Update to 2.1.5. 

[Kerioak~Christine]

2.1.5 - uploading and processing as expected, no problems


Could everyone testing this add some identical keywords to at least one image - say blue, sky or something so we can see how it looks with a search where everyone comes up, at the moment there are not enough images/keywords to test this?

[quailrunphoto]

 jsfoto; I see the same thing on the wordpress update area.  However I am unable to process any images after they upload.  They just disappear from the process screen.

I received a bunch of emails this morning, many look like repeats but I have not gone thru them yet.  I also had a bunch in my spam filter,  Will keep you posted.

David

[quailrunphoto]

Tinny, I updated 4 of my images to include key words; sky, blue.

[Kerioak~Christine]

Thanks David - it is starting to fill up more - http://tulip.kerioak.com/?s=blue+sky&post_type=image

[quailrunphoto]

Haven't had my quota of coffee yet so excuse the dumb question.

Tinny; thanks for the instructions.  I have updated the user profile, but am unsure what the next step is.  I have included widgets in the Author page of the widgets under appearance.  I have created an Author page and published it.  But nothing appears on the Author page when I view it.  I feel like I am missing something.

Thanks.

[jsfoto]

I added blue sky too. I guess it's a good idea to use these two words for testing ...
And please note: I don't have real stock photos on my test site, but only cheesy test photos 

[Kerioak~Christine]

Hi David

Forget about creating an Author page - delete it (for the purposes of this networking exercise).

Leo has set it up so that if we fill in the information in our profiles and save it, it automatically creates an author page.  Now go to the Symbiostock networking page and fill that in with the others who are using V2 (there is a list in post 34 of this page http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-development-area/symbiostock-version-2-0-previews/25/) and either copy and paste them in or go to the sites and collect their symbiocards which can be found under any of the images and upload them.  If you type in the addresses then click on the box underneath the network section (update symbiocards) and save it at the bottom of the page along with the two check boxes there.

I think I have this right, if not no doubt someone will correct me

[quailrunphoto]

Thanks Tinny.  I deleted my existing Author page.  I updated my profile and save it.  I updated the network page with the cards from the web pages of the test users.  That works really nice.

However I still do not see an Author page.  Not sure what I am doing wrong at this point.

Leo: two of the links in the network page are repeated.  See attached.  When I delete the duplicate and save the information the duplicates just come back.  When I delete the duplicates and the originals and save, only the original remains.

PS:  I really like the new speed and feel of this version.