Symbiostock is a free, fully-featured WordPress plugin that works hand in hand with WooCommerce to offer a complete ecommerce platform for you to sell your visual media, whether it be photographs, illustrations, or vectors.
Please note that all support is performed on Symbiostock.org in our forums. Queries in the support forum here may or may not be answered.
Check out the Symbiostock demo site to see Symbiostock in action!
Features include:
- FTP support. Upload all your images via FTP quickly and easily for automated processing of media.
- Imagick & GD Support Use either Imagick or the built in PHP GD library for image processing.
- Cron jobs. Schedule the powerful built in processor to run periodically and minimize your workload. Alternatively, initiate processing on the fly via the administrative interface.
- Automatic thumbnail regeneration. Automatically generates thumbnails as images are processed. Will automatically regenerate all thumbnails on size or watermark changes.
- Powerful watermarking. Create your own watermark or use the default one. Decide how big or small the watermark will be, and what opacity it will have. Completely personalize the way your thumbnails look.
- Transparent PNGs. Sell and demo transparent PNGs at customized sizes, all automatically resized for customers.
- Robust licensing. Create your own licenses or use the built in defaults. Decide the size and type of images provided to the customer.
- Secure downloads. All image downloads are protected, files hidden from public view. Decide how many times, and for how much time, images can be downloaded once purchased.
- Global & Bulk editing. Change image prices individually or globally. Apply licenses individually or globally. Change titles, descriptions, tags in bulk.
- Full metadata processing. Imports all image metadata, including titles, descriptions and keywords directly into your product details.
- Save metadata to images. Automatically save your product details, including titles, descriptions and tags to images. Edit metadata in bulk.
- Automatic publishing. Enable or disable auto-publishing of images that have metadata.
- Professional tagging. Tag media as editorial, or inform customers that you have a signed model release or property release. Mark images that are exclusive to your store so they stand out to customers.
- Simplified interface. Enable an image store oriented interface to simplify your administrative panel.
- Scalable infrastructure. Supports as many or as few images as you choose to sell. No additional overhead created, plugs right into the base WordPress infrastructure.
- Compatible with WooCommerce themes. With an extremely small frontend footprint, Symbiostock is fully compatible with most WooCommerce themes and requires no special configuration or alterations.
As well as:
- Improved related products. Improves heavily on the built in WooCommerce related products algorithm
- Improved quick editing. Focuses the quick edit feature on fields unique to media items, including metadata writing
- Tag searching. Adds functionality for image tags to be included in the base WordPress search engine
And:
- Symzio Network Widget. Syndicate all your images across the entire network of independent Symbiostock sites. A service exclusive to Symbiostock users, this is a powerful promotional tool for all Symbiosotck sites to reach a wider audience.
- Symbiostock Artist Network. Join the Symbiostock Artist Network which showcases photographers, artists and vector designers that all use Symbiostock.
- Extensive documentation. Ever growing online documentation that provides detailed instructions on installing and using Symbiostock, from licensing to media processing.
- Support forums. Large community of supporters to discuss tips and tricks to optimize your use of Symbiostock.
With the option of Symbiostock PLUS:
- Symbiostock PLUS. Pre-installed hosting solution provided from the makers of Symbiostock for those of you that want a quick and easy plug-and-play solution.
- Stock agency submissions. Unlimited and automatic submission of all your media to stock agencies such as Shutterstock and Fotolia.
- Complete video support. Upload videos and sell them from your Symbiostock site. In addition, you can submit and resubmit videos to agencies as much as you need to.
- Premium plugins and themes. Get access to Symbiostock Express, a beautiful media oriented theme from the makers of Symbiostock, as well as a host of other cutting-edge plugins.
- Technical support. Read some of our reviews to see how active the Symbiostock team is in helping all our users with their requests and queries.
- EU VAT Supported. Works to charge correctly, collect evidence, and even allow business customers to be exempted under the new EU VAT regulations.
Constant Innovation Symbiostock is constantly being improved, so keep up to date by joining our forum and introducing yourself.