Saad Malik / WordPress developer / Austin, Texas
Good websites.
Better systems.
I build WordPress websites and the systems behind them. Custom themes, plugins, ecommerce and integrations—made for the people who use them every day.
Portfolio / 01–06
Selected work.
Results from the original projects.
01 / Custom plugin · Event publishing
Rackspace
The marketing team needed to keep a changing program current across its event sites. My part was the agenda plugin, its multisite support, and guides for day-to-day publishing.
02 / Theme development · Performance
City of Farmers Branch
The tourism team needed a place for local stories within its custom theme. I added the blog template and reworked JavaScript and AJAX behavior to address slow delivery.
03 / WooCommerce · Integration · Migration
Where the Winds Blow
An established Mah Jongg store needed storefront changes, review automation and a new hosting environment. I handled the theme implementation, API connection and server move.
Custom theme · Listing integration
Worth & Associates ↗
An agent had to retrieve current property details from a separate account. I built the theme and integration around that publishing task.
Store migration · Checkout
Malcolm’s Miracle ↗
I used Optimizely heatmaps to shape the storefront changes, then implemented checkout as part of the rebuild.
WordPress website · Performance
Technical Design Group ↗
I compared site configurations with the consultancy before building templates around the team’s content and publishing needs.
02 / What I bring
From the visible
to the very technical.
01
Build it around the business.
Custom WordPress themes and WooCommerce stores, shaped around your content and the people using it.
02
Connect the moving parts.
Plugins, imports and API integrations that turn manual publishing into a manageable workflow.
03
Make the existing site better.
Performance, technical SEO, hosting and migrations. Focused improvements that earn their place in the system.
03 / The person behind the work
Your developer.
From day one.
I’m Saad Malik, an independent developer based in Austin. I built my first client website in 2007. Today, my work brings together WordPress and PHP development, frontend code, technical SEO, integrations, and the hosting work that keeps a site running.
You work directly with me. Sometimes I lead the build; sometimes I join your team to solve a specific problem. Either way, the goal is a site your team can run and code another developer can maintain.
04 / Shared with the community
Useful things.
Built to be used.
Free WordPress theme / 0.1.1
Austin.
Sixteen business designs. Forty editable patterns. A practical starting point for your next WordPress site.
Community WordPress plugin
PostHog for WP.
A community-maintained plugin that adds the PostHog snippet through WordPress settings without editing theme files.
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