The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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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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