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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 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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