Open a sponsor tier page and look for the sentence that says what comes back. I did it for seven open source projects. One gives the vote away for free. 🗳️ https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/11/open-source-sponsorship/ #opensource #WordPress
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Open source sponsorship returns a board seat in one project, a class vote in another and a logo in a third. Here is what each payment returns in seven organizations, where the money goes in WordPress, and what the public record does and does not show about the hosting page.
Open Tools > Site Health > Info. Every project listed there has its own rule for who approves a change. PHP votes. Oracle leads MySQL. 🧱 https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/10/open-source-stack/ #opensource #WordPress
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🔀 WordPress 7.2 gives every site a random post button. The off switch is a line of PHP, which is a fun surprise for anyone who doesn’t write PHP. https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/07/wordpress-random-default-costs/
You can want a random post button and question its default. Follow the WordPress record, the community replies and the work a merge gives other people.
🍴 Open source licenses are generous about code and stingy about everything else. Fork the plugin, sure. Its name, its directory listing and a seat at the table aren't in the box. https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/06/how-open-source-licenses-work/ #opensource #WordPress
An open source license is permission from the people who hold the copyright. Here is what that permission covers, how permissive and copyleft licenses differ, who can change a license, and what no license decides.
Free beer: costs nothing. Free speech: you're allowed. Software licenses picked the second one, which is why the free software booth is the one handing you an invoice. 🍺 https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/04/free-as-in-freedom/ #opensource #WordPress
🛠️ If you've built a child theme, patched a plugin, or forked someone's code, you've used the four freedoms of open source. Here's what the license grants, and what it doesn't. #opensource #WordPress https://courtneyr.dev/2026/11/03/four-freedoms-of-open-source/
Free has two meanings in English, and software licenses care about only one of them. Here is what free as in freedom promises, what it leaves to the price tag, and where WordPress lands.
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