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Dec 20

Add-on for Shutterstock updated to 0.29b

Some of You may already noticed the latest update of the SS SiteBoost tool. I always try to put information on the forums and after I get a positive response I post it on my blogs. That’s the way 0.29 got updated to B and C is waiting for the release.

Christmas and the New Year will surely stop me from releasing the 0.3 version. I planned  more useful features for it than just fixes and tweaks.  If that would be 100% my project I could add more stable features since the beginning and  without the stability of Shutterstock site HTML code (they can change anything anytime)  I need always to measure features vs. time ading new features and carefully search for the changes which isn’t to creative and pretty boring.

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The funny part was that the new SS layout showed up one day after I have released the 0.28, when they didn’t change anything since years…

What’s new in 0.29b then? … it is a next maintenance release due the Shutterstock layout changes:

- Fixed Image Previews problems – they was too large on some pages
- Fixed Image Stats – there was problems with SS source data availability  and storing data
- Many visual and interface ergonomy fixes (Forum shortcut menu, Quick Edit is back  on Home Page thumbnails), improved several cross-browser compatibility issues and round corners got fixed – just switched to CSS3 and removed the releated plugin (unavailable only in IE 8 and below)

Before  Christmas I should release the 0.29c because there are few another issues found – it will be again only a mainenance release (altough I strongly suggest to use always the newest version).

If You have found any bugs or got some ideas, please comment anywhere the SSSB is announced. Here, on its home page,  on forums or message me on  Twitter.

Mar 19

WordPress RSS Images plugin correction – ‘Submitter Galleries Now Available as RSS Feeds’

Tip For Shutterstock

If anyone tries to use  the RSS-image-widget in WordPress, there is a need to change some code to avoid errors with titles using some special chars. Standard code uses onyly the ? char as restricted.Then replace this line or comment it like i did with //

//$image = str_replace(“?”, ”, htmlspecialchars($item->get_title()).’_’.$instance['width'].’x’.$instance['height'] .’.jpg’);

to

$_replace = “/[\?:\/\/,]/”;
$_set_title = preg_replace($_replace, ”, htmlspecialchars($item->get_title()));
$image = $_set_title.’_’.$instance['width'].’x’.$instance['height'] .’.jpg’;

And it works fine.

via submit.shutterstock.com

Yes, i had to change some code in this WordPress plugin (RSS Images) to work, You can see it in action at my polish blog about microstock, at the bottom, right side panel.

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