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A WordPress poet — shaping plugins, teams and tools that feel like verse.

Md Obidullah
Head of Maintenance & Support
@ 24 Prensa Pública · since Nov 2025
Rangpur, Bangladesh ·

WordPress ✦ Elementor ✦ PHP ✦ Leadership ✦ Plugins ✦ Open Source ✦ JavaScript ✦ Product ✦ Community ✦ Bangla

01 — About

Code is just poetry
that happens to run.

I’m Obidullah — a WordPress developer and team leader from Rangpur, Bangladesh. I started on Upwork (back when it was oDesk) in 2014, fell for the craft, and never looked back.

Right now I’m Head of Maintenance & Support at 24 Prensa Pública (since Nov 2025), keeping products healthy and the people who use them happy.

Before that I spent four years as a Senior WordPress Developer at SovWare, shaping the Directorist plugin — integrations, AI, performance, security — while mentoring teams and working with product and design. And at ThemeBucket I built Happy Elementor Addons, now one of the most loved add-ons in the Elementor ecosystem.

I give back, too — as a WordPress Core Contributor, translation editor, and former WordCamp organizer.

12+

Years in WordPress

7

Plugins on WP.org

5

Community badges

3

Companies, one craft

02 — Selected work

Things I’ve made
& shipped.

Flagship · Elementor Add-on

Happy Elementor Addons

A widget library that turned into one of the most popular add-ons in the Elementor ecosystem. Built at ThemeBucket (HappyAddons & Pro), loved by designers worldwide.

PHP

Elementor

JavaScript

Widgets

Developer · Plugin

Which Elementor Addon

Instantly discover which add-on a widget on your page comes from. Actively maintained — v1.3.0 shipped Oct 2025.

Developer · Plugin

WP Lever

Small levers to move big WordPress things.

Developer · Plugin

Disable Bulk Smush Limit

Lifts the bulk-optimisation cap in Smush Image Optimization.

Contributor · Plugins

Connector Wizard & friends

Version Switcher, Advanced Card Widget, Contact Form 7 Designer for Elementor.

03 — Journey

A decade of verses.

APR 2014

Freelance begins

First job on oDesk — soon to be Upwork. The start of everything.

JUN 2015 – SEP 2017

WordPress Developer, ThemeBucket

Built ThemeForest-standard themes, accessible designs and dynamic features with the frontend team, and helped customers get set up.

AUG 2016

Joins the WordPress community

Translation contributor, then forums, plugins, and eventually the core team.

OCT 2017 →

Senior WordPress Developer, ThemeBucket

Created HappyAddons & HappyAddons Pro — templating system, template server, live copy-paste — plus WooCommerce, Dokan and subscription platforms, and mentoring juniors.

2019

WordCamp organizer

Helping build the local community that raised me.

MAY 2021 – JUL 2025

Senior WordPress Developer, SovWare

Directorist: BuddyBoss, BuddyPress, GamiPress & Oxygen integrations, block builder, AI with Directorist & FormGent, performance and security fixes — while mentoring teams and working with the CPO, PM and design.

2025

WordPress Core Contributor

Credited in the WordPress 6.9 release. Translation Editor for Bengali.

NOV 2025 – PRESENT

Head of Maintenance & Support, 24 Prensa Pública

Leading maintenance and support — the current chapter.

Core Contributor ’25

Plugin Developer

WordCamp Organizer ’19

Translation Editor ’24

Translation Contributor ’16

04 — Journal

Fresh notes
from the workbench.

  • Apple Lab – The Most Unprofessional MacBook Repair Shop

    Apple Lab – The Most Unprofessional MacBook Repair Shop

    আমি নিশ্চিত খোঁজ নিলে দেখা যাবে ১ স্টার দেয়া ভাইটির ডিভাইস থেকে পার্টস খুলে ৫ স্টার দেয়া ভাইটির ডিভাইসে লাগিয়ে দেয়া হয়েছে! জনাব গাট ফিলিং আগস্টের ১৫ তারিখে…

    7–10 minutes
  • সহজে পেপাল থেকে পেমেন্ট বাংলাদেশে!

    সহজে পেপাল থেকে পেমেন্ট বাংলাদেশে!

    বাংলাদেশে বসে ৫৬টি ব্যাংকে পেপাল থেকে জুমের মাধ্যমে ব্যাংক ডিপোজটে পেমেন্টে নিতে পারবেন মাত্র ১০ মিনিটেরও কম সময়ে!

    5–7 minutes

05 — Philosophy

Written in PHP.

// a small poem, in the language I love
function obi_poet() {
  while ( has_idea() ) {
    write( 'clean, kind, useful code' );
    lead( 'with empathy' );
    give_back( 'to the community' );
  }
  return 'something people love to use';
}

06 — Contact

Let’s write
something together.