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Ali Fatehi

Freelance · Iran

Web development with WordPress, Next.js and a bias for speed

I build sites and make them fast: custom WordPress plugins, WooCommerce stores at scale, and Next.js applications. Every project ships with a number you can check, not a feeling.

What I work with daily

  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
  • PHP
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

Services

Six things I do well and do often.

  • Site speed optimisation

    Finding what is actually slow and getting LCP, INP and CLS into the green — reported as a before and after number, not a Lighthouse screenshot.

  • WordPress development

    A WordPress site on a bespoke theme with no page builder — light, maintainable, and structured for search from the first commit.

  • WooCommerce development

    Building, extending and rescuing WooCommerce stores — particularly once the catalogue passes a few thousand products and the site has slowed to a crawl.

  • Custom WordPress plugin development

    For when no off-the-shelf plugin does quite what you need — or one does, but brings ten times the surface area you asked for.

  • Next.js and React development

    Web applications in Next.js and TypeScript — from a fast content site to an internal dashboard, deployable on ordinary Node hosting.

  • Chrome extension development

    Browser extensions that automate repetitive work in web panels — for the cases where the target service has no API, or will not give you one.

Selected work

Every case study starts with a problem and ends with a number you can see before and after.

  • Healthcare2026

    A medical website for orthopaedic surgeon Dr Kamran Kordi

    The site needed to build trust, explain orthopaedic services for different age groups, and make booking or direct contact easy without overwhelming patients with generic medical copy.

    Service groups with their own path
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  • 3D printing and product manufacturing2026

    A 3D-printing store with transparent price estimation

    Customers wanted an early estimate of print cost and material before submitting a custom file. A catalogue alone was not enough for a business combining ready-made products with bespoke printing.

    Ordering paths: ready-made and custom print
    2
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  • Radiation technology and medical equipment2026

    A corporate and commerce website for IPAPDA

    IPAPDA needed one coherent platform for engineering services, specialist products, training courses and project work, without making visitors choose between corporate content and commerce.

    Value-chain sections
    5
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How I work

Three rules that keep projects finishing.

  1. 1

    Measure first

    Before touching code I record the current state: LCP, INP, CLS, transfer size, database queries. Without a baseline, "it got faster" is a claim, not a result.

  2. 2

    Smallest change, largest effect

    A full rewrite is usually the most expensive and least effective option. I find the actual bottleneck first — it is often a handful of bad queries, a 400 KB slider and one plugin loading on every page.

  3. 3

    Handover with documentation

    Code without explanation is technical debt. Every project ships with a short document: what changed, why, and where to look when you want to touch it later.

Recent writing

Things I learn on the job that are worth writing down.

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