Full-stack WordPress & web engineering, with WordPress + AWS at scale.
We're a Dubai-based engineering studio building and running media-grade websites and publishing platforms. The name is hu·MAN + TEK·nologies, and it echoes the Arabic منطق (man·tiq): "logic."
We specialise in WordPress engineering, and where a site has to hold national-scale traffic, WordPress + AWS. We've run the digital platforms of a leading pan-Arab newsroom in production for years (load-tested to 50,000 concurrent readers, absorbing 20× traffic spikes with no spike-driven outages), and that experience is the backbone of everything we build.
- WordPress & web engineering: sites and systems built to stay fast, secure, and maintainable for years.
- WordPress + AWS at scale: CloudFront, S3, Lambda and SES/SNS in front of WordPress, so the newsroom stays simple while delivery absorbs the load.
- Hosting, domains, DNS & email · security & maintenance: the full operational layer, run properly.
- NUZ: our cloud-native publishing platform for high-traffic newsrooms.
Every plugin here came out of a problem we hit in production, and every one is paired with the write-up that explains it. Read the article to understand the failure, install the plugin to fix it.
| Plugin | The problem it solves | The write-up |
|---|---|---|
| wp-arabic-search | WordPress compares Arabic byte for byte, so one word spelled two ways never matches. On a real archive that meant 1 result where there were 28,238. | Arabic search in WordPress: the matches it silently misses |
| wp-arabic-slug-schema-guard | A routine core update silently truncates long Arabic URLs, and by the time the 404s appear the data is gone. | The 200-byte trap: why WordPress core updates break Arabic URLs |
| wp-edge-images | Every image size is generated on upload, instead of served on the fly from the edge. | Make WordPress do less: offloading media to S3 and the edge |
| wp-fleet-cron | Behind a load balancer, wp-cron silently misses schedule. | WordPress cron behind a load balancer: fixing 'Missed schedule' |
| wp-ses-mail | WordPress reports the mail as sent when it never left the server. | Your WordPress says the email sent. It didn't. |
All GPL-2.0, all must-use plugins, all on Packagist under mantekio/:
composer require mantekio/wp-arabic-searchTwo of the five exist only because Arabic breaks WordPress in ways English never surfaces. That is not a niche problem: it is most of the web's right-to-left traffic, and almost nobody upstream is testing for it.
Client work and our production architecture stay private. The generically useful parts live here.
syria-government-design-system is not code. It is an independent analysis, in English and Arabic, of how a national government design system for Syria could be built, benchmarked against fourteen international government design systems. Published under CC BY 4.0 as the companion to the write-up of the same name. Not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the Syrian government.
We publish engineering deep-dives (WordPress at scale, AWS architecture, and the hard-won lessons of keeping newsrooms online) at mantek.io/insights, in English and Arabic.
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Dubai, U.A.E. · info@mantek.io