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    DevRel tree: Community trunk, branches for Developer Marketing, Experience, and Success, with Developer Education at top.

    Courtney Robertson recaps her appearance on Episode 26 of the Community + Code podcast, discussing DevRel work at GoDaddy, including bridging hosting engineers and WordPress core contributors. The conversation covers practical AI tool use in daily workflows, open-source license risks in AI-generated code, and the growing pressure on open-source maintainers as AI increasingly obscures the dependencies developers rely on.

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    XFN Link Extension interface showing collapsible relationship sections with button groups for selecting friendships, professional connections, and other XFN categories, plus visual pills displaying active relationship selections

    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 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 […]

    Post Formats for Block Themes includes a modal at Post, Add Post. It lays out Standard and all 10 formats in a grid.
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    This Week in WordPress episode 347 showing four participant video tiles

    🎙️ 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 […]