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A physicist who builds the layer beneath the story.

UmarJaum is the public identity of Muhammad Umar Jabbar — a physicist from Pakistan, independent developer and the SEO engineer and CEO behind PublishRank.

Physicist

A scientific habit of modelling systems, measuring outcomes and trusting evidence over assumptions.

Developer

Architect and developer of PublishRank — from WordPress internals to release engineering.

SEO engineer

Technical SEO, structured data, sitemaps and discovery systems built for real publishing desks.

Software should respect the work.

I build from the assumption that the people operating a system need to understand it. That means useful defaults, readable output, visible trade-offs and documentation that stays close to the actual product.

PublishRank is the clearest expression of that approach so far: a free, open-source WordPress SEO plugin for publishers, newsrooms, magazines and content-heavy sites — now listed on WordPress.org.

The goal is not to promise rankings. The goal is to help a publishing team own its technical foundation: metadata, schema, sitemaps, redirects, crawl controls and editorial workflow.

Why physics matters here.

Physics is the study of systems that can be described, measured and predicted. Search and publishing are systems too — full of signals, feedback loops and noise.

Bringing that scientific discipline to SEO means fewer guesses and more evidence: inspectable schema, observable sitemaps and settings that explain exactly what they change.

What the work values

Three principles.

01

Make the invisible visible

Publishing systems should show their decisions: ownership, metadata, schema, sitemap coverage and what happens when something conflicts.

02

Build for the desk, not the demo

Tools are shaped around the real rhythm of editors, developers and publishers who need to ship without guessing.

03

Leave a trail of evidence

Documentation, diagnostics and source-level clarity are features. The system should be explainable after the launch day.