The story behind Mosaic

Two software engineering students shared a small dorm room at university in Gyor, Hungary. Roland Soos and Daniel David quickly became friends, discovering that they shared a deep curiosity about how the web works.

Roland had been building websites since childhood, while Daniel was experimenting with design and digital interfaces. Their conversations about code and product ideas soon turned into real experiments. One of those experiments was an Accordion Menu Roland had originally built for a Magento store. After releasing it publicly, the small tool quickly spread across developers´ projects.

While Roland focused on the technical side, Daniel brought a different energy to the table, shaping how the product should look and feel. That balance between structure and creativity later became the foundation of every Nextend product.

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What started as a dorm room project slowly became something bigger. Roland and Daniel moved the project forward and opened their first small office, marking the beginning of Nextend as a real company.

Around this time, Gabor Racz joined the team as the first developer and support engineer. Not long after, Laszlo Szalvak also joined. Since then, both of them have played a key role in supporting users and improving the products every day.

During this period the team released the free version of Nextend Social Login, making it easier than ever to log in with social accounts. The plugin quickly became a go-to tool for WordPress site owners.

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Launching a new slider in an already crowded market felt risky. But we believed creators needed something different. With Smart Slider 3, we focused on structure, clarity, and creative freedom. The plugin combined a freeform canvas editor, reusable slide structures, and an ever-growing template library.

As Smart Slider grew into our flagship product, the team grew with it. Norbert Tenk joined as a full-time developer, bringing strong engineering focus to the project. Benjamin Kohidi-Nagy later joined the team after previously working with us as a collaborator.

Today, Smart Slider powers more than 800,000 websites worldwide, and the template library continues to expand with every new release.

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Over the years every product we built taught us something. Smart Slider helped us understand what makes an editor feel fast, how creators actually work on a canvas, and how small UI decisions can shape the entire experience. Those lessons slowly pointed in one direction.

What if visual building in WordPress wasn’t a compromise? Not a gimmick. Not a tradeoff. Just a faster way to build real websites with structured classes, reusable components, and scalable design. That idea eventually became Mosaic.

Mosaic brings together everything we learned over the years: your theme, builder, and design system working as one unified system. After years of development, Mosaic officially left beta in March 2026.

During this period, the team continued to grow. Robert Tamas joined to support our users and create educational videos, while Sara Humenyanszky joined to lead marketing and content creation.

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