Velda (@supernovia) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Contributing to WordPress.org through Five for the Future, with a focus on community support, education, and the occasional trek through new ideas.

Interests

Open source, community, design, exploring new trails and ideas, and making the most of life with my senior rescue dog.

WordPress Origin Story

I first met WordPress while working at a hosting company, and my local open source user group nudged me toward WordCamp in 2008. I’ve been hooked ever since: the software drew me in, but the community made me stay.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '25 Meta Contributor '26 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '26 Photo Contributor '24 WordPress.tv Contributor '26

COMMUNITY

5 badges

Community Contributor '25 Community Team '25 WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14 WordCamp Volunteer '26

PRACTICE

2 badges

P Pathways Contributor '26 P Pathways Maintainer '26

Current Job

Happiness Engineer

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

6contributions

high2

medium4

score10

Last 90 days

23contributions

high10

medium13

score43

Last 12 months

442contributions

high132

medium310

score706

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 07 Wed · 23:22

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Heyo! WPF Scholarships: find the source of its occasional API-created conversations. It's done with Zapier…

Oct 06 Tue · 18:02

GitHub med

Closed pull request #270 on WordPress/contributor-handbook:
Update how to

September 2026

Sep 28 Mon · 17:33

GitHub high

Merged pull request #272 into WordPress/contributor-handbook:
Revise instructions for adding captions to WPTV videos

Sep 25 Fri · 18:09

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #272 to WordPress/contributor-handbook:
Revise instructions for adding captions to WPTV videos

Sep 18 Fri · 21:25

Meta high

Updated the handbook page How to request a video message from Matt on Make WordPress Community.

Sep 10 Thu · 03:26

Community med

Closed issue #1058 on the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
[Design Request] New Meetup.com image for Greenfield WordPress Meetup

Sep 07 Mon · 13:27

Meta high

Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Community.

Sep 05 Sat · 20:32

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Call for testing: WordPress community groups on events.WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Hi! I've some feedback from a few sources! I ran out of time to do…

Sep 04 Fri · 13:25

GitHub high

Merged pull request #271 into WordPress/contributor-handbook:
Add Pathways badge design

August 2026

Aug 30 Sun · 19:06

Meta high

Made 4 updates to handbook pages on Translate WordPress.