• The first WordCamp Germany

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    After a four-year break, a WordCamp finally took place in Germany again. Karin and I (Dominik) were there to take part in the event and promote WordPress in terms of…

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  • A birthday party above the rooftops of Athens

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    Inspired by the community and that we can now meet again at such events, we were full of anticipation for WordCamp Europe (WCEU) in Athens, where we celebrated the 20th…

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  • Building Web Apps with AI: A Designer’s Journey with Chat-GPT

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    In this article, I will not only share the final product, but also take you on an expedition, into the process that shaped it. By sharing my journey, my goal…

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  • 345 km apart from all colleagues

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    Until half a year ago, I was still working in a “9-to-5” job in an office in Nuremberg. In direct comparison, I noticed some effects that working 100% remotely has…

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  • New to the team: Tuğçe Nur Taş

    Tuğçe Nur is an organizational talent that has a bird’s-eye view of projects, which allows her to keep them on…

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  • Early Christmas in Locarno

    This year, we already met at the beginning of December for Christmas dinner. We decided to get together in the…

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  • Jeff Chi – Our newest team member

    It is with pleasure that I introduce our new team member for our German office. Jeff Chi joined our team…

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  • The use of WordPress full site editing in a customer project

    WordPress is constantly evolving at an incredible rate. The 5.9 release at the beginning of 2022 brought one of the…

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  • Team Retreat 2022 in Lucerne

    Our belated annual Christmas dinner took place at the end of February. This year we met in Switzerland to get…

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  • New Year, New Brand

    Just in time for the new year, we have got ourselves a new logo. Certain people will have noticed this…

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  • New Swiss Data Protection Act

    A stricter data protection law will apply in Switzerland from the beginning of 2023 at the latest. Therefore, every website…

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  • A team retreat off-the-grid

    In August 2021, we planned a retreat in a villa in the countryside of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With many team…

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  • A new online magazine about art

    V/A – Various Artists is an online magazine for cultural professionals initiated by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, which…

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  • Energy-efficient Websites

    If the internet were a country, it would have the third largest electricity consumption in the world. In this blogpost…

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  • Team Retreat during a pandemic

    As a remote team, we are extremely dependent on meeting in person from time to time. This proved to be…

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  • From the Classic- to the Block-Editor
    – why it is worth switching now

    Since the creation of the WordPress Block Editor in 2018, we have been equipping all our customer projects with the…

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    – why it is worth switching now
  • WordPress Version 5.5 “Eckstine” is now available

    The latest version of WordPress, which is called “Eckstine” in honor of jazz singer Billy Eckstine, has been available for…

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  • Corina is required!

    We are happy to welcome Corina in our team! As a frontend developer Corina will support us and our customers…

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  • Virtual conventional recruitment

    Almost a year ago, in the article “We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can be” we wrote about…

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  • Working in a Co-Living Space in Santa Cruz, California

    I was invited to attend a VIP Event at the Santa Cruz Bicycles Factory in Santa Cruz and decided to…

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  • New Year’s trip 2020

    To compensate the time apart, we have “Company Retreats”, where we meet as a team at a chosen place to…

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  • CMS – traditional or headless?

    What is the difference between the architecture of a traditional and a headless content management system? How do we deal…

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  • We are required in Berlin

    It has almost become a tradition attending the yearly WordCamp Europe, which we did this year too. We met a…

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  • Do it yourself – the User Testing Toolbox

    The goal with the User Testing Toolbox is to motivate developers and designers to get started with user testing. Even…

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  • Working remotely in Basel

    Around the last 10 months I have been visiting and testing different co-working spaces and cafés to find a place…

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  • We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can be

    We keep our team as small and efficient as possible. But the time has come to extend our team with…

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  • On working from home

    Since we are a remote company, everyone is free to choose wherever they want to work from. In my case,…

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  • Traduttore 3.0

    Traduttore is our open-source WordPress plugin that allows you to host your own WordPress.org-style translation API for your WordPress projects.…

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  • XMAS Trip 2018

    Since we are a distributed team, the Christmas trip is one of the few occasions where we get to spend…

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  • Company Retreat 2018

    Because not every team member was able to attend the WordCamp Europe in Serbia this year, we caught up with…

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  • Impressions from the WordPress Conference

    After taking place in the capital of France last year, the WordCamp Europe moved east to Belgrade, Serbia. For us…

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  • Improving Our Translation Workflow

    We set out on a mission to reduce the repetitive work involved in managing translations for our custom built themes…

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  • Remote First: Decentralized Working as a Business Strategy

    To meet the future, companies today must rethink and reshape their structures. Working in cafes, co-working spaces, or simply from…

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  • The new WordPress Editor is coming

    At the annual “State of the Word” in 2016, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg introduced the idea of a completely redesigned…

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  • Strategy Meeting

    A remote team needs to develop itself and should set itself goals to become better, just like any other team.…

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  • Working from 2252 metres ASL

    Laax has a co-working space on top of the Crap Sogn Gion, 2252 meters above sea level. That’s why I…

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  • Working at a tropical co-working space

    This year I ended up deciding to go to South East Asia for three months. As recommended by friends, one…

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  • Why we are a remote team

    Since we’re a remote team, we don’t see each other physically. We would like to share our story of why…

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  • XMAS Trip 2017

    As we all like visiting new cites, it was very quickly clear what we wanted to do for our XMAS…

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  • WordCamp Bern 2017

    I always thought it would be cool to organize a WordCamp in Bern as it is quite central in Switzerland…

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  • Hello Gutenberg

    At the annual State of the Word in 2016, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg shared his idea of a completely revamped editor.…

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  • WordPress Community Summit 2017

    While about 2000 people attended WordCamp Europe in France’s capital city, the WordPress Community Summit was a far more intimate…

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  • Photo Shoot in Paris

    At required we have built a remote culture where everyone can live their individual lifestyles and work from wherever on…

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  • WordCamp Europe in Paris

    As a remote team, we use the WordCamp Europe to catch up with each other by combining the conference with…

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  • Work Week & WordCamp Bilbao

    Dominik, Karin, Pascal and Velthy spent a week in Bilbao to get some work done and to attend the local WordCamp…

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  • Dominik Schilling joined required

    It’s with great pleasure that we announce WordPress core developer and former release lead of 4.6, Dominik Schilling joined our German branch as…

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  • On Internationalization and Localization

    Despite being the only WordPress person at a Drupal community event, the WordPress talk was very well received. That’s why I decided…

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  • A quick recap on 2016

    Let’s take a moment to look back at a successful 2016. We had the pleasure to build amazing projects for…

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  • Ulrich Pogson joined our team as WordPress developer

    We are thrilled to announce that Ulrich Pogson has joined required as a part-time WordPress developer back in August 2016. We met…

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  • The journey of Freshjobs

    I’d like to tell you a story –  the story of how I teamed up with great people to build…

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  • A brief history on required and why the + is gone

    The “+” in the name of required stood for an extended network of independent freelancers. However, we decided to establish…

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  • A focus week got us our new (WordPress) website

    We never really found the time to focus on our website and do what we do best: Design and develop…

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  • The Journey From A Side Project To A Digital Agency

    Karin spoke at the WordCamp conference in Vancouver about our journey from a side project to the agency we are…

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  • How to run a Business while travelling the world

    Karin shares our experiences on how to run a business while traveling the world, through her two talks at WordCamp…

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  • A modern take on interactive prototyping

    We take you on a journey of Prototyping, and show you how we at required applied the process of interactive…

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