Welcome to my GitHub! I'm a developer, engineer, and long-time WordPress professional based in Kolhapur, India, helping businesses with WordPress development, Shopify development, website maintenance, and practical technical solutions that are stable, clean, and maintainable.
I've been doing this since 2011 — that's 15+ years of building, shipping, supporting, and contributing to the open-source web.
Alongside client work at WPGenius, I actively contribute to the WordPress ecosystem through speaking, organizing, volunteering, and community events.
- Custom WordPress websites, theme work, and plugin customization
- Shopify store setup, theme customization, and storefront refinements
- Long-term maintenance, performance tuning, and dependable technical support
- Server maintenance & Proxmox-based infrastructure for client sites
- Website: makarandmane.com
- Studio / Agency: wpgenius.in
💡 Pinned repositories below show selected open-source experiments, snippets, and plugin work.
Founder & Lead Developer WPGenius — 2011 to Present
- WordPress development, customization, and long-term maintenance for growing businesses
- Shopify development and storefront improvements for online retailers
- Technical consulting on architecture, performance, security, and reliability
- Server maintenance, Proxmox setup, and infrastructure support
Technical Consultant Independent — 2011 to Present
- Audit, troubleshoot, and stabilize WordPress and Shopify sites
- Plan and execute migrations, performance improvements, and rebuilds
- Ongoing retainer support for teams who need a reliable technical partner
- CMS / Platforms: WordPress, Shopify
- Languages: PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS
- Databases: MySQL
- Infra & Ops: Linux server maintenance, Proxmox virtualization
- Practices: Long-term maintenance, performance optimization, security hardening, clean implementation
I'm an active part of the WordPress community in India and globally — through speaking, organizing, volunteering, and mentoring at meetups and WordCamps.
- 🎤 Speaker & organizer at WordPress meetups and WordCamps
- 🤝 Volunteer and contributor across WordCamp events ⟶ list specific WordCamps (e.g., WordCamp Kolhapur, WordCamp Pune, WordCamp Asia) you'd like to highlight
- 🌱 Contributor on WordPress.org ⟶ add your WordPress profile link below
- 📣 Long-time advocate for clean, maintainable, community-driven open source
✏️ Tip: replace the lines above with specific roles, years, and links once you decide which contributions you want to feature.
- 🐘 WordPress Profile: profiles.wordpress.org/⟶your-handle
- 🛒 Shopify Partner Profile: ⟶ optional, add if public
- 💻 GitHub: github.com/⟶your-github-username
If you need help with WordPress, Shopify, website maintenance, or technical consulting — I'd be glad to connect.
- 🌐 Website: makarandmane.com
- 🏢 Studio: wpgenius.in
- ✉️ Email: makarand@wpgenius.in
- 📍 Based in: Kolhapur, India
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/makarandmane
- 🐦 X (Twitter): x.com/mkrndmane
I've been working with WordPress since 2011 — long enough to remember life before Gutenberg, custom post types as a "new" idea, and when "maintenance" was something most clients only thought about after something broke. Today, I help businesses skip that lesson.
Thanks for stopping by! 🙌 Feel free to explore my repos, open an issue, or reach out for collaboration, consulting, or community work. " Observation: Create successful: /app/profile-readme/README.md