The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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2020 at Human Made
For Human Made and our clients, 2020 has been a year marked by adaptation. With the world changing quickly and drastically around us we’ve had to adjust our own plans, and continue to support our clients and customers whilst they did the same. It’s been a year that’s tested us as people, a company, and…
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Taking our company retreat online
Every year, Human Made gets together somewhere in the world for our annual company retreat. As a fully remote-working organisation this is an important part of our calendar as it gives us time together to renew relationships, make connections, hang out, and work on some of the bigger picture projects that are so much easier to…
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Welcome to Human Made: Ivan Kristianto
We’re excited to welcome Ivan Kristianto as a Senior Web Engineer to Human Made! Ivan has a wealth of experience in WordPress and has over 15 years experience in developing web applications with most his career spent working in digital agencies. Ivan is an active contributor to the WordPress community having organised several WordCamp’s and…
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Welcome to Human Made: Gareth Welton
We’re excited to welcome Gareth Welton as a Senior Project Manager to Human Made! Gareth has a wealth of experience with his career history beginning in design and publishing and moving to web design and software development and later to project management. Having previously freelanced with us, we are thrilled to now have him as…
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A primer on acceptance testing
Foreword Last week, I took the exam for the ISTQB® Acceptance Testing certification. This is a Foundation Level certification, specializing on acceptance testing, including all related activities. In this post now, I would like to share the, in my opinion, essential information included in the official learning material, plus one or two things I learned…
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Block transforms: a primer
The Block Editor ships with a powerful API for converting raw text and/or blocks into other blocks. Almost any kind of content can be automatically upgraded to the Block equivalent using a feature called transforms. These transforms will take in HTML or string content and map it to the appropriate Block equivalent, using custom logic…
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Our commitment to combating institutional racism
Black lives have always mattered, and at Human Made we echo many of the sentiments expressed by Nesrine Malik in her article, ‘Fighting the racism that killed George Floyd requires more than just hashtags’. Over the past few days we have had renewed discussions about how we can best use our platform and privilege, as…
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How we’re responding to COVID-19
As a remote company with employees, clients, partners, and friends all over the world, we’ve been monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19 as it has evolved. We’ve been watching and learning as governments and businesses have begun responding, and have been talking both internally as a team, and externally with our HR, legal, and safety and…
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Keeping your team effective while working from home
Companies all over the world are cancelling travel, stopping events, and sending employees to work from home. If the coronavirus outbreak continues, this situation will likely only get worse, with teams who are used to co-located working now finding themselves sat at laptops in living rooms or readjusting to life in a home office. At…
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Meet us at WordCamp Asia!
The first WordCamp Asia will take place from February 21 to 23 in Bangkok, Thailand, and we’re more than excited to be attending and contributing to this new WordPress flagship event! Regional WordCamps started out in 2013 when a group of long-time WordPress contributors from Europe pursued the idea of a dedicated community event for…
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Welcome to Human Made: Stephen Edgar
We are truly excited to welcome Stephen Edgar as a Web Engineer to Human Made! Those who have been around the WordPress contributor community will almost certainly be familiar with Stephen’s WordPress.org username @netweb. He has been a bbPress developer and committer for years, as well as a WordPress, Gutenberg and BuddyPress Build/Test Tools component…
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Welcome to Human Made: Mitesh Pandey
We’re delighted to welcome Mitesh Pandey as Senior Project Manager at Human Made! Mitesh holds Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM) and Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certificates. With over seven years of experience in Agile project management, he is augmenting our Client Services team for our growing engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. Having worked with Human Made as…
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Altis 2: A/B testing, Publication Checklist, enhanced DX
We’re excited to announce the released a new iteration of our next-generation digital experience platform: Altis 2 features A/B testing, a new Publication Checklist workflow, enhanced privacy and GDPR compliance, cloud improvements, and fine-tuned developer experience. Business logic to enhance workflows Altis 2 introduces exciting new features to power improved experiences for developers and marketers…
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Welcome to Human Made: Sander van Dragt
We’re excited to welcome Sander van Dragt to Human Made as a Senior Web Developer! Sander started his career on the web 14 years ago, developing custom CMSs and systems automation in the education sector. In 2016, he joined a leading media publishing company to help build and support a WordPress-based platform for regional newspapers…
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Join us at the Digital Transformation Conference
We’re excited to announce we’ll be attending and speaking at this year’s Digital Transformation Conference, ‘the UK’s biggest digital business innovation conference’, taking place in London on November 21, 2019. The annual event organised by Roar Media features over 30 speakers from publishers like our client News UK, Condé Nast International, The Guardian, and the…
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Welcome to Human Made: Joeleen Kennedy
We’re delighted to welcome Joeleen Kennedy to Human Made as a Web Engineer! Joeleen has been working with WordPress for more than ten years in a variety of positions, including leading an agency front end team. Before joining Human Made, she was a Concierge WordPress Engineer for Pressable, working on projects for Automattic’s Special Projects…
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Introducing Altis, our enterprise WordPress platform
In May 2019, we launched Altis, our next-generation digital experience platform. Altis is the evolution of how we work with WordPress, and we believe it’s a fundamental and major step forward for the WordPress ecosystem. So what is Altis, and what benefits does it bring for enterprise development teams and their process? Digital experience platform:…
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Beyond WordPress: A 10+ year evolution at Human Made
It’s with huge excitement that we present Altis, a proven end-to-end enterprise-augmented WordPress platform. Human Made has grown a lot in the last year. In numbers, yes, but predominantly in the services we offer our clients. At the same time, we’ve watched WordPress’ growth from a humble CMS to an open, expansive platform capable of…
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Human Made named Top WordPress Dev Company
We’re really excited to announce that we’ve been awarded Clutch’s 1000! To celebrate this, we’re taking a look back at this fabulous year.
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Hot Module Replacement for Gutenberg Blocks
For a year now at Human Made we have taken a ‘Gutenberg-first’ approach, considering how the new block editor can be the core of the solutions we propose to our clients.
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Human Made Celebrates Growth in Japan
Human Made celebrates growth in the Asia Pacific region and launches a translated version of the official website in Japanese.
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