The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Ten humans get props for WordPress 4.4
WordPress 4.4 ”Clifford”, named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, was released last week with a record-breaking 471 contributors! Congratulations to release lead Scott Taylor – WordPress 4.4 is one of the most full-featured WordPress releases in a while. As a company, we’ve always been extremely dedicated to the WordPress project and the massive community of people who…
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Human Made named in Top Enterprise Dev Companies
Clutch, a B2B research company based in Washington, DC that identifies leading software and development firms, included Human Made into their 2015 Top Enterprise Software Development Firms UK Leaders Matrix, together with the likes of Itransition, Intellectsoft, DCSL Software, Bright Interactive, BJSS, Made Tech, and thoughtbot. We’re grateful and honoured to be among the top…
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The Day of Rest site has gone all REST API
Tom announced our A Day of REST WordPress API conference back in September, and since then we’ve been super busy on the conference, and on the site to support it. Due to an unfortunate ceiling malfunction we had to change venue, but we’ve ended up just a few hundred yards across town in the utterly charming…
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WP Remote deserves a better home. So we’re selling it.
Update: WP Remote has now been acquired, read our announcement.
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In Parallel – The Open Source Agency Conference
In Parallel is taking place on 17th & 18th March in the Clarendon Centre, Brighton. There are innumerable open source communities, many of which that have agencies operating within them. We wanted to meet people running agencies in parallel projects, to see what we could learn from one another and how we can collaborate in…
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A Day of REST – the WordPress REST API conference
We are really excited to announce the first of some events that we have been working on. A Day of REST is a one day conference dedicated to the WordPress REST API. It is taking place on 28th January 2016 at Conway Hall, London. If you follow anything in WordPress, you’ll know that the REST…
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#HMgoes to WordCamp Norrköping
Browsing the WordCamp Central website to see where the next WordCamps are going to be held is always exciting for a geography nerd like me. Despite spending a significant part of my childhood with maps and atlases, reading about upcoming WordCamps always makes me discover tiny, quaint towns I have never heard of before. But…
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WCEU 2015 & HM Retreat: The Lowdown
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve returned from WordCamp Europe in beautiful Seville, and our company retreat in Zahara; and after settling back into the workflow it seems like an apt time to recapture the entire event. For many people in our team, this was the first time we all came together for WCEU…
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Humans talk: watch our #WCEU sessions 2015
Word Camp Europe 2015 was on June 26-27 in Seville, Spain – a massive two day event gathering more than 800 people from the vast European community together. As per protocol, it also has the larges number of humans attending than any other WordCamp in the world! And we’re not just attending. We’re organising (Petya),…
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An Aussie goes to a WordCamp in Japan
WordCamp Kansai 2015 happened recently, and I received an invitation to speak. It was an exciting opportunity; I got to see Japan first-hand, catch up with friends, see the home of Wapuu, and talk about WordPress. I’m not new to WordCamps, or speaking, but there was a lot for me to think about after leaving Kansai.…
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Announcing S3 Uploads
My favourite type of plugin is one that has focused single job, requires little configuration and “just works”. I’m not so interested in user facing features, or admin options; I want a plugin to do one thing and do it well. One such plugin that has been in development for some time here at Human…
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Make shortcodes a piece of cake – the Shortcake story
Once upon a time, a long time ago back in release 2.5 in 2008, the shortcode API was released into the world of WordPress. It allowed users to insert complex page elements, such as a gallery or blockquote, by adding a short piece of code with square brackets, [name attr = “value”], via the post…
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John Blackbourn Joins Human Made
I’m really excited to welcome John Blackbourn to Human Made as a full-time Senior WordPress Engineer. John brings a deep technical knowledge of WordPress and his experience applying that to the “real world” of client projects is a great fit for what we do. From his long history of WordPress contributions culminating in his leadership of the WordPress 4.1 release, to…
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Petya Raykovska Joins Human Made
I’m really excited to welcome Petya Raykovska to Human Made as a full-time Senior Project Manager. Petya brings a huge amount of experience and passion for her work and for the community at large. From her efforts evangelising the use of Open Source in the publishing industry as the co-founder of the OpenMedia Foundation, to her experience leading client…
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It’s all about the WordCamps
Wow – it’s February already, 2015 is going very quickly. After a Christmas and New Year break the Humans are out and about again. This weekend is definitely all about the WordCamps and meetups for Human Made. In the UK it’s WordCamp Birmingham. Human Made are a silver sponsor and there will be a good…
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Rob O’Rourke Joins Human Made
I’m really excited to welcome Rob O’Rourke to Human Made as a full-time Senior WordPress Engineer. Although I hate buzzwords, Rob really is one of those rare unicorns; a developer who can design (or a maybe he’s a designer who can develop, I’m never sure :-). Rob joins us from long-time friends and UK-based competitors interconnect/it where he…
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Five for the Future
At WordCamp Europe, Matt put forward the notion that companies should contribute 5% of their effort back to the WordPress project. The thinking being that by doing so we can ensure the long term success of WordPress itself. I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is…
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BackUpWordPress 3.0 released!
Over the last few months we’ve been working hard to release 3.0 and we’re now delighted to share with everyone the latest iteration of BackUpWordPress, we think it’s the best yet! We learnt a lot from the release of 2.0, and became aware things we could have done a lot better (no more modals!), so…
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Helping Airbnb tell their Berlin Wall anniversary story
It’s been a really exciting but intensive couple of weeks, working on a microsite for Airbnb to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Airbnb commemorated the occasion by releasing a short animated film, “Wall and Chain”, telling the story of two former border guards from East and…
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Super Sofia – WCEU and HM Retreat in photos
What happened in Sofia at WCEU and the Human Made retreat? Ssshh don’t tell! On the way to Sofia from Australia, Brazil, Norway and UK. Some journeys were better than others! Exploring the city on the non-official and very rainy walking tour of Sofia. The joint GB-Ukrainian-Italian-Russian team came third in the Paintball Battle of…
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From tech to tables – out and about with Happytables
We attend lots of tech related conferences as you can see from our Community page, but recently we’ve been expanding our conference horizons in a totally different direction. Happytables, our all-in-one restaurant website solution, has been growing in popularity and this week we’ve been attending some events that have given us the opportunity to further…
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