Someone told you WordPress is free, then someone else quoted 1,80,000 to build on it — and now you don't know which number to trust. Here is the straight one: WordPress website development in Sylhet starts at 50,000 BDT, fixed tiers, built end to end by me. WordPress the software costs nothing; what you pay for is the design, the licences and the person who makes it work. 50% advance, 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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This is the question almost every Sylhet owner is really asking, even when they word it differently: "WordPress to free, tahole eto taka keno?" It's a fair question, and most developers dodge it. So here it is straight. WordPress the software is genuinely free — anyone can install it in twenty minutes. But a downloaded WordPress is an empty shell: no design, no structure, no working forms, a default theme that looks like every abandoned blog from 2014. The 50,000 BDT isn't for WordPress. It's for the part WordPress doesn't give you — a design drawn for your business, a licensed theme and the few paid plugins your site actually needs, the dashboard set up so your office can run it, and a person who picks up when it breaks. The software is the free brick. You're paying for the house someone builds with it.
Once you see that, the wild price swings in Sylhet start to make sense. Someone offers a "WordPress website" for 6,000 taka — that's a nulled theme installed in an afternoon, no design, a contact form pointed at an inbox nobody opens. Someone else quotes 1,80,000 for what sounds like the same words, and a Dhaka agency floats more once they hear there's remittance money behind your shop. They all say "WordPress," and almost none of them are pricing the same work. My number sits where the work is honest: WordPress website development in Sylhet starts at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 depending on page count, how much custom design versus a configured layout, and whether you need a shop or a booking flow. A genuinely custom build — software from a blank file, not WordPress — starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
Sylhet adds a wrinkle to the WordPress price that other cities don't, and it's worth naming. The whole reason people choose WordPress here is that they were promised they could edit it themselves — and in this city the person who owns the business is usually flat out at a front desk in Zindabazar or Bandar Bazar, while the person who actually paid is a brother or son in London five time zones away. So the WordPress build has to be genuinely runnable by ordinary office staff, in Bangla, and it has to not embarrass the relative abroad who opens it next to British sites. A 6,000 taka WordPress — a nulled theme buried under thirty plugins — fails both of those at once. Part of what the real price buys is a WordPress build that survives that double test, which a cheap install never does.
When you hire me, the person quoting the WordPress price is the same person who designs the homepage and writes the PHP. No salesman lowballing to win you and then a junior quietly assembling your site from a bought template; no Gulshan office overhead stacked onto your figure. That's the real reason a wordpress website development price Sylhet this way undercuts a capital-city agency for the same quality — you're paying one senior operator with around five years on WordPress, not a building full of people each taking a cut. Payment is 50% to begin and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you approve the full design before I write a line of code, so the figure you agree to is the figure you pay. Read on for exactly what separates the 50,000 tier from the 90,000 and 1,50,000 ones.
Six things that live inside the number at every tier — the parts a 6,000 taka "WordPress install" drops to hit a smaller figure, and the parts that decide whether the site is yours to run or a trap you're scared to touch.
WordPress the software is free; the price is the design, the setup and the work it doesn't include. You're never paying me for a thing you could download — you're paying for the build around it that actually makes it a business website.
A genuine paid theme on a clean child setup and a short stack of plugins I can name and justify — in your account, not a nulled download that ships malware and dies on the next auto-update. The licences are part of why a real price isn't 6,000 taka.
The dashboard built so your front desk can change a fare, post a notice or update a rate themselves, in Bangla, with a handover video. WordPress is meant to be self-editable; the price covers making yours actually so, not a builder maze nobody dares touch.
One figure before we start, and that's what you pay — 50% advance, 50% on launch. No mid-project "this needs a premium plugin" surprise, no third invoice appearing the week before launch because the quote was never really fixed.
Built lean enough that the probashi son or brother funding it — often IT-literate, on a fast connection — opens it and sees a real company, not a seven-second crawl. The cheap WordPress loses you the exact person with the money and the final say.
Domain in your name, hosting on your account, all admin logins handed over on launch. Walk away tomorrow and you keep the whole WordPress build — the test most cheap Sylhet "WordPress" jobs quietly fail by keeping it on their own hosting.
The most honest thing I can do on a price page is show you what your taka is buying, because the word "WordPress" hides it. When someone in Sylhet offers 6,000 taka and I'm at 50,000, the gap isn't margin — it's the parts they quietly left out. Start with the licence: is the theme a genuine paid copy in your name, or a nulled file from a Telegram group that breaks on the first update and often carries malware? Then the plugins — a real site runs a short, named stack; a cheap one drags thirty undocumented plugins that fight each other until the site goes white in month three. Then the design — drawn for your business, or a demo with your logo dropped on it? Then the dashboard — set up and explained so your office can run it, or a maze you're locked out of the day the developer goes quiet? And then the ownership — is it on your hosting and your logins, or rented from someone who can switch it off over a bounced renewal? A 6,000 taka WordPress is "free software plus an afternoon." The 50,000 is everything that turns free software into a site that earns. That's not me running down other developers; plenty of the white-screen WordPress rescues I'm asked to do as a wordpress website development Sylhet BD operator started as exactly that quote.
The other half of pricing WordPress honestly is matching the tier to the business, and Sylhet's remittance economy makes that concrete. A travel or ticketing agency, a small clinic, a boutique — anyone who needs a credible 5-to-7-page WordPress site with a service list and an enquiry form landing in their inbox — sits comfortably at the 50,000 BDT tier: a clean, fast, self-editable build with no padding. A growing firm that wants a richer 8-to-12-page site with a blog, custom Gutenberg blocks, stronger SEO and proper lead capture lands around 90,000. A money-transfer house, a property developer selling flats to the diaspora, or a hajj-and-umrah operator who needs a content-deep bilingual Bangla-English site, a small WooCommerce shop, or a tour-and-umrah booking flow with bKash and Nagad wired in fits the 1,50,000 tier. Push past what WordPress does well — a full booking engine, multi-vendor, a member portal, real integrations — and I'll tell you straight you want a custom build from 3,00,000 rather than a WordPress site fighting its own architecture. The point of the tiers is that you pay for the site you need, and you know which one before any money moves. Send me your current link and one line on who you sell to, and within a day I'll tell you honestly which tier fits — or whether a better template is all you need.
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Straight answers on the WordPress price, the tiers, and the "but isn't WordPress free" questions Sylhet owners actually open the WhatsApp chat with.
It starts at 50,000 BDT. The tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 depending on page count, how much custom design versus a configured layout, and whether you need a shop or a booking flow. A genuinely custom build — software from scratch, 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, you approve the design before any code, and it doesn't grow into a surprise invoice later.
Because you're not paying for WordPress. The software is free and takes twenty minutes to install — but that gives you an empty shell with a default theme and no design, structure or working forms. The 50,000 BDT is the part WordPress doesn't include: a design drawn for your business, a licensed theme and the paid plugins the site genuinely needs, the dashboard set up so your office can actually run it, and one senior person who answers when something breaks. The free brick isn't the house. You're paying for what someone builds with it.
Because they're not the same product. A 6,000 taka WordPress is usually a nulled theme installed in an afternoon, no real design, thirty undocumented plugins, a form going to a dead inbox, and the whole thing on the developer's own hosting so you don't even own it. My 50,000 BDT is a licensed, custom-designed, lean WordPress build you own and can edit, handed over with every login, built and shipped by one senior person you can reach afterward. Plenty of the broken WordPress sites I'm asked to rescue in Sylhet started as that 6,000 taka quote — so the gap usually closes once you count the redo.
Scope. 50,000 is a clean 5-to-7-page WordPress site — think a travel agency, clinic or boutique with a service list and an enquiry form that actually lands. 90,000 is a richer 8-to-12-page site with a blog, custom Gutenberg blocks, stronger SEO and proper lead capture. 1,50,000 covers content-deep or bilingual Bangla-English sites: a small WooCommerce shop, a tour-and-umrah booking flow with bKash and Nagad, or a property listing structure for the diaspora. I tell you which tier your brief actually falls into before we start, not after the work is done.
The build price is the design and development. Hosting, your domain, and the year-two renewal of 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's no markup through me. I tell you exactly which licences the site uses and roughly what year-two renewals run before you pay the advance, so nothing about the real cost is hidden. This is also why a nulled-theme "WordPress" looks cheaper — it skips the licences you'd actually own.
Yes to both, and they matter here. The whole point of WordPress is self-editing, so I build the dashboard calm and obvious — not a builder maze — and record a Bangla handover video walking your assistant through the things you'll actually do: changing a fare, posting a notice, updating a rate, swapping the homepage banner for the next Hajj season. The design-approval guarantee means we refine the design within scope until you're happy to sign off, built into the price, not billed per round. And yes, you get a proper itemised invoice for your books or for the family member abroad funding it — useful when the spend has to read as the considered business cost it is.
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