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