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WordPress Development Pricing

What WordPress development costs with Digital Royalty -- project pricing, retainer options, and what affects the final figure.

How Pricing Works

WordPress development is priced on a project basis, scoped from your specific requirements. We do not have fixed-price packages because every WordPress project is different — a brochure site, a WooCommerce store, a content platform, and a membership site all have different scopes and different costs.

Every project gets a detailed estimate with line-item breakdowns before work begins. You know exactly what you are paying for, what is included, and what is out of scope.

What Is Included

A typical WordPress development engagement includes:

  • Custom theme development — built to your design, not a modified template
  • Responsive design — fully functional across desktop, tablet, and mobile
  • Content management setup — structured content types and editing interfaces
  • SEO foundations — semantic HTML, meta controls, schema markup, sitemap generation
  • Performance optimisation — caching, image optimisation, and asset management
  • Security hardening — best-practice configuration, update procedures, and monitoring
  • Staging environment — separate testing environment before go-live
  • Launch support — deployment, DNS configuration, and post-launch monitoring
  • Client Dashboard access — project tracking, reporting, and communication through the Client Dashboard

What Affects the Price

  • Scope and complexity — more pages, more custom functionality, and more integrations increase the project size
  • Custom functionality — bespoke plugins, custom post types, API integrations, and WooCommerce customisation add development time
  • Design requirements — custom design from scratch costs more than working from an existing brand guide
  • Content volume — large sites with dozens of pages take more time to build and populate
  • Integration requirements — connecting to CRMs, payment gateways, email platforms, or other third-party services
  • Timeline — accelerated timelines may require additional resources

What Is Not Included

  • Content creation — writing page copy, sourcing images, and creating videos is your responsibility unless separately scoped
  • Ongoing hosting — hosting is arranged and managed but billed separately
  • Third-party plugin licences — premium plugins required for specific functionality are billed at cost
  • Ongoing maintenance — post-launch maintenance and support is available through a support retainer

Next Steps

Send us a brief describing what you need, and we will come back with an estimate. If you do not have a brief, we can help you structure one during an initial consultation. Get in touch to start the conversation.

Get a WordPress Estimate

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