When you order a print on my website, it sends a little bit of metadata to my PayPal account letting me know which image you purchased. I am using the Photocrati theme for Wordpress, and it's pretty nice in every other respect -- except how it talks to PayPal.So, you visit my site, you click on a wonderful image that captures your soul, you gleefully fill out your payment info and anxiously await the image in a few days. Everything's great on your side, but here's what I see:
Outside of this website, the phrase "artifacts - 04.jpg" is totally meaningless. You don't see it when you look around, you don't dream of "artifacts - 04" to arrive on your doorstep, and I don't write that anywhere on the print. In order to find out what you bought, I have to browse my own website and fish out exactly which image that is.When I add images to the site, I have been quite meticulous about ensuring that each image has the right title:
The number "04" in the file name is only relevant because it's the fourth one in that gallery -- but for some galleries, even that isn't true. The Photocrati theme allows me to re-order the images how ever I like. Heck, I might get a wild hair and end up putting image "04" as the 17th one in the gallery, but imagine how much more confusion I would be causing myself by actually using the site for its intended purpose.I have contacted Photocrati support about using the actual Title of the image in the PayPal receipt, but they insist that it's impossible at the moment: "Unfortunately at this time its not possible to adjust the data sent to paypal automatically - we may include this as an adjustable feature in a future release, and I do apologize for any inconvenience."You know what else is impossible -- renaming the file. I will have to delete it and upload a properly-named file.Until either the Photocrati folks update the theme to add the title to the data they send to PayPal, or I work up the gumption to remove and re-upload every single photo on my site, each order will incur a slight delay due to me re-reading my site and doing research on what PayPal is telling me what you just bought. (But it will increase the number of hits on my site, maybe that's a good thing!)
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