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About Muhammad Younus
Freelance WordPress Developer & SEO Expert

I'll skip the "passionate developer who loves crafting digital experiences" intro. You've read that on fifty other websites and it didn't tell you anything useful.

I'm Muhammad Younus, a freelance WordPress developer and SEO expert based in Karachi, Pakistan. I've completed over 400 projects on Upwork with a 99% job success rate, a Top Rated Plus badge, and more than $100K in verified earnings. Most of my clients are business owners in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia who need a WordPress website that actually performs, not just exists. I handle design, development, speed optimization, and SEO. All of it. One person, no agency overhead, no middleman.

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400+
Projects
99%
Success Rate
$100K+
Earned
8+
Years
Top 3%
Upwork Talent
Origin Story

How I Became a Freelance WordPress Developer

I got into WordPress in 2017. Not because I had some grand plan about becoming a freelance WordPress developer. I needed to build a website for a project, WordPress was free, and I figured I'd learn it over a weekend.

That weekend turned into a week. Then a month. Then I was debugging layout issues at 2 AM, trying to understand why my CSS worked in Chrome but collapsed in Safari. I once spent an entire evening on a problem that turned out to be a missing semicolon.

Those early days were humbling, but they taught me how WordPress actually works under the hood, not just how to drag blocks around in a page builder.

Before WordPress, I studied Computer Science at the University of Karachi. The degree gave me a solid foundation in programming logic, data structures, and the kind of problem-solving you need when a client's WooCommerce checkout breaks at 11 PM on a Friday.

Career

Career Path - From Junior Developer to Freelance WordPress Developer

Upwork Freelance
2017 - Present
The constant throughout. Started with $50 theme installations and $100 speed fixes. Eight years later: $100K+ earned, 400+ completed projects, Top Rated Plus badge. Being a freelance WordPress developer on Upwork taught me more about real client needs than any job ever could.
West Coast Integrated
2024 - Present
Senior development role focused on WordPress and WooCommerce. I take on my own freelance clients through Upwork alongside this.
Bataes.io
2022 - 2024
More complex builds. API integrations, custom plugin development, membership sites with LearnDash. This is where I got serious about SEO after noticing the sites we built looked great but got zero organic traffic. That gap between development and visibility is what pushed me to learn technical SEO properly.
Web Works Digital
2019 - 2023
This is where I learned the business side. Started as a developer, ended up leading a team of three. Built everything from business websites to full e-commerce platforms. Client communication, project management, and meeting deadlines under pressure became second nature here.
Day to Day

What This Freelance WordPress Developer Actually Does

On any given week, I'm juggling 4-5 active projects. A typical mix:

Building a new WordPress website for a medical practice in Florida.
Fixing a speed problem on a WooCommerce store loading in 6 seconds.
Running a monthly SEO audit for a travel agency I've worked with for over two years.
Migrating a law firm from Wix to WordPress without killing their existing rankings.
Answering "quick questions" from three maintenance clients that are never actually quick.
Active Workload
Active Projects4-5
Sites Managed15+
Avg Response< 4hrs
Client RegionsUS, UK, CA, AU
I manage 15+ active client sites at any given time. Some I built from scratch, others I inherited from developers who moved on.
Tech Stack

My Tech Stack as a Freelance WordPress Developer

I don't list every technology I've ever touched. Here's what I actually use:

Development Stack
Astra Pro + Elementor Pro is my core. Fast, flexible, and clients can edit things themselves after handoff without calling me for every phone number change. For custom functionality, I use Pods + Elementor instead of raw PHP wherever possible. Less custom code means fewer maintenance headaches for everyone.
SEO Stack
Rank Math Pro for on-page. Google Search Console and GA4 for tracking. Screaming Frog for crawl audits. Ahrefs for backlinks and keyword research. All of it tied together with Koray Tugberk's semantic SEO methodology for content structure and topical authority building.
Speed Stack
WP Rocket for caching, Cloudflare CDN for global delivery, ShortPixel for image compression. I've taken client sites from 6+ seconds to under 2 seconds more times than I can count.
Security Stack
Wordfence, Sucuri, and manual file-level hardening. I've cleaned up enough hacked sites to know "it won't happen to me" is the most popular sentence people say right before it happens.
Track Record

The Numbers Behind 400+ Projects

Numbers don't lie and they don't need fancy copywriting:

400+
Completed Projects
99%
Job Success Score
$100K+
Earned on Platform
8+
Years Experience
15+
Sites Under Management
Top 3%
Upwork Talent
4.9/5
Client Rating
< 4hrs
Response Time
Every single one of these comes from verified Upwork transactions. Not self-reported, not rounded up generously.
Why Me

Why Clients Hire This Freelance WordPress Developer Over Agencies

I've worked with enough clients who came to me after bad agency experiences to know the three things that frustrate people most: the developer disappeared, the project took three times longer than quoted, or the final result didn't match what was promised. My entire process is built to prevent that:

4-Hour Response Time
I respond within 4 hours on Upwork. Not a template. Not a chatbot. The actual person building your site, reading your message and writing back.
Fixed-Price Quotes in 24hrs
Not ranges. Not "depends on scope." An actual number with a scope document. You know what you're paying before anything starts.
Real-Time Progress on Staging
I build on staging sites you can access. You see progress in real time, not just at the end when it's too late to change course.
SEO Built Into Every Project
Heading structure, schema markup, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, image optimization - all go in during development, not as an upsell after launch.
Personal

A Bit Outside of Work

I don't have hobbies that make great about page content. I read a lot, mostly technical SEO articles by Koray Tugberk and the occasional business book. I spend too much time testing whether new Elementor updates break existing client sites. And I'm fairly sure the best debugging happens between 11 PM and 2 AM for reasons nobody has scientifically explained yet.

I live in Karachi with my family. The timezone difference with US clients means I work evenings, which is fine because that's when my brain decides to cooperate anyway.

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