Over the last couple of weeks, we had some great questions submitted by two listeners. One wanted to know about how he could go about learning SVN better so that it is not as much of a hassle to update plugins he has hosted on WordPress.org, and the other listener wanted to hear about some of daily habits. What activities, schedules, habits, etc, have helped us to become more successful developers and to help us improve our businesses.
This episode was sponsored by WP Ninjas, the creators of Ninja Demo and the highly popular Ninja Forms plugin.
Show Notes:
EDD pagination bug
WP Migrate DB (free)
Review us on iTunes
Image credit: Vancouver Public Library
Transcript
INTRO: Welcome to Apply Filters, the podcast all about WordPress development. Now here’s your hosts, Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard.
PIPPIN: Welcome back to Episode 29 of Apply Filters. Today we’re going to be covering some listener submitted questions, everything from deployment scripts to updating plugins on WordPress.org to just general work habits, things that we do throughout the day. And we want to start, as usual, by talking about some of the things that we’ve been working on recently. Before we do that, though, a quick shout out to our permanent sponsors once again, the guys behind Ninja Forms, WP Ninjas. Go check them out if you haven’t: Ninja Forms and Ninja Demo.
Brad, what have you been doing lately?
BRAD: Hey, man. We’ve been working away. We pushed out a free version of WP Migrate DB. That was on, gees, that was, yeah, just last week, towards the end of the week.
PIPPIN: You’ve had a free version for a while, so this is just a greatly improved free version?
BRAD: It’s not like — yeah, there was a lot of changes that we made, a lot of bug fixes and some very, very minor improvements, kind of all behind the scenes stuff, so we made it a point release, but it was a ton of work. We’ve just made a lot of really small changes. And, yeah, so we finally got that out, and then the pro version will be staggered. It’ll be coming out probably in a week’s time.
PIPPIN: Very cool.
BRAD: So we’ve got that coming up. And, on the help tab of that plugin, we never had a support form. We always just had the email address, and people would just email us through their email client or whatever they use for email. So we fixed that up and put an actual support form in there, so that’s pretty cool. And it automatically grabs their, like, the diagnostic info and error log from the plugin.
PIPPIN: That’s really handy.
BRAD: And attaches it to their request. It doesn’t do it, like, maliciously. There’s a checkbox you’ve got to check for it to do that, but it’ll be super handy because we always ask people. You know, they’d send us a request, and then we’d email them back and say, “Can you send us the diagnostics?”
PIPPIN: Right, so you’re just removing the need for that extra.
BRAD: Yeah, so we’re stepping — yeah, so taking out those steps, those extra back and forth. Those shouldn’t be necessary anymore, and it just makes it way easier for them to give us that stuff, checking the box, right?
PIPPIN: I’ve been meaning to do that for the EDD support form where we won’t necessarily require it, but just provide the form to submit that info when they open their initial ticket. Now ours inside of the WordPress admin, so they’re still going through the form on the website, but it would still get rid of that initial reply of, “Hey, could you send us your system info?”
BRAD: Yeah, exactly. And I think that it probably annoys people a little bit to have to do that extra step just to copy and paste into a text file and then attach that to the reply email. It’s a few steps that, if you can save them, it’ll —
PIPPIN: It makes it better for everyone.
BRAD: Yea
