In Episode 11 of the WP Elevation podcast I spoke with Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains, home of WP Migrate DB. Brad has been through the experience of launching the WP App Store, which included investment from Adii Pienaar at WooThemes and Carl Hancock at Gravity Forms. The WP App Store ultimately failed and Brad has lived to tell the tale.
Brad is giving away a personal license of the WP Migrate DB Pro plugin. Watch the interview for details on how to enter.
Brad presented recently at the Boston WordPress MeetUp about the evolution of his business and why his pricing model is the way it is.
Brad has teamed up with Pippin Williamson and launched a podcast called Apply Filters which is aimed at WordPress developers.
I tried to find a screenshot of Flippa.com from 2008 but the way back machine kept redirecting so I gave up. However you can see the screenshots on Brad’s blog.
Brad is currently reading Judas Unchained: The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton.
Brad suggested I interview Jason Schuller who’s fame includes Press75 and more recently Dropplets and Leeflets. Keep your eyes on your inbox Jason.
Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below telling us the #1 feature you’d like to see in WP Migrate DB Pro.
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Awesome … looks like I will be spending some more money on a developers license…. now I haven’t used this little beauty but it would benefit if it worked with multiple WordPress installs from one dashboard. This would allow me to quickly mirror all of my clients websites from the one dashboard rather than logging in to each dashboard…. you could even cheat and simply release an extension so that it worked with MainWP … this would save everyone even more time… and make it a must have for most people, in my opinion.
FX’s single dashboard idea would be great. So would an affiliate model for licenses.
Hey Steve, did you mean ManageWP? That is a great idea.
I personally use mainwp.com as it’s a separate plugin giving me control off all dashboards from the one … but it could be adapted to work with all of these types of plugins / programs and then it would obviously be a must have plugin.
Great podcast Troy,
Great to hear the perspectives and suggestions of someone in the freelance world who is actually successfully running shop. As far as a suggestion for the WP Migrate goes, I have never used it, but if it has the ability, or could have the ability to move a complete “test site” built on a WP test site url to an actual live WP website, that would be awesome. In other words, build the website completely on a test url and move it to the already live site in the case of a design upgrade.
Hey Andrew thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. The WP Migrate DB plug-in allows you to backup your database from your test site, change the URL on the way out and gives you a clean SQL file that you can then import into your live site with the new URL updated.