About
Michael McStay Development
Stop Paying Agencies to Ruin Your WordPress Site.
Custom PHP Engineering. Zero Bloat. No BS.
Most WordPress sites are ticking time bombs. You pay an agency thousands of dollars, and they hand you back a sluggish, vulnerable Frankenstein built on a heavy commercial theme and duct-taped together with 40 off-the-shelf plugins.
When it breaks, slows to a crawl, or gets hacked because a random third-party developer abandoned their code, you’re the one left paying the price.
There is a better way to build.
I deliver enterprise-level WordPress engineering without the massive agency overhead. With over 20 years of custom PHP programming experience, I don’t assemble websites—I engineer them from the server up. Everything WordPress. Without the high cost, and without the bloatware.
Custom Code Over Clutter
If your platform needs a specific feature, I don’t hunt for a bloated plugin that kind-of does the job. I write the lean, native server-side code to make it happen exactly the way you need it to.
- Bespoke WordPress Plugins: Lightweight, custom PHP built specifically for your business logic. No unnecessary code, no database bloat.
- Complex Community Platforms: Off-the-shelf social themes fail at scale. I architect high-performance BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, and Ultimate Member networks designed to grow.
- Bulletproof Security & Speed: Your site shouldn’t rely on flimsy client-side scripts. I build server-side geo-blockers, custom access controls, and automated utilities that keep your data locked down and your pages blazing fast.
The Standard is Excellence
Whether you are launching a complex membership network, recovering a hacked site, or need custom backend data structures, I handle the technical heavy lifting that exposes the limits of “drag-and-drop” developers.
You get exactly what you need, and absolutely nothing you don’t.
Stop relying on off-the-shelf garbage. Let’s build your project the right way.