Adil Makhdoom
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Adil Makhdoom

Adil Makhdoom

WordPress Website Designer

WordPress Website Developer Building Sites That Stay Fast and Rank

I'm Adil Makhdoom, a freelance WordPress developer and SEO specialist. I build custom WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores that load quickly, stay maintainable, and earn their rankings instead of waiting for them.
Custom WordPressWooCommerceElementorSite MigrationsTechnical SEOSpeed Optimisation
Websites Built
90
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Upwork Job Success
100
%
Happy Clients
60
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According to verified Upwork profile data, as of June 2026.

Top Rated on Upwork 100% Job Success Score Clients Across 3 Continents
WordPress Experience

WordPress runs a bit over 40% of the web, and a lot of that is held together with too many plugins and nobody maintaining it. These are builds where the technical side got the same attention as the design.

IFP Connect
WooCommerce Build & Custom Forms
2026

A WooCommerce store on ifpconnect.com running Elementor and WPBakery with Gravity Forms handling custom enquiry flows, plus a multi-section content structure built to stay editable by the client.

My Peace Trip
WordPress Build & Search Strategy
2026

Built mypeacetrip.com for a UK travel agency selling Umrah packages — a trust-driven niche where buyers research for weeks. Content structure, page hierarchy and on-page SEO shaped around that long consideration cycle.

Desi Collection
E-commerce Build & Maintenance
2025

A WooCommerce clothing store with Stripe payments, product structure and category architecture, plus ongoing technical maintenance including security patching and a full malware clean-up.

WordPress Tools and Skills I Work In
Desi Collection
E-commerce Website Design & SEO

Desi Collection

September 2025
Priti Patel
Website Design & SEO

Priti Patel

August 2025
Kinetic Traders
WordPress Web Management

Kinetic Traders

May 2024

The full project list across every platform is on the homepage.

Services

What I Do on WordPress

Custom WordPress builds

Sites built around your structure rather than bent into a template, with a plugin count kept deliberately low.

WooCommerce stores

Product architecture, payment integration and a checkout that does not lose people halfway through.

Migrations to WordPress

Moving from Wix, Squarespace or another host with every old URL redirected so you keep the rankings you already earned.

Speed and Core Web Vitals

Image handling, caching and cutting the weight that page builders quietly add.

Technical SEO

Schema, heading structure, internal linking, sitemaps and Search Console set up during the build rather than bolted on.

Ongoing maintenance

Updates, backups and security patching, because an unmaintained WordPress site is how sites get compromised.

WordPress Questions I Get Asked

Is WordPress good for SEO?

Yes, and it has the highest ceiling of any platform because nothing is locked. You control robots.txt, you can upload files to your domain root, and Yoast or Rank Math give you granular control over titles, descriptions and schema. The catch is that every technical foundation becomes your responsibility rather than a default.

How much does a WordPress website cost?

A straightforward business site usually lands between $800 and $2,500 depending on page count and how much is custom. A WooCommerce store costs more because product setup, payment integration and testing scale with your catalogue rather than your page count.

Do I own my WordPress website?

Completely. You own the files, the database, the domain and the hosting account. I set everything up in your name from the start, so nothing is ever tied to me, including the hosting login.

Will my WordPress site need maintenance?

Yes, and it is the part people underestimate. Core, themes and plugins all ship security updates, and skipping them is how WordPress sites get compromised. At minimum you need monthly updates, off-server backups and someone watching for problems.

Can you migrate my existing site to WordPress?

Yes. Moving from Wix, Squarespace, Showit or another WordPress host is routine work. What decides whether it goes well is redirect mapping, because every old URL needs a 301 to its new address or you lose the rankings you already have.

Do you use Elementor or build custom?

Both, depending on who has to edit the site afterwards. If you need to update it yourself, a builder makes that realistic. If speed matters more, I build lighter. Elementor and WPBakery both add weight, so it is a deliberate trade rather than a default.

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Need a WordPress developer?

Send me your site or your brief. I will tell you what it actually needs, whether WordPress is right for it, and what it would cost.