Stamp linkable author field from metadata

Hi there,

Welcome aboard!

Yes, it is possible, but Symbiostock has no categorization as such. Basically you want a new taxonomy that will link your media together via author – IMO that would be quite hard to implement properly.

The easiest way I can think of is to use the keyword/tag field in the same capacity. Basically add the author’s name to the tag of each image they create, then link to that search term in the image’s description. That way you don’t have to code anything new yourself, and it should work reasonably well.

As for pulling it from the metadata, you can do this using the custom metadata mechanism that Symbiostock provides.

Him thanks for the feedback.

I’ve added “Author” in the custom metadata field in symbiostock settings. Now I’m trying to modify the front_product_page.php code adding :

<div class=“Author”><span class=”ss_product_Author”>
<?php print (get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ss_exif_Author’, true)); ?></span></div>

after the inclusions part,
but I’m not getting any results .

Any suggestion?

the page in question is: https://www.refimages.com/prodotto/test-titolo-documento-descrizione-tab-e-iptc-4/

Have you enabled the re-reading of metadata from the image? Once you add the custom metadata field you need Symbiostock to re-read the metadata from the image.

Also ensure that the ‘Author’ field is the exact name for the field in question. Once that’s done it should work.

Let me know.

Or just try uploading a new image that has the Author field filled in and it should work.

Hi,
thanks again for your feedback, really appreciate.

So, I tried both solutions: I’ve enabled the re-reading of the metadata, but still nothing showing. So I uploaded a new test image with the author field filled out but still nothing showing up.

Now I’m trying with a different exif field but nothing showing up, so I’m thinking the problem could be in the code I added in the front_product_page.php .

Should add just this code:
div class=“Author”><span class=”ss_product_Author”>
<?php print (get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ss_exif_Author’, true)); ?></span></div>

could last? Or I got to modify something else in the code? I’m a “sunday programmer ” so surely I’m doing something wrong…

https://www.refimages.com/prodotto/test-titolo-documento-descrizione-tab-e-iptc-11/

Your code looks fine from what I can tell. The only thing I can think of is that the Author field is not named exactly that, or the image does not have it on there.

If you want, go to the symbiostock support forums and send me a PM with your control panel’s login info. I’ll get in there and see what’s going on.

Good to know that I’m not too bad as programmer.
So, I thought the same of you about the author field name and i re-checked: it’s the right name. So I tried to add different fields: DateCreated, XPAuthor, Artist, ModifyDate… Any of them gave me results.

I wrote you a PM in the symbiostock forum, I really hope you can help me.
Thanks again