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Courtney Robertson
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This Week at WordPress.org (September 4, 2023) News WP Briefing: Episode 61: Community, Summit, all at Washington D.C. WordPress 6.3.1 Maintenance Release The Future of WordPress & What’s Next for Gutenberg WP20 – A Heartfelt Thanks Community Summit Notes Community…
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From the mid-2000s to 2010s I was doing a lot of freelancing. Some of it was purely consultative, like writing RFPs and evaluating proposals for a few startups and corporate clients that wanted to use open-source web platforms. WordPress was…
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