Articles
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Beyond WordPress: A 10+ year evolution at Human Made
It’s with huge excitement that we present Altis, a proven end-to-end enterprise-augmented WordPress platform. Human Made has grown a lot in the last year. In numbers, yes, but predominantly in the services we offer our clients. At the same time, we’ve watched WordPress’ growth from a humble CMS to an open, expansive platform capable of…
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Make shortcodes a piece of cake – the Shortcake story
Once upon a time, a long time ago back in release 2.5 in 2008, the shortcode API was released into the world of WordPress. It allowed users to insert complex page elements, such as a gallery or blockquote, by adding a short piece of code with square brackets, [name attr = “value”], via the post…
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It’s all about the WordCamps
Wow – it’s February already, 2015 is going very quickly. After a Christmas and New Year break the Humans are out and about again. This weekend is definitely all about the WordCamps and meetups for Human Made. In the UK it’s WordCamp Birmingham. Human Made are a silver sponsor and there will be a good…
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Helping Airbnb tell their Berlin Wall anniversary story
It’s been a really exciting but intensive couple of weeks, working on a microsite for Airbnb to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Airbnb commemorated the occasion by releasing a short animated film, “Wall and Chain”, telling the story of two former border guards from East and…
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Super Sofia – WCEU and HM Retreat in photos
What happened in Sofia at WCEU and the Human Made retreat? Ssshh don’t tell! On the way to Sofia from Australia, Brazil, Norway and UK. Some journeys were better than others! Exploring the city on the non-official and very rainy walking tour of Sofia. The joint GB-Ukrainian-Italian-Russian team came third in the Paintball Battle of…
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From tech to tables – out and about with Happytables
We attend lots of tech related conferences as you can see from our Community page, but recently we’ve been expanding our conference horizons in a totally different direction. Happytables, our all-in-one restaurant website solution, has been growing in popularity and this week we’ve been attending some events that have given us the opportunity to further…
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The big Human get together!
As a remote company it’s not often we get the chance to see each other in person, so we’re all very excited about the next few weeks. At the end of September almost the whole of Human Made will be getting together for 10 days. We are kicking off with WordCamp Europe 2014 in Sofia…
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Ryan takes the WordPress API on tour
Ryan has been a leader in the development of the WordPress REST API. He’s recently returned from a mini-tour, spreading the word and making API connections (no pun intended, honestly) in the USA. Covering 4 events and cities in 20 days, Ryan really made the most of his long trip over from Australia. The WordCamp…
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Tom in the WP Think Tank again
Tom is taking his regular seat on the WP Think Tank hangout on Tuesday 26th August at 10pm GMT. WP Think Tank, organised and hosted by Troy Dean of WP Elevation, is live panel hangout of WordPress revolutionaries delving into the latest hot topics and future developments in the world of WordPress. This is the…
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Joe and the Mongol Rally adventure
We really believe that life should be about more than work. With a globally distributed, remote working team it is very easy to just keep on working. This is great, but it can’t go on forever; sometimes it makes a huge difference to take a complete break and have some proper time away. That’s why…
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WordCamp NYC
An international Human Made contingent of Tom, Leanne, Noel and Ryan travelled to the USA to attend WordCamp NYC 2014 on 1st – 3rd August. Never ones to sit idly the HM team got stuck into the event for a busy long weekend. Leanne got involved helping out as a volunteer, working the reception desk…
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WordCamp Manchester from two sides – the organiser
Previously I covered my experience as an attendee at WordCamp Manchester. Now we get a look behind the scenes from our very own Jenny, who was a main organiser. I’ve been chatting to Jenny about what was involved in WCMCR 2014. What is the background to WordCamp Manchester, how did it come about? Mike Little had the idea for a…