Episode 71: Growing Through Strategic Acquisitions

Today’s episode is sponsored by SearchWP, a powerful plugin to enhance your WordPress search experience. One of its main features is its ability to build custom search engines. It also has the ability to search within PDF files, office documents, and other types of files. You can get a free three-day email course that explains how SearchWP can improve your search function at SearchWP.com.

Today we are talking about various updates. Here are some of the highlights:

Brad has acquired Better Search Replace Pro earlier this year, but he’s announcing it now because he wants to build some of its features into Migrate DB Pro. He answers some questions from Pippin about the acquisition process and what it will look like going forward.

Brad also talks about some other updates and changes to Migrate DB, as well as his process for walking people through the Mergebot beta testing process.

Pippin has pushed through a few updates and has brought on a new support technician to help with support. He’s also put out a free add-on called Limited Quantity Available that limits the number of times a subscription can be purchased. He talks about some other updates to EDD, including add-on release updates.

Pippin tells listeners about the process of discovering a free Stripe plug-in that caused some confusion, acquiring the plug-in, and deciding to discontinue the product.

Pippin put out a new version of the iOS app for EDD. It has more features than the old version, with much more information available. It’s also compatible with the Apple Watch.

Links:

Episode 44 with Jonathan Christopher

Big Snow Tiny Conf

WordCamp US 2016

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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.

PIPPIN: Welcome back to Apply Filters, Episode 71. Today Brad and I are going to talk about a few plugin updates that we’ve done as well as a couple of conferences and various other updates. But first–

BRAD: This episode is sponsored by SearchWP, a powerful plugin for WordPress that dramatically improves the default search engines inside of WordPress. One of the main features, it has the ability to build custom search engines. For example, you could build a search form that’s specific to your e-commerce products or your health documentation or any other kind of content that’s on your website. It even has the ability to search within PDF files, office documents, and other kinds of files on your server. SearchWP right now has a free three-day email course that you can sign up for from SearchWP.com that will help explain how SearchWP can improve your site.

We had Jonathan Christopher on the show, the creator of SearchWP, back in Episode 44 if you’d like to listen to an interview with him. Be sure to thank him for sponsoring this episode and upcoming episodes by going to SearchWP.com and checking out the plugin.

PIPPIN: It’s well worth the effort and the price tag.

BRAD: Yeah. Awesome.

PIPPIN: All right. So Brad, I know you guys have pushed out a couple of updates recently. Want to tell us about them, or if you have anything else you want to go over first?

BRAD: Yeah, so the cat is out of the bag that we actually acquired a plugin. We acquired Better Search Replace Pro from Matt Shaw back in January. And I didn’t announce it until now because I wanted to build in some of the features of Better Search Replace Pro. I wanted to build them into Migrate DB Pro and kind of announce our plans for that. And so this release is the start of that.

This release is kind of the first big feature of Better Search Replace Pro that we’ve added to Migrate DB Pro. It is in place, search and replace, so you can run a search and replace on the current site that you’re currently on. That was not pos