The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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WP Remote finds a home with maekit
In 2015, we wrote about giving WP Remote a new home. In 2017 we found the perfect buyer, and now we’re delighted to announce that the future of WP Remote is in the competent hands of the brilliant team at maekit.
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Our favourite sessions at WordCamp Europe 2017
We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite presentations, and giving serious props to these fantastic speakers! Franz Vitulli’s favourite long talk was Big Little Shame — a Tale of Empowered User Experience Through Localisation, by Caspar Hübinger. He felt it was really insightful and spot-on from a linguistic point of view. His favourite lightning talk, The…
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Welcome to Human Made: Stuart Shields
I’m so pleased to announce that Stuart Shields has joined us as a WordPress Engineer! Based in Toowoomba, Australia, Stuart comes to us from XWP where he’d worked as an Engineer for over a year and a half on VIP client projects. He’d already gained significant experience in a small team at a local Graphic Design agency,…
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Humans in Paris: WordPress Community Summit & WordCamp Europe 2017
Two weeks ago, people from Europe and beyond descended on the beautiful French capital for an annual celebration of the WordPress community. 1,900 people from 79 countries came together for the biggest WordPress event in Europe. And the humans were there in force! As well as organising, volunteering, and speaking at WordCamp Europe 2017, from…
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Cavalcade: WordPress Jobs at Scale
Complex WordPress sites need scheduled tasks, and asynchronous processing. We built Cavalcade, a horizontally-scalable WordPress jobs processing solution. We’ve been running Cavalcade in production for almost two years, so we’re confident in its stability and capability.
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Policies to empower humans
We’re sharing our handbook As we’ve grown and evolved as a company this year, we’ve thought hard about what we want to be. It’s easy to want to be inclusive, responsible, people-first; and it’s easy to say you’re those things too. We’ve learned a lot about who we are through writing down how we do…