The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Our React Tools for WordPress
At Human Made, we’re constantly trying to push the boundaries of what’s possible with WordPress.
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Join us and friends for Guten Tag: ‘Think Outside the Block’ March 5th
An online event series exploring the new WordPress editor.
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Transforming WordPress for the Modern Newsroom, with Fairfax Media
After 20 years, and over a million articles, Fairfax Media find the best publishing experience for a modern enterprise publisher, with WordPress.
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Building open relationships: Our Client Handbook
We’re just as passionate about open software as we are about honest and open relationships.
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Gutenberg on Human Made’s site
Matt gives his thoughts on Gutenberg following his work to implement it on humanmade.com.
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Gutenberg, a white paper for agencies and enterprise
There is a dramatic change coming to WordPress. In 2018, the world’s most popular Content Management System will have a new editing framework that completely refreshes the user experience. Gutenberg, as it’s named, will transform the model for editing and managing content layouts, and introduce a new structure for content components. Starting with blocks: Reimagining…
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Welcome to Human Made: K. Adam White
We’re super pleased to welcome the amazing K. Adam White to Human Made as a Senior JavaScript Engineer. K. Adam has broad experience in open source and WordPress and has extensively used technologies such as JavaScript, React and Node to push the software to exciting places. His work is really impressive and since speaking at…
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BigWP London: The December Meetup
At Human Made, we’re firm believers in the power of community. We’re proud to work with our partners at WordPress.com VIP to connect developers, product managers, and editorial teams who work on high-traffic, high-profile WordPress websites.
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Accessibility testing
Web accessibility is the degree to which a website is usable by as many people as possible – Laura Kalbag
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Human Day: a company-paid working day with our loved ones
Working from home doesn’t just have an impact on Human Made’s employees. It also has an impact on all of the people who live with them.
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Accessible Design: a process
Web accessibility aims to create an online space that is available to everyone, and a key part of that is designing websites and software that are flexible for all user needs.
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Welcome to Human Made: Than Taintor
We’re delighted to welcome Than Taintor to Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. With previous roles at Fusion and Janrain, Than is a full stack engineer with a lot of experience behind him. He is a self-taught polyglot programmer with a background in graphic design, and he is a huge advocate for free and open source software. Than has…
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Contributing to open source: strategy or effect?
When we talk about contributing we’re not really talking about one specific thing. Contributing to open source is, predominantly, about improving the software for everyone. But what does it mean? And why do we do it?
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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…
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How much does it cost to organise a developer conference?
In March this year we organised the second edition of A Day of REST, our developer conference about the WordPress REST API. The first version of the event was in London, and the second edition was in Boston. At Human Made we place huge importance in open source and collaboration. These values underpin everything that…
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Constructing an Identity as a Remote Worker
‘We have no uniform, but we also have none of the workplace and social markers that help people in traditional jobs form their workplace identities.’
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