In episode 34 we are joined by Patrick Rauland, the current product manager for WooCommerce and a prolific plugin developer and contributor to Ninja Forms.

Patrick had some audio issues that started around 15 mins in. Things go back to normal a few minutes later, at 17:28.

This episode was sponsored by WP Ninjas, the creators of Ninja Demo and the highly popular Ninja Forms plugin.

Show Notes:

Amazon S3 and Cloudfront 0.8 released

Easy Digital Downloads v2.2.3 released

AffiliateWP – PayPal Payouts v1.0.1 released

Patrick Rauland

SpeakingInBytes.com

WooCommerce E-book

Patrick’s plugins

Review us on iTunes

Image credit: Patrick Rauland

Transcript

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

PIPPIN: Welcome to Apply Filters, Episode 34. Today, we are honored to have a special guest, Patrick Rauland, joining us. Also, as usual, is my cohost, Brad Touesnard. Today’s episode is sponsored once again by the WP Ninjas who are the creators of Ninja Forms and Ninja Demos.

Patrick, who is with us today, is also one of the developers of Ninja Forms. He’s done some work for them, and he also does a bunch of work with WooThemes on WooCommerce. We’re going to get in and talk to him about all of that work here in a few minutes.

Before we do that though, Brad, why don’t you tell us what you’ve been working on?

BRAD: Yeah, so we go 0.8 of the Amazon S2 and CloudFront plugin out, which is pretty awesome.

PIPPIN: That’s the free one, right?

BRAD: Yeah, it’s the free one. It’s got a new, completely redesigned UI for the settings. I think it’s just way more clear how to configure that plugin. Before, it was just kind of a hodgepodge of settings.

PIPPIN: Nice.

BRAD: It’s a lot clearer.

PIPPIN: I’m looking at your screenshots now and they look really clean and nice.

BRAD: Yeah. Thanks, man.

PIPPIN: I’ll have to give that a look. I’m actually in the middle of doing some S3 work right now, so maybe I’ll go steal your code.

BRAD: Yeah. Do it. Do it, man. That’s what it’s for. It’s free, free open source. Yeah, probably the most proud thing of that UI, the thing I’m most proud of is the preview, the URL preview. As you change the settings, it changes this preview of what your URLs are going to look like, so you can kind of see in real time what they will be like.

PIPPIN: Yeah, that looks really, really nice. I’ll have to give this a go.

BRAD: Yeah.

PIPPIN: I’m not really happy with the S3 stuff that I’m kind of working on right now. It’s our EDD extension for it, and I really kind of want to change how it works.

BRAD: Yeah, yeah.

PIPPIN: I could use a little bit of that for inspiration.

BRAD: Cool, yeah. Yeah.

PIPPIN: What else do you got going on?

BRAD: Part of the pro version of that plugin is going to be an EDD add-on.

PIPPIN: Sweet!

BRAD: Just so that you don’t have to use a hodge-podge of plugins.

PIPPIN: I’m really excited for that. That would probably do wonderful things for us.

BRAD: Yeah, for sure. Another thing we worked on is we reorganized a repo, our Git repo for Migrate DB Pro.

PIPPIN: Nice.

BRAD: We brought all the add-ons into the same repo. Man, it just feels good. It just feels good to have —

PIPPIN: A lot easier for development tracking, I bet.

BRAD: It is. It is. There are little things that are not quite right, like when you create an issue: How do you flag it as, it’s for this add-on and not for the Core plug-in, right? But those really are minor.

PIPPIN: Those are pretty minor things, yeah.

BRAD: Yeah, we’re just using labels, GitHub labels and adding little tags to the title, and so it’s working out pretty awesome.

PIPPIN: That’s great.

BRAD: I’m pretty happy with it so far. Yeah, and then w