{"id":71264,"date":"2015-04-16T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphpaperpress.com\/?p=71264"},"modified":"2015-05-18T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:10:44","slug":"sell-media-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphpaperpress.com\/blog\/sell-media-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Media 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sell Media<\/a>, our free e-commerce photo cart for WordPress, just received\u00a0a major overhaul with a huge list of new features. Here is a brief overview of what’s new in version 2.0:<\/p>\n Now you can\u00a0create image galleries by uploading multiple images to the Sell Media product page. A product entry can either be a single image (as it’s been in all versions before 2.0) or it can contain a gallery of images that share the same pricing and other details. This makes Sell Media incredibly versatile for a variety of different use cases like:<\/p>\n By default, the gallery overview page will look similar to this (depending on your theme of course):<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Each image in the gallery has it’s own page, which looks like this:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n New layout settings (Sell Media -> General -> Layout) allow you to quickly change between a one or two column layout. Below is an example of the one column layout with the purchase info displayed below the image.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These new layouts work with any theme.<\/p>\n Adding and editing galleries is easy and\u00a0intuitive and it blends in with the existing WordPress dashboard experience:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can quickly import entire folders of images\u00a0using our new “import” option. You can either FTP\u00a0entire folders of images into the import folder or export directly from\u00a0Adobe Lightroom using one of their free plugins (lookout for our detailed tutorial next week).\u00a0Here is how it works:<\/p>\n Click the Import Options button on the Sell Media -> Add New page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you haven’t done so already, follow the instructions for adding folders to the import directory in Sell Media. Once your images are on your server, select the folder and click Add Files.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After you click the “Add files” button, your images will start to upload into WordPress, extracting metadata, resizing the images to various sizes and most importantly, protecting your original high resolution file. The original high resolution file is what’s used to generate the sizes that your buyers purchase and download. It’s placed in a directory that isn’t accessible the the web, so your original source files are always protected.<\/p>\n Check out this tutorial on how to import directly from Adobe Lightroom into WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sell Media now supports sales stats and view counts for each product. These new stats show up below the images and options on the Sell Media -> Add\/Edit New page. This is in addition to the\u00a0detailed daily, monthly and yearly sales reports that are available on the Sell Media -> Reports page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n View counter will start counting once you update to version 2.0.<\/p>\n We reengineered the lightbox page to accommodate for galleries. While doing so, we optimized the entire user-experience to make navigating to the lightbox even easier for your customers. Here is how is works:<\/p>\n Your lightbox menu link will show an indicator with the number of items in the lightbox. Lightbox selections are saved in cookies, so your users must have cookies enabled for it to work (99% will).<\/p>\n Now from a customer standpoint, here’s how it works:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The lightbox page will display all items that users have added to their lightbox.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We completely reengineered how Sell Media integrates with themes. Our new approach dramatically improves theme compatibility. In the process, we updated all of our themes built specifically for Sell Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Any keywords that you apply to your images before uploading into Sell Media are automatically extracted and saved. It’s been that way since version 1.0.\u00a0While your customers could search for keywords, they had to search using a different search field. We didn’t like that, so we change it.<\/p>\n The new search in Sell Media 2.0 is incredible smart: It searches the titles of your products, the content of your products and the keywords assigned to any of the product images. Yep!<\/p>\n If you’re using an old outdated extension, we’ll kindly scold you with a small little admin notice until you update. Install the GPP Plugin Updates<\/a> plugin to receive automatic updates to all of your extensions.<\/p>\n All of our extensions<\/a> have been updated to work with the new features in Sell Media 2.0. You can snag them all at once by purchasing the Business Bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n We dramatically simplified the steps required for PayPal integration. Now all you have to do is plug in your PayPal email address and boom, your ready to sell.<\/p>\n If you want to tweak Sell Media to your liking and are good at following technical instructions, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve almost doubled the number of available hooks and filters. These hooks and filters are how all of our extensions tweak Sell Media to add functionality.<\/p>\n\n
Overview of Galleries<\/h2>\n
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Overview of Importing<\/h2>\n
Overview of Sales\u00a0Stats & View Counts<\/h2>\n
Overview of Lightbox<\/h2>\n
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Theme\u00a0Integration<\/h2>\n
Search\u00a0Titles, Content and Keywords<\/h2>\n
Update Notifications<\/h2>\n
Updated\u00a0Extensions<\/h2>\n
Beginner and Developer Friendly<\/h2>\n