Courtney Robertson is an Open Source Developer Advocate, professional educator, and WordPress Contributor
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Recent Posts
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The Web Remembers Who We Are: Building XFN for WordPress in 2025
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about: we’ve spent the last fifteen years building elaborate platforms to tell the internet who our friends are, what we’re eating, and which former classmates we’d rather avoid. We handed our social graphs to corporations, who promptly monetized them, sold them, and occasionally leaked them. And the whole time, buried…
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Post Formats for Block Themes: My First WordPress Plugin After 11 Years
Post formats for block themes have been missing since Full Site Editing launched, and I finally built the solution. I’ve been contributing to WordPress training since 2014. I wrote lesson plans for Learn.WordPress.org. I teach people how to build with WordPress. I’ve spent over a decade helping others create plugins and extend WordPress. But I’d…
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This Week in WordPress 347: Evan
🎙️ Tech Troubles & WordPress Wins — My Take on “This Week in WordPress” #347 The episode opened with classic live-show gremlins—glitchy audio, misbehaving embeds, and post-WordCamp brain fog. The chaos set an oddly perfect tone: WordPress work is messy in real life, yet progress continues to happen. The links below point to the original…
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