Hacked WordPress recovery
- Problem.
- Altered core files, hidden backdoors and rogue admin users.
- Solution.
- File-integrity diagnosis, user audit, clean reinstall, hardening.
- Result.
- 20+ sites recovered and hardened after cleanup.
Senior Web Developer · WordPress · PHP · Next.js
Built toperform.
Fast, secure, easy-to-maintain websites, with performance that’s measured, not promised.
About me
I'm Adriano Fernandes,a senior web developer.
For 8+ years I've built and maintained WordPress sites and stores in code: custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce, performance, technical SEO and security.
In recent projects I work daily with Next.js, React and Tailwind: I built two complete websites with Payload CMS and a custom CMS, and I'm part of the migration of dozens of sites from WordPress to Strapi + Next.js.
I also lead projects technically: setting quality standards, reviewing deliverables and supporting the team.
- 8+
- 20+
- 90+
Expertise
WordPress in code
Custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce hooks and checkout, integrations (Teams, Slack, PDF generation), REST API and WP-CLI.
Performance & SEO
Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse budgets, caching and WCAG accessibility, measured in Search Console, GA4 and Tag Manager.
Security & recovery
Diagnosis of hacked sites, removal of malware and backdoors from files and database, and hardening after the cleanup.
Headless CMS
Next.js, React and Tailwind in production: dozens of sites migrated from WordPress to Strapi, plus two sites on Payload and a custom CMS.
AI-assisted · Spec-driven
The spec leads.AI executes.I review.
I use AI every day to build, refactor and debug faster. It works from a written spec that defines how it should work and which standards it must follow — and nothing ships without my review.
Daily tools
- Claude Code
- Claude Design
- Codex
- Cursor
- Figma
- VS Code
- MCP
- 01
The spec
Scope, acceptance criteria and rules written before any code: WordPress Coding Standards, performance budgets, security and accessibility. The AI follows the spec, not a loose prompt.
- 02
The loop
Claude Code and Codex draft, refactor and investigate inside the IDE. I read every diff and test locally, then on staging.
- 03
The result
Hours → minutes
Work that used to take hours now takes minutes with AI, and every change still goes through my review.
How every task ships
Selected projects
Spec-driven WordPress theme
- Problem.
- Builder-based themes that were slow and hard to maintain.
- Solution.
- A theme from scratch, driven by a written spec: ACF, Tailwind, hardening and SEO from the base.
- Result.
- 90+ on PageSpeed Insights (mobile and desktop). Institutional site in a few days, landing page in up to 1 day, depending on scope.
Lucas Morbidelli
- Problem.
- A real estate broker needed searchable listings on his own site, with the same properties feeding a real estate portal and simpler listing management.
- Solution.
- Built on my spec-driven theme: property search (type, deal, location, bedrooms), listing and detail pages, an XML feed consumed by the real estate platform, and an improved admin panel for managing listings.
- Result.
- Listings published once on the site and synced to the portal via XML.
ASX Technologies
- Problem.
- A business hub connecting companies, partners and investors needed a corporate site for advisory, M&A and a private members circle, with lead capture.
- Solution.
- One-page site on my spec-driven theme: anchor navigation, testimonial and ecosystem carousels, contact form with privacy consent, cookie consent, SEO metadata.
Figma-to-code plugin
- Problem.
- Hand-copied tokens caused drift between design and theme.
- Solution.
- A plugin that extracts tokens and layout references for conversion to code.
- Result.
- Used in my day-to-day design-to-code workflow.
Nasha
- Problem.
- A hose and fire-extinguisher component manufacturer needed a catalog for technicians, manufacturers and distributors.
- Solution.
- Product categories and product pages, downloadable PDF catalogs, a representative recruitment CTA, contact popup, newsletter and Tag Manager.
André Sant’Anna
- Problem.
- A business advisor, mentor and investor needed one site presenting four service lines and capturing qualified leads.
- Solution.
- Custom theme with service blocks, animated stats, client logos, galleries, a contact modal with subject routing, newsletter and an external application form.
Meraki Flores
- Problem.
- A premium flower grower with 15 years in the field needed a fast institutional site to present its products and route buyers to its distribution cooperative.
- Solution.
- One-page WordPress site with anchor navigation, product sections, contact form and SEO metadata (Open Graph, robots).
- Result.
- Lighthouse mobile: Performance 100, LCP 1.3 s, CLS 0, Accessibility 93, SEO 92 (Nov 2026).
Santa Rita de Cássia Sanctuary
- Problem.
- The sanctuary needed one place for its history, events, media and donations.
- Solution.
- Custom theme with an event calendar, photo and video galleries, news, a virtual candle page and a tithes and donations page.
Experience
2026 — Now
Base theme scoring 90+ on PageSpeed, headless migration of dozens of sites to Strapi + Next.js, two Next.js websites, security recovery and technical leadership on projects.
Senior WordPress DeveloperFasters2022 — 2026
Custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce builds and optimization, REST API integrations, performance and technical SEO.
Front-end / WordPress DeveloperFasters2020 — 2022
Institutional sites, WordPress performance and SEO, legacy migration with PHP and REST.
Front-end DeveloperFasters2018 — 2020
Corporate portal in PHP and MySQL, responsive hotsites, SEO and WordPress training.
Web DeveloperIdea Publicidade
Stack & tools
Got a hard web problem?
Performance, security or a migration on the roadmap. I’d like to hear about it.