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Alejandro Sanchez’s Success Story – Love what you do

Me and my girlfriend Vanessa Alejandro, tell us about yourself, how did you start your career at OnTheGosystems? My name’s Alejandro Jose Sanchez Parra (quite long, eh? They are actually 2 names and 2 last names) and I currently live in Italy but I was born and raised in Venezuela.  I started working at OTGS in October 2018 and have loved every moment since. This job is full of challenges and constantly pushes me to improve myself, both as a...

August 20, 2020

Irina Sozonova

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Ashraf Hesham – What it is like working as a Quality assurance tester at OnTheGoSystems

Ashraf Hesham is this month’s Employee of the month. We are happy to introduce him to you and tell you about his work here at OnTheGoSystems. First of all. Ashraf, can you explain to us what QA is all about? Certainly. Quality Assurance is popularly known as QA Testing. QA testers work mainly for software development companies to examine and improve the processes which lead to the end-product. It’s a systematic process of determining whether our products or services meet...

August 19, 2020

Helena Petridou

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OTGS July News

As the summer is heating up in the Northern Hemisphere, so is the development of our plugins. We are on the verge of releasing two big updates for both Toolset and WPML. Toolset News During July, the Toolset team is completing some of the features we have been working on for the last two months, focused around multilingual sites that want to display rich information to a broad audience. Site owners and maintainers will also enjoy our improved editor support...

July 29, 2020

Laura de Figueiredo

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A first interview at OnTheGoSystems – Izzi Hassan

Our Employee of the month, Izzi Hassan, describes his experience at his first interview for a position at OnTheGoSystems. Izzi, first tell us about yourself I live in Islamabad, Pakistan. My parents are both MBAs from the University of Peshawar in my hometown. My father is a trader in cement here in Pakistan while my mother currently resides in Texas, working as a translator and case handler with refugees. I grew up in Peshawar before moving to Lahore for college...

July 29, 2020

Helena Petridou

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How has working remotely with OTGS benefited your family? – An interview with Andreas Walter

My name is Andreas Walter and I originally come from Germany. My family left Germany in 2012 and settled in Lima, my wife's hometown. We had a significant amount of savings and huge expectations but finding an adequate job was harder than expected.  How did you find the job market in a country like Peru? My first jobs in Peru kept me busy for 50-60 hours a week, with only one day off, no vacations and no paid sick leave...

July 29, 2020

Helena Petridou

Product News

OTGS June News

We are already halfway through the year and it has been a busy six months for the team at OnTheGoSystems. Toolset News In May, we released a number of major (and also some minor) updates for Toolset. Blocks 1.2 is finally out, with new blocks for galleries, sliders and Youtube, and new layouts for Views including Masonry and collage modes. We also concentrated on improving the better overall performance. We released some maintenance updates for these two plugins, and also...

June 30, 2020

Laura de Figueiredo

Three good reasons to support WordCamp events and local WPMeetups

Attending a WordCamp resulted in an exciting career move for Kruno Golubić, May’s Employee of the month. We will get to know Kruno better in the following interview. Kruno, where do you come from? I come from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. In fact, I've lived my whole life here. View of Zagreb When I was a kid, there were seven of us living in the same house -my grandparents, my parents, my two siblings, and me. Life is less...

June 8, 2020

Helena Petridou

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Jamal Boulhous – understanding the needs of our clients from exotic Morocco

Here at OTGS we work closely with colleagues from all over the world. It’s wonderful to get to know about their countries and cultures.   Jamal lives and works in exotic Morocco, a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, distinguished by its Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences. Think of Tangiers, Casablanca, Berber villages in the High Atlas Mountains and camels crossing the Sahara… The view 20 minutes from Ait Ourir Let’s visit Jamal and find...

May 11, 2020

Helena Petridou

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How OTGSians keep learning and contributing to the WP community

Ahmed Mohammed, from Giza Egypt, works with our Compatibility team debugging and fixing issues with themes or plugins. Recently to learn React, he enrolled in a 6-week Bootcamp where there are online lectures and discussion lectures. It's organized by Zac Gordon   Ahmed, what motivated you to learn new programming languages? Back in 2015, Matt Mullenweg asked everyone in the WordPress community to learn JavaScript 'deeply' and, since then, JavaScript and React became heavily used in WordPress core, themes, and plugins....

May 6, 2020

Helena Petridou

Product News

OTGS April News

It’s already April and the majority of the world is still in quarantine. Here at OnTheGoSystems, we continue working remotely from 40 different countries. We want to ensure that we provide you with all you need to either create nice and appealing websites

April 30, 2020

Laura de Figueiredo