How Much Will it Cost You to Develop a WordPress Website?

WordPress started with the concept of a simple blogging platform, but with time its ambit has expanded to a full-blown CMS. Some highly profiting bloggers state WordPress as their online home.

WordPress comprises more than 35% of the world's websites, and it makes sense to build a WordPress website if you aim to create a website or start your blogging career with high rates of success. 

One common question that might pop into your head is: what will be the total cost of developing a WordPress website? Even though the core of WordPress software is free, it costs some amount depending on your budget and goals.

Website Development Company Staines is one of the leading solution providers for creating a website and getting a huge amount of organic traffic in a short duration of time. In this article, we’ll provide a breakdown of the entire estimated cost to build a WordPress website. It will also guide you through some highly effective advice to minimise the cost of building a website and avoid overspending.

The Minimum and Realistic Cost

To create a simple and basic WordPress site that contains all free extensions, decent hosting, and your domain name, you are expected to pay around $50-60 per year. This is the bare minimum cost that everybody who is aspiring to create a WordPress will be required to pay. It might not appear super realistic for most starters, but it’s achievable.

Coming to a realistic scenario, the budget would range from $60-200 depending on the premium theme and plugins you prefer. So, you are expected to pay nearly $200-300 for a year in order to run your WordPress site. The limit can range even higher if you wish to add some more advanced features or an e-commerce store.

Let’s go through the breakdown of these costs to estimate how we arrived at these figures.

Breakdown of Costs

Basically, there are two types of costs involved while building a WordPress website.

1. Required Costs: The free status of WordPress websites won’t get you anywhere, you need to spend a little bit in order to get started. Required costs are the bare minimum cost to make your website come into existence and these costs can’t be avoided in any case.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Optional-but-most probable costs: Optional costs can be avoided if you're merely willing to start a website but not having any aspiration to take that website to great heights. One is most likely to spend a little bit so that the website appears appealing and promising.

Required Costs

The bare minimum expenditure that’s necessarily required for a WordPress website includes two costs:

1. Hosting: Buying a hosting plan, reserves some portion of internet space for your website to fit in. Hosting is pretty much an unavoidable cost, as no hosting, no website. It powers the WordPress software and provides the accessibility of your website to everyone on the internet. At the lower end, it would cost you under $50 per year, but as your site grows or there's a need to have more premium hosting services. To pacify the increasing needs, one can shift to managed WordPress hosting, it may reach $35 per month.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Domain name: Domain name is the permanent address for your website on the internet. The cost of a domain depends on two factors, firstly the place of registering your domain name, and secondly, the domain extension you use. “.com” is the most common domain extension that costs typically from $10 to $12 per year. If you are short of budget, there are some cheaper domain extensions, like .info. To turn a “mediocre website” into the “website of your desired level”, you're likely to opt for premium WordPress extensions, where the costs may be a bit higher and range up to $70+ per year.

Optional Costs

Those starting a WordPress website should have a bigger picture and the opportunity to flourish by choosing some optional but likely features. This would provide a wholesome dimension to your website. Premium WordPress extensions come in two forms:

1. Themes: Themes are necessary to control the design structure of your WordPress site. Premium WordPress themes at the standard price would amount to approx $60. Some theme developers have moved to more expensive themes that range from $90 to $200+.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Plugins: If you want to add new features to your WordPress site, then plugins are necessary. This is a variable cost, as there’s no limit to the number of plugins you can use. A WordPress is usually required to have a minimum of one WordPress theme, but you can opt for 20+ premium WordPress plugins as per your specifications. On average, the budget ranges from $100-200 per year.

Other Costs: In addition to above mentioned optional costs, some other add-ons that would be required to reach the optimum quality level of WordPress site are marketing and promotion, design and themes, development cost, security, and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). All such things cumulatively will range from $3000-20,000 / Year.

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