WordPress is free to download, so why does one Rajshahi quote say 8,000 and the next says 80,000? Because almost nobody is selling you WordPress — they are selling you what gets bolted onto it, and that is where the whole price lives. I am RH Fardin, a senior solo developer who designs, builds and ships every site personally. WordPress website development in Rajshahi BD starts at 50,000 BDT, and on this page I show you exactly what decides whether your number is 8,000 or 80,000.
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The thing that trips up nearly every Rajshahi buyer is that WordPress is the one part of the project that costs nothing. The software is free. So when a coaching-centre owner near Kazla messages me having collected quotes of 8,000, 35,000 and 90,000 taka, the real question isn't "why is WordPress so expensive" — it's "what is each of these people actually charging me for, if the platform itself is free?" The answer is everything that sits on top of it: the design, the theme licence,
the handful of paid plugins the site genuinely needs, the hours spent making the dashboard simple enough for a non-technical owner to run, and the person who answers when something breaks. Strip all of that away and yes, you can ship a WordPress site for 8,000. Keep it and you are in a completely different bracket. The platform is free; the craft is not.
So here is my number, plainly, because in Rajshahi it is always the first line of the message anyway. WordPress website development starts at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 — and what moves you between them is page count, how much of the design is drawn from scratch versus configured from a premium theme, and whether you need a shop or just a catalogue.
A fully custom build, architected from the ground up rather than on WordPress, starts at 3,00,000 BDT. It is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and nothing gets coded until you have approved the full design in writing. That is the design-approval guarantee: the figure you agree to is the figure you pay, and it does not quietly grow a third invoice halfway through.
What decides where you land on that ladder is the build approach, and this is the part cheap quotes never explain. An 8,000-taka WordPress site is almost always a one-click demo import — a free theme's sample content with your logo dropped in, a stack of free plugins nobody documented, and a page-builder so heavy the site crawls on mobile data.
A 50,000 BDT site is the opposite discipline: a properly licensed theme or hand-built blocks, only the plugins the site actually uses, a layout designed for your business rather than borrowed from a demo, and a dashboard cleaned up so you can edit a price or a notice yourself without calling anyone. The gap between those two numbers isn't margin — it is the difference between a site that earns and a site that becomes your problem by month three.
Rajshahi shapes the WordPress build too, and that is fair to price in. This is a silk city and an education town, and the businesses that message me reflect it: admission and coaching institutes living off the university and RUET intake, silk and three-piece houses around Sopura that want to sell past the showroom, diagnostic centres and chambers near Laxmipur, mango and agro traders who go seasonal, and small service firms.
WordPress fits most of them well — the institute needs a fast courses-and-results site that survives an admission-week spike, the silk house needs WooCommerce product pages that load on a weak signal so a buyer in Dhaka does not bounce, the clinic needs a clean chamber-hours page editable by the front desk. The 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 ladder exists so you pay for the WordPress build your specific business needs, not a tier above it — and you know which one you are buying before any money moves.
Six things that live inside the number at every tier — the parts a cheap Rajshahi WordPress quote drops to hit 8,000, and the parts that decide whether the site is an asset or a liability.
A designed, licensed WordPress site — not a demo theme imported in an afternoon with your logo pasted on. The price covers a layout drawn for your business and a stack chosen on purpose, not whatever the free template shipped with.
Genuine paid theme and plugins registered in your name, with plain notes on what each one does. Not a nulled theme and fifteen undocumented plugins that turn into a white screen the first time WordPress pushes an update.
The admin is cleaned up so you can change a fee, a notice or a product yourself without calling a developer. Cheap WordPress builds leave the back end a maze on purpose — so you keep paying for edits you should be able to do.
I price the WordPress site your business needs, not a one-size figure. A 5-page coaching site and a Sopura silk store on WooCommerce are different jobs, and the tier you pay reflects which one you are actually getting.
Domain, hosting and admin in your name, handed over on launch day. The only recurring cost is hosting and licence renewals you pay the provider directly, at cost — never a renewal invoice I set or an account you can be locked out of.
The price includes reaching the person who built it. Message me when a plugin clashes during admission season and you are not explaining your setup to a stranger — same operator, same memory of your exact WordPress site.
If you want to understand why two WordPress quotes in this city are tens of thousands apart, stop comparing the headline taka and look at four levers, because every one of them swings the price. First, the build method: a free page-builder demo import is hours of work and ships heavy and slow; a properly licensed theme configured for your brand, or hand-built blocks with ACF for the parts that need to be custom, is real design time and is what a 50,000-plus figure pays for.
Second, the plugin stack — a serious site licenses only the few plugins it genuinely needs and you own them, whereas a cheap build either piles on free plugins that fight each other or installs nulled premium ones that quietly carry malware and can never safely update. Third, page count and content structure: five clean pages is one number, a twelve-page site with a blog and Bangla-and-English versions is another, and a WooCommerce catalogue is another again.
Fourth, who is attached to it after launch — a price with a senior developer answering in six months is simply not the same product as one that ends the day the file is handed over. Ask any Rajshahi quote to account for those four things and most of the scary spread collapses, because the cheap ones were never building the same site.
Now place yourself on the ladder so the WordPress number is concrete. The 50,000 BDT tier is built for a Rajshahi service business, clinic, coaching centre or trader that needs a credible four-to-six page WordPress site — home, about, services, gallery, contact — with a working enquiry form, click-to-WhatsApp and a Google Business Profile, on a licensed theme tuned to load fast on the Galaxy A-series phones your customers actually carry.
The 90,000 BDT tier is where you land at eight to twelve pages, a blog or notices section, proper Bangla-and-English support, or a small catalogue with WhatsApp-to-order — common for the institutes and silk houses that have outgrown a brochure site. The 1,50,000 BDT tier is a full WooCommerce store with bKash and Nagad checkout, inventory and courier handoff, for the Sopura or mango trader ready to sell well beyond Rajshahi.
Push past what WordPress does cleanly — a booking engine, a member dashboard, anything with real logins and logic — and I will tell you straight that you want a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT rather than a WordPress site fighting its own architecture. Across all of them it is 50% advance, 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and not a line is coded until you sign off the design.
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It starts at 50,000 BDT. The tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 depending on page count, how much of the design is custom versus configured from a premium theme, and whether you need a WooCommerce shop or just a catalogue. A fully custom build — not WordPress — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% to begin and 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You get a fixed figure before we start and it does not grow into a surprise invoice. Be careful with anything well under 50,000 in Rajshahi — that is almost always a free demo import with the ownership and renewals hidden.
Because the platform is the one part that is free. The 50,000 BDT is everything that sits on top of it: a layout designed for your business, a licensed theme and only the paid plugins you actually need, a dashboard cleaned up so you can edit it yourself, testing on real Bangladeshi phones, and a senior person attached to it after launch.
An 8,000-taka quote is usually a free demo theme imported in an afternoon with your logo dropped in — no real design, nulled or fighting plugins, and nobody around when WordPress pushes an update and the site breaks. The gap isn't margin; it is the difference between a site that earns and one I get asked to rescue by month three.
Scope and build effort. 50,000 is a clean four-to-six page WordPress site — think a coaching centre or clinic with services, a gallery and a working enquiry form. 90,000 is a richer eight-to-twelve page site: a blog or notices section, proper Bangla-and-English structure, or a small product catalogue with WhatsApp-to-order, which is where most Sopura silk houses and institutes land. 1,50,000 is a full WooCommerce store with bKash and Nagad checkout, inventory and courier handoff. I tell you which tier your brief actually falls into before we start, not after — so you pay for the site you need, not a tier above it.
It is fixed for the scope we agree on. You get one number up front, you approve the full design before I build, and that is what you pay — 50% advance, 50% on launch. The only thing that changes the figure is if you decide mid-project to add something genuinely outside the original brief, like a whole WooCommerce shop or a second language we never discussed. Even then I quote the addition separately and you decide before any work starts. That is the design-approval guarantee in writing — no quietly growing invoice, and you never pay for a build you did not approve.
The 50,000 BDT is the build — the design and development. Hosting, your domain, and the year-two renewals on paid theme and plugin licences are separate ongoing costs, but you buy them in your own name through your own bKash, Nagad or card, so you control them and there is no markup through me. I name exactly which licences your site uses and roughly what renewals run before you pay the advance. That is the opposite of the cheap-quote trap, where hosting and domain sit in the developer's account and the real cost is a yearly renewal he controls — and that you cannot leave.
You can edit it yourself — that is part of what the price buys. I clean up the dashboard and hand you plain notes so you can change a fee, post a notice, add a product or swap a photo without calling anyone, which matters for a coaching centre updating results or a silk house adding stock. Cheap WordPress builds often leave the back end deliberately tangled so you keep paying for small edits; I would rather you be able to run your own site. When you do hit something genuinely technical — a plugin clash during admission season, a feature outside the original scope — you reach me directly, the same person who built it, not a stranger inheriting a mess.
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