The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Cultural intelligence: how to work with people everywhere
Petya Raykovska is Human Made’s Director of Agency Operations and long-time WordPress Polyglots contributor. Petya will be diving deeper into all things cultural intelligence at this year’s WordCamp US in San Diego during her session Developing Cultural Intelligence. We all speak English. Why don’t we understand each other? The world has gone remote, and today…
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Devs: position checks can save lives!
Well, not really. The powerful headline is to capture your attention, because I really think you need to know how helpful position checks can be. Position checks help avoid project struggles, and I strongly believe that using them can be a step forward for project teams’ communication. Position checks can save dev time in a…
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Can we please stop saying ‘Gutenberg’?
It’s been five years now since the Gutenberg project was first introduced to WordPress. The Gutenberg project was, and still is, a re-imagining of the following WordPress components: When you say “Gutenberg”, you are therefore referring to the entire project, which may not be what you actually mean. For a lot of people, the name…
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Why you shouldn’t use a Super Admin account on WordPress
Within WordPress, site owners give control over different hierarchical permissions of users by using roles. For multisite configurations, the six available roles, in descending order of authority, are: Super Admin Administrator Editor Author Contributor Subscriber Now, if you’re a project leader or run an editorial team, it probably makes sense to want to take the…
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Everyone is a marketer
Recently I was lucky enough to experience my first Human Made/Altis company retreat. We went to Athens for a week, and it was great. The main highlight was undoubtedly getting to meet everyone face to face, many for the first time, and generally hanging out and spending time with people. I realise now how essential…
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How to manage unknowns as a web engineer
As a web engineer working across multiple projects and platforms, there are many things we’re expected to know. However, it’s important to stress that we don’t need to know every single technology or concept we’re likely to come across. Rather, it’s how you manage the unknown that tests your mettle as an engineer, and there…
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Implementing global payroll giving in a remote company
Over the past month, we’ve been watching the devastation that the Russian army has been wreaking on the people of Ukraine. It has left me and other humans heartbroken and feeling powerless. Many of our people are in Eastern Europe, many of us have friends and family in Ukraine, and we will all be dealing…
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Human Made in 2021
At the beginning of last year, I shared how 2020 was a year marked by adaptation. Against the backdrop of considerable challenges globally, 2021 has been a big year for Human Made, our clients & customers, and for our partners too. It has been our most successful year since we began all the way back…
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Mental health and remote work at Human Made
Just under 6 months ago in October 2020 Human Made celebrated World Mental Health Day which was arguably the most important one yet with the global COVID-19 pandemic changing our lives and daily routines and bringing with it a set of new challenges. Although we found strength in our remote-first structure & culture, it has…
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Happy International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day, a day that calls on us all to step back, recognise and celebrate the achievement of women worldwide, raise awareness of the bias and barriers that impact women globally, and take action for equality in whatever ways we each can. To the amazing women at Human Made, thank you! You…
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How Human Made’s values guide our approach to remote work
Human Made has always had a culture which values openness, transparency, accountability, and a can-fix-it attitude. This was true when we were just a few people hacking together websites and it remains true now as we create digital experiences with our platform, Altis DXP. As we’ve grown up as a company, though, and as more…
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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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