Saad Iqbal (@saadiqbal) – WordPress user profile

Bio

👋 Hi, I’m Saad Iqbal — a passionate technologist, entrepreneur, and the founder of WPExperts. With over a decade of experience in the WordPress ecosystem, I’ve led the development of dozens of plugins and products used by 1.5M+ active users worldwide.

🚀 I’m deeply committed to creating scalable, secure, and user-friendly solutions for businesses of all sizes. Whether it’s eCommerce, membership systems, gamification, or custom integrations — I love solving problems that matter.

WordPress Origin Story

My journey with WordPress started over a decade ago, not as a developer — but as a problem solver.

I was running a small web agency and needed a flexible, scalable platform to serve my clients efficiently. I stumbled upon WordPress and quickly realized it wasn’t just a blogging tool — a robust framework that could build almost anything. I got hooked.

What began with customizing themes and tweaking plugins soon evolved into developing our products. I founded WPExperts with a simple mission: creating solutions for real-world problems for WordPress users. Today, we’re proud to be a Pro partner for Automattic for Agencies, with plugins powering over 1.5 million websites globally.

But what truly kept me invested in WordPress wasn’t just the technology — it was the community. The open-source spirit, the willingness to share knowledge, and the global network of passionate contributors inspired me to give back, innovate, and grow alongside it.

WordPress gave me more than a career — it gave me purpose, people, and a platform to build for the future.

Badges

CODE

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Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

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Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

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Meetup Organizer '20 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '22 Translation Editor '22

Current Job

Founder

Present

WPExperts.io

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

2contributions

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Team focus

Across 2 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

Time commitment

5 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

WPExperts

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 28 Mon · 12:28

Forums med

Created a topic, Great SEO tool with a unique Spam Monitor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Been using SEO Repair Kit and really like the overall …

June 2026

Jun 16 Tue · 11:25

Forums med

Posted a reply to snippet scrambled, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tomangell Thanks for letting us know that the issue is fixed now. We would appreciate…

June 2025

Jun 18 Wed · 14:32

Forums med

Created a topic, Attention Please: Outlook, Hotmail & Microsoft 365 Email Accounts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Post SMTP users 👋 If you’re using Outlook, Hotma…

April 2025

Apr 11 Fri · 11:47

Plugins high

Committed [3271015] to Plugins SVN:
update version

Apr 11 Fri · 11:46

Plugins high

Committed [3271013] to Plugins SVN:
update version

Apr 11 Fri · 11:45

Plugins high

Committed [3271012] to Plugins SVN:
create branch/tag for v1.5.2

Apr 11 Fri · 11:44

Plugins high

Committed [3271011] to Plugins SVN:
update stable tag to 1.5.2

Apr 11 Fri · 11:44

Plugins high

Committed [3271009] to Plugins SVN:
changed plugin ownership

November 2024

Nov 07 Thu · 07:06

Forums med

Created a topic, Power BI Report Access Error for Azure AD Admin Pro Account, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi I'm using your plugin to embed the PowerBI repor…

Nov 07 Thu · 06:46

Forums med

Posted a reply to Change of ownership?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@zodiac1978 all open issues are solved at github as you already knows, thanks for all…