Articles
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Gutenberg, a white paper for agencies and enterprise
There is a dramatic change coming to WordPress. In 2018, the world’s most popular Content Management System will have a new editing framework that completely refreshes the user experience. Gutenberg, as it’s named, will transform the model for editing and managing content layouts, and introduce a new structure for content components. Starting with blocks: Reimagining…
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Human Day: a company-paid working day with our loved ones
Working from home doesn’t just have an impact on Human Made’s employees. It also has an impact on all of the people who live with them.
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WP Remote finds a home with maekit
In 2015, we wrote about giving WP Remote a new home. In 2017 we found the perfect buyer, and now we’re delighted to announce that the future of WP Remote is in the competent hands of the brilliant team at maekit.
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Our favourite sessions at WordCamp Europe 2017
We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite presentations, and giving serious props to these fantastic speakers! Franz Vitulli’s favourite long talk was Big Little Shame — a Tale of Empowered User Experience Through Localisation, by Caspar Hübinger. He felt it was really insightful and spot-on from a linguistic point of view. His favourite lightning talk, The…
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Humans in Paris: WordPress Community Summit & WordCamp Europe 2017
Two weeks ago, people from Europe and beyond descended on the beautiful French capital for an annual celebration of the WordPress community. 1,900 people from 79 countries came together for the biggest WordPress event in Europe. And the humans were there in force! As well as organising, volunteering, and speaking at WordCamp Europe 2017, from…
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Policies to empower humans
We’re sharing our handbook As we’ve grown and evolved as a company this year, we’ve thought hard about what we want to be. It’s easy to want to be inclusive, responsible, people-first; and it’s easy to say you’re those things too. We’ve learned a lot about who we are through writing down how we do…
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Join us for an ‘A HM A’: Ask Human Made Anything
We’re hosting our first company AMA on remote work!
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Announcing Out of Office, a remote work event
We’re thrilled to announce our latest event, Out of Office, an online conference for remote companies and professionals that will be streamed live on November 29th from 4pm – 8pm (GMT). Why? We’ve been a distributed agency since 2012. With 36 employees across the globe, we wanted to explore questions about remote work and share what…
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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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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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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…