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Apply Filters

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Brad Touesnard and Pippin Williamson talk all about WordPress development.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 83: Finale

    This is the last episode before we retire the podcast. Many people have enjoyed the podcast and we’ve had a lot of great feedback and a lot of fun, so we’ve been asked why we’re...

  2. Episode 82: The Future of EDD, Mergebot Updates, and Creating Your Own SSL Cert

    Today, Brad and Pippin will be talking about what they’ve been up to the past few months, including things that have been going well and things that they’ve struggled with. Some of the highlights of...

  3. Episode 81: Matt Mullenweg – #WorthIt

    Today, Brad and Pippin will be talking to Matt Mullenweg. Matt is the founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. We will be talking about the history of Automattic and what Matt does in...

  4. Episode 80: Retargeting, Focus, and Other Listener Questions

    Today we’re going to be talk about updates on what we’ve been up to recently. Then we’ll answer some of the questions that have come in from our readers and listeners. Sit back and enjoy...

  5. Episode 79: WordPress Development Challenges, Hiring Developers, and Other Listener Questions

    We’re going to answer some listener questions today. We’ve been getting a lot of great ones, and we thank you! We will continue answering questions in future episodes. If you have questions that you’d like...

  6. Episode 78: Payment Gateways, Tax Season, and Other Listener Questions

    Today’s episode is sponsored by Pagely, the original gangsters of WordPress hosting. They’ve been around for a long time, but they’ve gone from humble beginnings to hosting huge brands. They’ve been able to figure out...

  7. Episode 77: How to Build a Batch Processing System with Drew Jaynes

    Today’s episode is sponsored by Pagely, who are the original gangsters of managed WordPress hosting. They come from humble beginnings, but now they host huge brands like Disney, Visa, eBay and more. They know their...

  8. Episode 76: Advanced Strategies vs. Just Shipping, and Other Listener Questions

    We don’t have a sponsor this episode, but we are celebrating 100,000 downloads! With a sponsorship, about 2,100 people will listen to your ad. If you’re interested, visit applyfilters.fm to check it out. Today, Pippin...

  9. Episode 75: Your Development Questions, Answered

    Today we’re going to answer questions from listeners. We’re focusing on development today, and if we don’t get to your question, we will get to it soon, so go ahead and get in touch if...

  10. Episode 74: Looking Back at 2016, and Ahead to 2017

    2016 had been a year filled with challenges, achievements, and good experiences for both Pippin and Brad. Today, we’re going to talk about the year in review, both professionally and personally. We’ll also think ahead...

  11. Episode 73: MergeBot and WordCamp US Updates

    Today’s episode is sponsored by Post Status. It’s a great resource for news, updates, and other things happening in the WordPress ecosystem. You can subscribe to the site to get additional resources, like interviews, podcasts,...

  12. Episode 72: WPForms with Jared Atchison

    Our sponsor today is Post Status. Post Status is an industry news site that covers the WordPress ecosystem for professionals and enthusiasts. There’s also the Post Status club, which gives you a news-filled email, access...

  13. 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...

  14. Episode 70: Mailbag – Plugin Pirating, Caching, Project Management

    Today’s episode is brought to you by SearchWP. This is a plugin for WordPress that improves search functionality within the platform, allowing you to create distinct search engines, assign priority, and much more. Check out...

  15. Episode 69: Maintenance Services and Page Builder Plugins

    Today’s podcast episode is sponsored by SearchWP. This search plug-in takes the WP search engine and supercharges it, giving you complete flexibility. It allows you to search your e-commerce files, build custom search engines, have...

  16. Episode 68: Plugin Uninstalls, Companies are People, Apple, and Updates

    Today’s episode is brought to you by SearchWP. This is a WordPress plugin. Its main feature is the ability to create a custom search engine specific to your ecommerce product, health documentation or other content...

  17. Episode 67: Business updates, marketing tips, and cashflow

    Apply Filters is looking for a new sponsor! If you are interested, please contact us. Sponsors help us keep the show running and get a shoutout. Today’s episode focuses on updates from Brad and Pippin,...

  18. Episode 66: WordPress 4.6 Release

    Today’s sponsor is WP Pusher, a product that allows for “pain-free deployment of WordPress themes and plugins directly from Git.” WP Pusher is offering 20% off to our listeners; just use the code “applyfilters.” ...

  19. Episode 65: Automatic Renewals, Monsters in the Database, and Client License Ownership

    Today’s sponsor is Network Solutions. If you are looking for a managed hosting platform with an emphasis on security, consider their product, Secure WordPress. Your plugins will stay updated and you won’t have to worry...

  20. Episode 64: Plugin Updates, Team Retreats, Automated Testing

    Today’s sponsor is Network Solutions, maker of Secure WordPress. This platform is great for those wanting the ultimate in security. With 24/7 tech support and the ability to update plugins, backup daily and scan for...

  21. Episode 63: Singleton or No Singleton and Our Most Effective Marketing Channel

    First, we would like to thank our sponsor today, which is Secure WordPress, the WP hosting platform of Network Solutions. With Secure WordPress, you can feel confident that your plugins are up to date, that...

  22. Episode 62: Custom Content, Managing Expectations and EDD 2.6 Imports

    We would like to thank today’s sponsor, Network Solutions. Their product, Secure WordPress, is a managed hosting platform with an emphasis on security. The program keeps plugins updated, performs daily backups, provides malware scanning and...

  23. Episode 61: Devin Walker of Give and Co-Founder of WordImpress

    First, we’d like to thank WP All Export, the sponsor of today’s show. With WP All Export, you can export anything in WordPress to Excel, XML or CSV. You can edit the data that you...

  24. Episode 60: Solving the Problem of Database Merging

    Update 2016-08-16: “Data Hawk” referenced in this cast has been renamed to Mergebot. Check out the latest news about Mergebot We would like to thank Gravity Flow for sponsoring today’s podcast. Gravity Flow allows sites to automate business...

  25. Episode 59: WordPress 4.5 and Imposter Syndrome

    We would like to thank the sponsor of today’s show, Gravity Flow. Gravity Flow allows sites to automate business processes for internal routing, scheduling, reporting and more. You can go to GravityFlow.io to learn more....

  26. Episode 58: Releases, Growing Our Teams, and the Dangers in Assumptions

    In this episode of Apply Filters we both update you on our projects. We’ve both made exciting progress including Brad’s upcoming Costa Rica trip (a goal of his for 2016). Listen in as we discuss...

  27. Episode 57: Product Releases and PressNomics Highlights

    Today we have updates on our latest projects as well highlights from the recent PressNomics event.

  28. Episode 56: Batch and Background Process

    In today’s show, we discuss background or batch processing which is used when performing large database upgrades, migrating data, changing data structure, or anything that requires a lot of API calls or database queries. You...

  29. 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...

  30. Episode 54: Carrie Dils on Genesis Theme Development

    Carrie Dills is our guest today. Carrie is currently doing web development with Crowd Favorite by day and dabbling in a variety of things tech by nite. She has been working around computers her whole life, and began freelancing straight out of college. About five years ago was introduced to...

  31. Episode 53: Review of 2015 and Looking Ahead to 2016

    In this episode we take a look back at 2015 and talk about whether we met our yearly goals, both professionally and personally. We also talk about what our goals will be for 2016. This episode focuses on our year in review and our year to come, so the talk about code is a bit light.

  32. Episode 52: WordCamp US, Version 4.4 Release, and Calypso

    WordPress 4.4 is out and Brad and Pippin share their impressions on today’s show! Brad and Pippin are fresh from Wordcamp US a week long educational and networking conference for WordPress users. For an honest...

  33. Episode 51: What to expect with the pending release of HTTP2

    A big thank you to our sponsors WP Ninjas, who are working on a new version of Ninja Forms 3.0 which looks awesome. Building a form with keyboard shortcuts is amazing. It’s a great functionality improvement,...

  34. Episode 50: PHP7 and What It Means To You

    Welcome to Apply Filters, Episode 50. Today we’re talking about the upcoming launch of PHP7 and what it could mean to you as a WordPress theme and plugin developer. This update to the framework will...

  35. Apply Filters 49: Drew Jaynes, WordPress 4.2 Release Lead

    With our sponsor WP Ninjas soon to be releasing Ninja Forms 3.0 we wanted to share this NinjaForms preview video. Check out what you can expect in the upcoming release of Ninja Forms 3.0. Today...

  36. Apply Filters 48: Managing Custom Tables

    This week Brad and Pippin dive into the topic of managing custom tables in WordPress. This is a powerful tool to help extend the capabilities of core WordPress.

  37. Apply Filters 47: Updates on our Progress and Digging into the Mailbag

    This week we are catching up on the latest with our projects, discussing what books we’ve been reading lately that we recommend, and answer listener questions from our mailbag. This episode was sponsored by WP...

  38. Episode 46 – James Laws, co-founder of WP Ninjas

    Today we welcome co-founder of the WP Ninjas James Laws to the show. James originally appeared in Episode 13 of the podcast and today, almost a year and a half later, a lot has changed at WP Ninjas. We dig into how he and his co-founder Kevin Stover have scaled the business, what they've learned...

  39. Episode 45 – Updates on our Projects, and Campaign Tracking in Google Analytics

    In this episode Pippin and I are catching up on our projects, and diving in to the topic of campaign tracking with Google Analytics. I have been working on some updates to WP Offload S3, including a lot of work around testing and how we're approaching it specifically. I've also been doing...

  40. Episode 44 – Jonathan Christopher

    Today we welcome Jonathan Christopher of SearchWP, Iron to Iron, and MondayByNoon to the show. We also begin to explore WordPress 4.3 Beta 1 which includes updated password strength requirements, updates to the visual editor, and responsive list tables.

  41. Episode 43 – Backpress, Responsive Images, and Post Type Labels for Featured Images

    Welcome to Episode 43 of Apply Filters. Today we dig into Backpress, a PHP library of some of the core functionality of WordPress. Backpress grew out of the core of WP and is now the muscle behind GlotPress, a popular web-based software translation tool. However, the future of this tool is in...

  42. Episode 42 – Taxonomy Term Splitting

    In episode 42 of Apply Filters we talk through a few updates from our projects and dig into an issue that has been plaguing the WordPress community for some time now: Taxonomy Term Splitting. A recent article by Boone Gorges describes the problem very well and explores some of the potential ways…

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  43. Episode 41 – Rob Walling of Drip

    Welcome to Episode 41 of the Apply Filters Podcast. Today we’re very excited to welcome Rob Walling on to the show. Rob talks about his Stairstep Approach to building a business, the challenges and benefits of SAAS, and his journey in creating Drip.

  44. Episode 40 – Renaming Plugins, Loopconf, Creating Documentation, Getting Started Selling Plugins

    This episode covers some best practices around building out documentation for your plugins and themes, how to get started selling your own plugins, and a few updates from Brad and Pippin.

  45. Episode 39 – Commercial Plugins on GitHub, Welcome Screens, Comparing Plugins, Responsive Images

    In this episode, we discuss commercial plugins on GitHub, welcome screens after updates, comparing similar plugins, responsive images, and more.

  46. Episode 38 – Validating Features and Business Models for Plugins

    We dive into how we have validated the business models for our plugins and how we use similar methods to validate new features and enhancements.

  47. Episode 37 – UI Expectations and Pricing Experiments

    We discuss our recent projects, the benefits and disadvantages of PayPal Express, making active blogging a part of our teams' routine, and security updates.

  48. Episode 36 – PayPal Express, Blogging, and Security Updates

    We discuss our recent projects, the benefits and disadvantages of PayPal Express, making active blogging a part of our teams' routine, and security updates.

  49. Episode 35 – EDD v2.3, Moving from Campaign Monitor to Drip

    In episode 35 we recap some of the projects we have been working on recently and get into a discussion on a few open tickets for WordPress core.

  50. Episode 34 – Patrick Rauland, WooCommerce Product Manager

    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.

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