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The latest thinking on enterprise WordPress, open source technology, and life at Human Made.
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A Week of REST: 5th – 9th September 2016
Today we’re excited to announce our latest event, A Week of REST, a five-day developer workshop in Matlock, Derbyshire, from 5th – 9th September 2016. As a company, we have a lot of in-house knowledge about the REST API: our developers have been a huge part of developing the feature, we use it for client projects…
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#HMgoes to WordCamp Torino!
If you’ve been to a WordCamp in Italy during 2014 or 2015, you’ve probably taken a detour to a parallel universe at some point. That’s right: whilst WordCamps were held in 34 different countries in 2015, with a huge jump in WordCamps held in Europe (from 17 in 2014 to 29 in 2015), Italy’s last…
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How many humans got props for 4.5?
Since the beginning (back in 2011!) Human Made has been passionate about our continued contribution to WordPress.org. The latest release, WordPress 4.5 Coleman, counts 298 contributors and out of those we’ve counted five proud humans! Props for ”Coleman” are given to Joe, John, Paul de Wouters, Peter and Ryan. Our work on the REST API Since the…
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Announcing A Day of REST Boston + Workshops
We’re thrilled to announce that after the overwhelmingly positive feedback from A Day of REST London, we will be bringing the event to the USA in October for A Day of REST Boston 2016 in partnership with Post Status. A Day of REST Boston will happen on 28th October 2016 with workshops the day before…
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Siobhan McKeown Joins Human Made
I’m amazingly happy to announce the Siobhan McKeown has joined Human Made as our Events Director. We’ve been lucky enough to get to work closely with Siobhan through this last year as we partnered to run A Day of REST, the conference we put on in London recently. Throughout our time working together Siobhan’s experience…
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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…
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Human Made named in Top Enterprise Dev Companies
Clutch, a B2B research company based in Washington, DC that identifies leading software and development firms, included Human Made into their 2015 Top Enterprise Software Development Firms UK Leaders Matrix, together with the likes of Itransition, Intellectsoft, DCSL Software, Bright Interactive, BJSS, Made Tech, and thoughtbot. We’re grateful and honoured to be among the top…
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The Day of Rest site has gone all REST API
Tom announced our A Day of REST WordPress API conference back in September, and since then we’ve been super busy on the conference, and on the site to support it. Due to an unfortunate ceiling malfunction we had to change venue, but we’ve ended up just a few hundred yards across town in the utterly charming…
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WP Remote deserves a better home. So we’re selling it.
Update: WP Remote has now been acquired, read our announcement.
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In Parallel – The Open Source Agency Conference
In Parallel is taking place on 17th & 18th March in the Clarendon Centre, Brighton. There are innumerable open source communities, many of which that have agencies operating within them. We wanted to meet people running agencies in parallel projects, to see what we could learn from one another and how we can collaborate in…
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A Day of REST – the WordPress REST API conference
We are really excited to announce the first of some events that we have been working on. A Day of REST is a one day conference dedicated to the WordPress REST API. It is taking place on 28th January 2016 at Conway Hall, London. If you follow anything in WordPress, you’ll know that the REST…
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#HMgoes to WordCamp Norrköping
Browsing the WordCamp Central website to see where the next WordCamps are going to be held is always exciting for a geography nerd like me. Despite spending a significant part of my childhood with maps and atlases, reading about upcoming WordCamps always makes me discover tiny, quaint towns I have never heard of before. But…
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WCEU 2015 & HM Retreat: The Lowdown
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve returned from WordCamp Europe in beautiful Seville, and our company retreat in Zahara; and after settling back into the workflow it seems like an apt time to recapture the entire event. For many people in our team, this was the first time we all came together for WCEU…
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Humans talk: watch our #WCEU sessions 2015
Word Camp Europe 2015 was on June 26-27 in Seville, Spain – a massive two day event gathering more than 800 people from the vast European community together. As per protocol, it also has the larges number of humans attending than any other WordCamp in the world! And we’re not just attending. We’re organising (Petya),…
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An Aussie goes to a WordCamp in Japan
WordCamp Kansai 2015 happened recently, and I received an invitation to speak. It was an exciting opportunity; I got to see Japan first-hand, catch up with friends, see the home of Wapuu, and talk about WordPress. I’m not new to WordCamps, or speaking, but there was a lot for me to think about after leaving Kansai.…
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Announcing S3 Uploads
My favourite type of plugin is one that has focused single job, requires little configuration and “just works”. I’m not so interested in user facing features, or admin options; I want a plugin to do one thing and do it well. One such plugin that has been in development for some time here at Human…
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