The Human Made blog
The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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Lightweight Image Previews in WordPress with Gaussholder
Last year, Facebook Engineering published their technique for generating 200 byte preview images. Today we’re releasing Gaussholder, a placeholder generator for WordPress using this technique.
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Introducing our WordPress REST API White Paper
At Human Made, we’re pretty enthusiastic about the WordPress REST API. Today we’re excited to release our WordPress REST API white paper: Talking to 25% of the Web: An in-depth report and analysis on the WordPress REST API.
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Samantha Miller Joins Human Made
It’s been public for a while, but today we would like to officially announce that the incredibly talented Samantha Miller has joined Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. Sam was previously the lead WordPress developer at Grapple and, along with our very own Matthew Haines-Young, is one of the organisers of the Leeds WP Meetup. Sam has spoken about WordPress development at several…
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Fränk Klein Joins Human Made
We can’t be more excited to welcome on board Fränk Klein, who’s joining Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. Fränk come to us from Automattic where he worked on both WordPress.com VIP and Premium Themes. His experience delivering WordPress at enterprise scale is a perfect fit for the kind of high-profile WordPress projects our reputation is built on. Fränk is…
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Making use of the WordPress REST API Infrastructure
WordPress 4.4 was released and it shipped with infrastructure for the WordPress REST API. As a company, we are invested in developing this great WordPress feature and we love using it on client projects. Using the WordPress REST API in production If you’re wondering how you can leverage this new feature, we have an interesting example…
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Ten humans get props for WordPress 4.4
WordPress 4.4 ”Clifford”, named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, was released last week with a record-breaking 471 contributors! Congratulations to release lead Scott Taylor – WordPress 4.4 is one of the most full-featured WordPress releases in a while. As a company, we’ve always been extremely dedicated to the WordPress project and the massive community of people who…