K-Rate vs. Snapshot theme for WP

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I'm putting together a site where users can submit photos around the theme of the site with a little blurb, and other folks can rate and comment on them. This would also include a forum, standard blog, etc.

The question I'm debating is whether to buy something like K-Rate which has all of this community crap built in, or go with the free SnapShot theme which has the rating and comment functionality, and then I could just add a forum and blog separately (not that big a deal).

Any suggestions on which one would be best for something where users submit their own photos? I don't have any experience with this sort of site so any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 


radio said:
i use snapshot here: Buy New & Used Pinball Machines For Sale | Premium Pinball - like it very much. (note a2p populating classifieds)

but really depends on how much "community" you want and how much integration you want between wp and the forum. not too impressed w/ that script after giving it a quick glance.
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Thanks for the input. You bring up a good point around the integration between wp and the forum...I guess it comes down to whether asking people to register twice for the site (once to comment or submit a photo and again to use the forums) would be too big an issue.

I wonder if there is some way to have someone register to post pictures and comments, and then allow them to use that registration for the forum as well.
 
justo_tx said:
Sorry 4 teh hijacking.
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nah, man - it's all the rage.

here's my new take on epn commissions - while a pinball machine sale is legit when it comes commission time, they don't just fly off the shelves and it's far from an impulse buy. further, ebay charges commissions on a tiered basis - the more expensive something is, the less a seller pays per dollar - this is NOT good for the affiliate. Sell 10 $5000 items or 1000 $50 items - you've generated $50,000 in sales, but your commission check is going to be bigger on the latter of the two.

I haven't done the math entirely on this yet - but I think the sweet spot for commissions is in the $70 - $120 range. The commission makes it worth the effort per sale but you're not at a price level that requires a ton of thought.

I could break these all down in half (since that's your commission - but let's just keep the numbers the same and you can figure it out).

eBay.com Fees

That's the fee structure page - so clearly you're making the most commission on the first $25 - 8.75% and then it goes down drastically from there 3.5% to $1000, then 1.5% of the remaining.

Now - this is interesting - hadn't really looked at this before - that's for auctions... Fixed Price Items could be where it's at! (and easier to score an impulse buy)... there you can get bt. 8%-12% on the first $50 and still a higher percentage thereafter - check clothing - 12% to $50, 9% to $1000 - sure you're leaving $1 - $3 on the table in insertion fees, but it's made up quickly and surpassed w/ the higher percentage. That does it - I'm doing nothing but designer clothing sites from now on... lol.

guess the point was - that a $30 commission off of a pinball machine sale is great, but I would take a volume site for same money on lower priced items and be earning more.

Hi, JACK!
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Interesting side discussion on the EPN stuff...I actually have an EPN site bringing in ~$250-300/mo (was doing $600+ before Google bitchslapped me, thankfully I am building my way back up without reliance on Google). Curious how many of your commissions are from ACRUs vs. transactions. Most of my site revenue is based on transactions interestingly enough.

But back to the topic at hand. I actually did a lot of research last night on the forum integration issue and found that while I'd LOVE to use PHPBB and there are two ways to integrate it, one has to be done via a theme framework for Wordpress (OnePress) which would make me unable to use the Snapshot theme, and the other is still a bit complex for me to install as I'm fairly new to PHPBB (WP-United) so I need to tinker with that.

On the contrary, BBPress was fairly painless to install and I just need to review the available plug-ins to see if I can add some more functionality....its fairly lacking compared to the functionality of something like PHPBB...

And the WP-United guys charge a fortune for the installation/integration which I'm guessing takes them all of five seconds.
 
it's not tough to integrate the two...

also - all transactional... i've never done very well w/ acrus - but could be the niches i've picked...
 
I dont mean to hijack your thread, but I am trying out Snapshot myself and the images for posts do not seem to be showing up at all... I tried putting them in the screenshot field and large image field, yet nothing happens... Am I missing something?
 
kpaulmedia said:
Sounds like the Fivestar + Voting API + CCK

Are you just wanting to rate them or have it hot or not?

You would probably want to do a separate content type for the images...
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I'm actually torn on the rating vs. hot-or-not style. The rating keeps things fresh and easy to manage and facilitates active browsing behavior, whereas hot-or-not style is more geared towards random surfing...
 
Very cool pinball site. That theme seems to work perfectly with the auction2post plugin. Did you have to do a lot of work to get the post templates to turn out looking that clean. Also, do you do the rating manually for each machine as it's posted?
 
thanks (more hijacking). that theme did require a lot of customization and a few extra plugins - but the auction2post component of it is easy - I just set the template for how i wanted the post to look, then set the custom field 'image' to be the first image returned by the eBay API with a quick tag [img[]] and then i set the 'price' custom field w/ the [buyItNowPrice] tag. Done. Automated. there's now a theme pack w/ a2p and it's pretty hot right out of the box.
 
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