Building the nextgeneration ofdigital platforms.
Maku is an Australian WordPress development and hosting company. We design, build, host and look after the sites and platforms that define what comes next – in weeks, not quarters.
Thesis
The best platforms aren’t built once and forgotten. They’re designed, built, hosted and improved by the same people, year after year. That’s how we’ve worked for more than fifteen years, with over 900 WordPress sites on our own servers. One company, start to finish.
Capabilities
What we do.
Five practices, one company. WordPress development and hosting at the core, with AI, marketing, design and security handled by the same people, so nothing gets thrown over a wall to another supplier.
WordPress
Build, host, fix and maintain. Everything a WordPress site needs, from one team.
- Custom development
- Theme development
- Plugin development
- Hosting
- Hacked site repair
- Security
- Maintenance plans
- Support and rescue
- Speed optimisation
- WooCommerce
- Migrations
- Multisite
- Headless WordPress
- Site audit
AI
AI products, agents and automation, built with AI in the loop and shipped in weeks.
All AI services →Marketing
Search and paid media run by the people who build the site, so tracking, speed and landing pages actually line up.
All Marketing services →Design
Brand, print and digital design from the same team that builds the site, so it all matches.
All Design services →Security
Penetration testing, PCI DSS compliance and security advice from the people who build and host the systems being tested.
All Security services →Approach
How we work.
Maku builds and hosts WordPress sites, and keeps them running afterwards. Fifteen-plus years and more than 900 hosted sites have taught us where these projects usually go wrong, and how to avoid it.
WordPress development and hosting are the core of the company, with AI, marketing, design and security handled by the same people. The site you launch, the hosting it runs on and anything you add later come from one organisation, with no account layers and no handoffs between suppliers.
You talk directly to the engineers writing your code. Scope and price are agreed in writing before anything starts, work happens on a staging site you can open any day, and nothing lands as a surprise at the end.
Working software early
We build in short loops and put something you can click on in front of you well before launch, because nothing tests a plan like a real customer using the real thing.
Modern tooling, human judgement
We use current tools, AI among them, for research, scaffolding, tests and first drafts. An engineer decides what ships, reviews every change and is accountable for it.
Direct access to the work
You deal with the engineers and designers building your site, not an account manager relaying messages. No handoffs between suppliers, and no layers to escalate through.
Built to scale
We write the boring parts right – types, tests, monitoring, backups and authentication – so the interesting parts can keep moving quickly without breaking later.
Engage
Building something ambitious?
Let’s build it together.
The best briefs we receive are a few honest paragraphs – what you’re building, who it’s for, what success looks like, and when you want it live.
Hacked site? Put HACKED in the subject line and we’ll treat it as urgent, ahead of the general inbox.