The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Being part of the Digital Project Manager community
I’m a senior project manager at Human Made. As a technology partner to enterprise companies, we have a leaning toward WordPress and agile practices, and we are a fully remote company. For those reasons, the Digital Project Manager family and community are of real value to us. If I was to cook it down to…
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Meet us at WordCamp US!
We’re beyond excited to meet face to face once again for WordCamp US (WCUS), taking place in San Diego, California, 9-11th September 2022. Our Humans are WordCamp veterans, with many of us contributing to the community since the early days. This time round we also have a few newbies attending for the first time! Check…
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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 Matt Mullenweg first introduced the Gutenberg project to WordPress. The Gutenberg project was, and still is, a re-imagining of the following WordPress components: Content editing Site customisation Collaborative editing Multilingual When you say “Gutenberg”, you are therefore referring to the entire project, which may not be what you actually…
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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…