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    Zine-style collage titled “WordPress Accessibility Remediation”: six collaborators, one using a wheelchair, around a laptop showing an accessibility audit; comic panels trace 557 findings to 16 root causes, then 779 findings returning.

    WordPress accessibility remediation went faster on my 2008 site once Claude grouped 557 open findings into 16 root causes and fixed each one at its source. It went wrong whenever Claude assumed instead of measuring. On the morning of my talk, the live site showed 779 open findings again. Here’s the method, the mistakes, and […]

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    Courtney in a white floral dress smiles and points toward an EvolveDigital banner reading “Connect. Learn. Inspire.” with Evolving Web and Pantheon logos, surrounded by colorful framed artwork. She is especially pointing to the Pantheon logo as a sponsor at the bottom of the banner.

    Today is my first day as a Technical Writer at Pantheon. On August 17, I published a list of the roles I wanted next. Technical writing and documentation were right there. I wanted work that helps people understand software, solve problems, and get back to building. Four weeks later, here we are. Apparently, sometimes the […]

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    WordPress block editor on a phone, with empty title and content fields beneath two crowded navigation bars.

    Outpost Plugin Coming Soon The most honest review of my publishing setup was my thumb. A thought worth keeping would arrive while I stood in a parking lot, and my thumb would open someone else’s app. That app was three taps away. My own WordPress site wasn’t. Search for how to post to WordPress from […]

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    Courtney Robertson, wearing purple floppy disk earrings, takes a selfie inside Automattic’s sunlit NoHo office

    I watched three presenters race the clock building the same landing page with AI in WordPress, Elementor, and Drupal. Then a panel got honest about governance, translations, and token bills. Here's what stuck with me.

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    Infographic of this post: Open Source Programs, Docs, and SBOMs

    July 24 was my last day at GoDaddy. I would rather write about what comes next than about what ended, so that is what this post does. I spent five years at GoDaddy. I directed the WordPress open-source program there from its start, decided which foundations and projects received the company’s open-source funding, and built […]