Tessa (they/them), AuRise Creative (@tessawatkinsllc) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m an experienced web developer and I do a lot of professional custom work with WordPress themes and plugins. My primary focus is creating a great user experience, both for those that log into WordPress to maintain their sites as well as their sites’ users. You can learn more about my business at AuRiseCreative.com

About me personally, I am non-binary and disabled and a very vocal self-advocate in the realm of social justice. I maintain a blog about these topics along with parenting and anti-racism on my advocacy website at Just1Voice.com

Interests

Intersectionality, Accessibility, Autism, Disability, Neurodiversity, Martial Arts, Anti-Racism, Gender Identity, Gender Diversity, Parenting, Social Justice, Social Equity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, DEI

WordPress Origin Story

I’ve been a web developer since 2012, both as my day job at a local digital advertising company and as a freelancer. I started working with WordPress in 2016 and making trouble in the WordPress forums since 2017 with an older account that’s now inactive.

In 2018, I founded my company to legitimize my freelance work. My first official plugin was added to the WordPress repository in 2019 and I’ve been making plugins ever since!

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '23

Current Job

Founder, User-Focused Interactive Web Developer

Present

AuRise Creative

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

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score0

Last 90 days

10contributions

high3

medium7

score16

Last 12 months

60contributions

high8

medium52

score76

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 27 Thu · 21:33

Forums med

Posted a reply to V5.1.0 eta?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not yet. I wanted it to be last week but some client work took priority.…

Aug 27 Thu · 21:26

Forums med

Posted a reply to What is this box, and how do I get rid of it?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like your theme is styling the hidden fieldset there. If you go to…

Aug 27 Thu · 21:17

Forums med

Posted a reply to Recaptcha stopped working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@starhorsepax2 and @suhanamansor92 have you made sure you migrated your Google reCAPTCHAs to Google Cloud?…

Aug 27 Thu · 21:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Process for devs to contribute, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
“not interested” label because I’m not interested in the topic (to be honest, I’m sorry)…

Aug 27 Thu · 21:08

Forums med

Created a topic, Directory works fine for anonymous users but doesn’t find users while logged in, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! This isn't an urgent issue. When viewing the te…

Aug 10 Mon · 16:11

Forums med

Created a topic, Process for devs to contribute, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, I'm not sure I understand the process you want …

Aug 04 Tue · 17:34

Plugins high

Committed [3634430] to Plugins SVN:
Marked compatible with WP version 7.0

Aug 04 Tue · 02:13

Forums med

Created a topic, “Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension” WordPress Plugin Name Change, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Good evening plugin users! Please do not be alarmed if…

Aug 04 Tue · 01:53

Plugins high

Committed [3633596] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 5.0.7

Aug 04 Tue · 01:53

Plugins high

Committed [3633594] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 5.0.7 to trunk