Episode 55: Automatic Renewals, Vagrant vs. Docker, and Varnish

Welcome to Apply Filters, Episode 55.  We’d like to let you know that we do have an open sponsorship available. You can sponsor an episode, a series, whatever works for you –  check out our Sponsors page for more information on the opportunity.

It’s been awhile since our last update episode and we’ve been pretty busy so we’ll do our best to get it all in. Today we’ll also be talking about automatic renewals for our plug ins and the challenges of implementing automatic renewals for code.

Pippin’s update:

Pippin returned from New Zealand after a two week trip to visit his teammate Andrew Monroe, who works on Easy Digital Downloads and Affiliate WP with him and is the master behind the site design for Affiliate WP, Pippin’s Plugins, and Restricted Content Pro. While down there, he expanded his team by two.

He also brought on a developer to do some work on the next version of Restricted Content Pro. All these additions have been instrumental in getting the recurring payments plugin for EDD built. He’s also added an update to WP for Sign-Up Referrals and is now available for free download.

Brad’s Update

Just welcomed a new full time developer, Matt Shaw. They just did two major releases last week, the first was Assets Add-On 1.1 for WP Offload S3 and it’s a big improvement. Ashley wrote a blog post about the release.

They also released a Multi Site Tools Addon 1.1. It allows you to push a subsite from a multisite install to a single site install, so basically spin out a subsite as it’s own standalone. And it goes the other way-from a single site install you can pull in a multisite install.

Brad’s team has also been busy blogging, a recent one comparing Vagrant to Docker, one of the most popular recent posts. Ashley did a post and published a library on Github for doing background processing on WordPress themes, Jeff did a review on WPPusher, and Brad’s looked into Varnish Cache. They also had the opportunity to check out the Day of Rest Conference on which they’ve written a review.

In today’s episode we’ll will talk about automatic renewals

What exactly is an automatic renewal

Combining licenses into one key

Issues and solutions with Paypal

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

Sign-Up Referrals Plugin

A Day of Rest Review

Vagrant Vs. Docker

Background Processing on WordPress Themes

Varnish

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Transcript

INTRO: Welcome to Apply Filters, the podcast all about WordPress development. Now here’s your hosts, Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard.

BRAD: Welcome to Episode 55. This time Pippin and I will be talking about whether or not we should have automatic renewals for our plugins and the challenges of implementing automatic renewals in code.

I guess we’re going to give our updates first, and it’s been a long time, right? How are you doing, Pippin?

PIPPIN: I’m doing good. It’s definitely been a long time since we’ve done an update. Our last episode was with Carrie Dils, and we kind of jumped right into the subject matter there, so I know we’ve been busy for the last, well, it’s been at least a month to a month and a half since we’ve done an update. I’m sure you guys have been just as busy.

BRAD: Yeah, man. I’ve got all kinds of stuff to share. I had to cut some stuff out.

PIPPIN: Yeah, we can’t get everything in either.

BRAD: Yeah, it’s right. But first, I just want to mention that we have a sponsorship spot available for kind of like ongoing, like if you want to sponsor our show for X number of episodes or kind of semi-permanently, we have a spot available.

PIPPIN: Or a single episode.

BRAD: Yeah, or a single episode. Whatever.

PIPPIN: Just shoot us an email from the website, especially if you have a product or a service that you would like us to check out. We’d be more than happy to review it.

BRAD: Cool. What have you been up to, then,