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CMS DEVELOPMENT AT A GLANCE
  • Next.js 15
  • Supabase
  • Payload CMS 3
  • Vercel
  • React Hook Form
  • Stripe
  • 95+LIGHTHOUSE AVG
  • 12+ yrsSENIOR-LED
  • Fixed feeNO SCOPE CREEP
  • 200+PROJECTS SHIPPED
CLUTCH 5.0 VERIFIED

Overview — 01

Your hacked WordPress site has two possible futures: pay to clean it and get hacked again in six months, or switch to a stack that removes the attack surface completely.

Emergency WordPress Migration

Emergency WordPress migration is the process of rebuilding a hacked or repeatedly compromised WordPress site on a modern static or server-rendered stack before search engine penalties compound the business damage. The deliverable is a production-ready Next.js site backed by Supabase, replacing every WordPress dependency — themes, plugins, PHP runtime — with auditable, version-controlled code. Google recrawl and Search Console remediation are included in the engagement scope.

The gap — 02

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your host suspended the account or flagged malware, and your site is returning 500 errors or a browser security warning right now.
Risk: Every hour the warning page is live, Google's crawlers record the compromised state. If the manual action or SafeBrowsing flag is not cleared within days, organic traffic can drop by 60 to 90 percent and take months to recover even after the site is clean.
You paid a WordPress security firm to clean the site once, and the reinfection came back within weeks because the underlying plugin or theme vulnerability was never removed.
Risk: Repeated cleanups signal to Google that the site is an ongoing risk. A second manual action in the same domain history makes reconsideration requests significantly harder to get approved, and some hosts will terminate the account entirely after a third incident.
Your development team does not have the bandwidth or the Next.js and Supabase expertise to rebuild under a hard deadline while also managing the existing business.
Risk: Attempting an in-house migration without experience on this stack under time pressure produces incomplete redirects, broken schema, and missing meta data — meaning you rebuild the site but still lose the SEO equity you were trying to protect.

Safeguards — 03

How we build this right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Google Search Console Remediation

We file the manual action reconsideration request and SafeBrowsing appeal on your behalf on launch day, using documented evidence of the stack change to demonstrate the attack surface no longer exists.

Zero Plugin Attack Surface

The rebuilt site ships with no WordPress plugins, no PHP runtime, and no wp-admin endpoint. All dynamic functionality is handled through Supabase APIs and Next.js server actions, with dependencies locked and audited at handoff.

301 Redirect Mapping and Crawl Verification

Every indexed URL from your pre-hack Search Console data is mapped to its equivalent on the new site before launch. Post-launch crawl reports confirm redirect chains resolve correctly and no legacy URLs return 404s.

Scope — 04

What we build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Full Stack Rebuild on Next.js and Supabase

We rebuild the entire site from the codebase up — no WordPress theme ported across, no legacy PHP carried forward. The output is a typed, version-controlled Next.js application with Supabase handling authentication, content storage, and any dynamic data your site requires.

Content and Asset Migration

All posts, pages, images, and structured data are extracted from your compromised WordPress database and reimported into the new stack. Content is audited during migration so malicious injected code in post bodies is identified and stripped before it moves across.

SEO Continuity Package

Canonical tags, Open Graph metadata, structured data markup, and XML sitemaps are rebuilt from your existing Search Console and analytics data. The goal is that Google's next full crawl of the new site sees equivalent or improved on-page signals compared to the pre-hack baseline.

Hardened Deployment Configuration

The site is deployed to Vercel or Cloudflare Pages with strict Content Security Policy headers, no publicly exposed admin routes, and environment secrets managed outside the repository. A post-launch security review document is delivered with the handoff.

Stack — 05

Built on a modern, secure stack

Next.js 15SupabasePayload CMS 3VercelReact Hook FormStripe

Process — 06

Our development process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Damage Assessment and Scope Lock

2-3 days

We audit your Search Console for manual actions and SafeBrowsing flags, export your WordPress database and file system, and catalog every indexed URL and content type. By end of this phase you have a fixed scope document, a confirmed launch date, and a redirect mapping draft.

02

Stack Build and Content Migration

1-2 weeks

We build the Next.js application and Supabase schema in parallel with content migration. Static pages, blog posts, and media assets move across in a single scripted import so no content is rebuilt by hand and nothing is missed from the original site index.

03

SEO QA and Pre-Launch Review

2-3 days

We run a full Screaming Frog crawl of the staging environment against your original URL list, verify all 301s resolve, check metadata parity, and test Core Web Vitals scores. Any issues found are fixed before DNS is touched.

04

Launch, Recrawl, and Handoff

1 week

DNS is cut over to the new deployment, the Google Search Console reconsideration request and SafeBrowsing appeal are filed the same day, and a new sitemap is submitted for immediate recrawl. You receive full repository access, deployment credentials, and a documented handoff package.

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Questions — 08

Frequently asked questions

Yes, we can get your content even without wp-admin access. We go through direct database export and filesystem access via your host's cPanel, SSH, or SFTP. Even if the database is partially corrupted, we can pull posts, pages, media files, and metadata straight from the raw MySQL tables and file directories.
Your rankings are already taking a hit from the "hacked" warning -- Google suppresses flagged sites hard. Migration with proper 301 redirects preserves all your link equity. Add a recrawl request and a fresh sitemap, and most clients see rankings recover faster than they would've from a cleaning job. Part of that is because the new site also gets a meaningful Core Web Vitals boost at the same time.
Next.js removes the three biggest WordPress attack vectors: PHP execution (96% of WP exploits), plugin vulnerabilities (91% of 2025's 11,334 WordPress CVEs), and the /wp-admin brute-force surface. Pages are pre-rendered static HTML on a CDN. Authentication uses Supabase with bcrypt, JWT, and Row-Level Security. There's simply no server-side code to inject into at the page level.
Your plugins get replaced by native code. Yoast becomes the Next.js Metadata API. Gravity Forms becomes React Hook Form with Supabase Edge Functions. WP Rocket becomes Vercel's built-in CDN and ISR. Wordfence becomes unnecessary -- there's no PHP to protect. You save $850-2,300 per year in plugin licenses and get better performance with no vulnerability surface left to exploit.
Yes, we rebuild e-commerce too. Product catalogs live in Supabase, payments run through Stripe, orders process through webhooks. Cart, checkout, inventory, and order notifications are all custom-built -- zero plugin dependencies. Stores with 100+ products, subscriptions, or complex custom logic fall into our $15-30K tier and take 3-6 weeks.
We don't offer WordPress cleaning because it doesn't actually fix the problem -- 60% of cleaned sites get hacked again within six months. If that's what you want, Sucuri and Wordfence offer cleaning services for $500-2,000. But if you're done with the cycle, and done paying $850-2,300 a year for security plugins that still can't stop breaches, we'll build you something that genuinely solves it.

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