WordPress website development cost bd — the full breakdown, not a one-line WhatsApp number.
I'm RH Fardin, and I build the whole WordPress site myself — theme, plugins, speed, the lot. "WordPress" hides a huge cost range behind one word, so this page shows you exactly what sits inside the number: build fee versus running cost, page-builder versus custom theme, and where it all starts at ৳50,000.
From ৳50,000 • Tiers ৳50,000 / ৳90,000 / ৳1,50,000 • Fully custom from ৳3,00,000 • 50% advance, 50% on launch • Design-approval guarantee • One senior developer, ~5 years on WordPress
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People hear "WordPress is free" and assume the website should be nearly free too. The software is free. What you pay for is the work: choosing the right theme, building the layout, wiring up the plugins, making it load fast on a cheap Android over 4G, and handing you something you can actually edit without breaking it. That gap between "WordPress is free" and "a built WordPress site costs real money" is exactly why the quotes you get in BD are all over the place.
The ৳8,000 WordPress quote is real, but you should know what it is: a free theme installed in an afternoon, demo content swapped for yours, and someone who stops replying after the advance. The ৳2 lakh quote can be a genuinely custom-built site — or the same free theme with an agency markup stacked on top. The word "WordPress" tells you almost nothing about the cost on its own, which is why I break the number down instead of just naming it.
I'm RH Fardin, and for about five years I've built WordPress sites for businesses across Bangladesh — every part by hand. There's no account manager taking a cut and no junior learning on your project while you're billed for senior work. So the WordPress website development cost I quote is the cost of me designing it, building it, optimising it, and shipping it. That's why I can publish my floor in the open: ৳50,000, and on the first call I'll tell you straight whether your project fits there or needs a higher tier.
The tiers are simple. ৳50,000 buys a clean, fast, mobile-first WordPress business site — a handful of well-built pages, contact forms, WhatsApp click-to-chat, and proper on-page SEO. ৳90,000 adds more pages, custom sections, a blog or service structure, and tighter design. ৳1,50,000 is for a serious site with deeper custom layouts, integrations, and content architecture. If your needs outgrow templated WordPress entirely, fully custom work starts from ৳3,00,000. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, with a design-approval guarantee so you sign off on the look before you pay the balance.
Six things decide where your WordPress cost lands. Once you can see them, you can tell a fair quote from a padded one — and a real build from a ৳8,000 template.
A free theme, a one-time premium theme, or a fully custom theme are three very different price points. The build approach is the first big fork in any WordPress quote, and I'll tell you which one your project actually needs.
Five pages and twenty-five pages are not the same job. Each unique layout is design plus build time, so the number of distinct pages is the single biggest lever on your WordPress cost.
Contact forms and WhatsApp are baked in. Bookings, member logins, Bangla–English switching, or bKash and Nagad checkout via WooCommerce add plugins to configure, license and test — real work that moves the number.
A WordPress site that loads in two seconds on a mid-range phone is built that way deliberately: optimised images, a lean plugin set, clean settings. It's inside my tiers, never sold back to you as an upsell.
Text, photos and logo ready means the build moves fast and stays cheaper. If I have to structure your content or chase you for assets, that's real time, and an honest quote reflects it.
A lean plugin stack and sensible setup cost a little more to do right, but they mean the site doesn't break on every WordPress update — so you're not paying someone to patch it every few months.
Most of the difference between a ৳50,000 WordPress site and a ৳1,50,000 one comes down to one choice: how the design gets built. The cheaper path is a premium theme with a page builder like Elementor — fast to set up, fully editable by you afterward, and perfect for a business that needs to look credible and load properly without a bespoke design. The pricier path is a custom-coded theme, where the layout is built to your exact design rather than fitted into a template.
It costs more because it's more design and development hours, but it's lighter, faster, and not tied to a page builder you'd have to keep licensing. Neither is "better" in the abstract — the right one depends on what you're building, and I'll tell you honestly which gets you the most for your budget instead of pushing you to the option that pays me more.
Here's the trap specific to WordPress that nobody quotes you for: the cheapest builds are the ones that cost the most to keep alive. A ৳8,000 site is usually a free theme crammed with eight or ten random plugins, half of them abandoned, that conflict the moment WordPress pushes an update — so the site breaks, and you're paying someone every couple of months to un-break it. I build the opposite way.
The one-time WordPress development cost I quote includes a lean, deliberate plugin stack and a setup that survives updates, and I keep your yearly running costs — hosting, domain, any premium licences — listed separately and as low as honestly possible. The number you agree with me is the cost to own a working WordPress site, not to rent a recurring problem.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
An online store built to sell and scale.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Straight answers to what people in Bangladesh actually ask before budgeting for a WordPress build.
It starts at ৳50,000 for a clean, fast, mobile-first WordPress business site. The tiers are ৳90,000 for a larger site with custom sections and ৳1,50,000 for a more advanced build; fully custom work beyond templated WordPress starts from ৳3,00,000. After one short call about your pages, theme approach and features, you get one fixed BDT number — not a vague range.
The WordPress software is free; the work is not. You're paying for theme setup, layout, plugin configuration, speed optimisation, mobile testing and SEO — done by hand so it actually performs. ৳50,000 is my floor because below it nobody is doing real development, just dropping your logo into a free demo and disappearing after the advance.
A premium theme with a page builder like Elementor keeps you near the ৳50,000 floor and stays editable by you. A fully custom-coded theme costs more — usually the ৳1,50,000 tier or higher — because it's built to your exact design rather than fitted into a template. I'll tell you which one your project genuinely needs instead of upselling you the expensive route by default.
No, and any honest quote says so. Hosting and a domain are small yearly costs you own directly, and some premium plugins or themes are annual licences. I list those running costs separately from the one-time build fee, so you know your real first-year total — and I keep the licence list as short as honestly possible.
Yes. For an online store I set up bKash and Nagad checkout on WordPress, usually through WooCommerce. It adds plugin setup, gateway configuration and testing, so it moves you up a tier — but I quote it clearly before you decide. Most Bangladeshi buyers expect mobile payment, so for a store it's worth the added cost.
Yes. The price tracks the work, not your location. The whole project runs over WhatsApp, calls and screen-shares, so a business in Chattogram, Rajshahi or a smaller town pays the same fixed BDT price as one in Dhaka — same build, same quality, same ৳50,000 floor.
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