WordPress Website Prices in South Africa

Category
  • Website Design
Posted by
Tags
Posted on
January 29, 2025

WordPress is a great platform for website building in the market today, powering over 43% of all websites you see on the internet. The rest of the 57%  are using a mix of other platforms like Wix, Shopify, Joomla, Drupal, Squarespace, and custom-built websites. But Honestly speaking, everyone wants to “secretly” move to WordPress platform. Why? Because of its overwhelming flexibility

WordPress Website Prices in South Africa
WordPress Website Prices in South Africa

Many South Africans would prefer WordPress because of its unlimited functionalities. And of course, the lower price that is associated with it. WordPress Websites will not milk you dry in terms of prices. For example, at Mansa Digital, we have built 3 web pages using WordPress for R1300 once-off payment. On this page, we will explore the prices associated with creating and owning a WordPress website in South Africa.

WordPress Website Design Prices in South Africa – Cost Breakdown

The prices associated with creating and owning a WordPress website in South Africa, depend on things like domain registration, hosting, setup, and design complexity. Let’s take a look at these in more detail below:

Step 1 -Get Your Domain Registered

Domain Registration for your WordPress website – first of all, you will need a website domain for your. A .co.za domain costs around R90 – R100 per year, while a .com domain can range from R150 – R200 per year, in South Africa.

Step 2 – Host Your WordPress Website

Once your domain is registered, you need to find hosting servers for it. If you are trying to create a WordPress website by your self, there are many website hosting companies in South Africa (including Mansa Digital Agency), which are:

So, in terms of WordPress hosting prices in South Africa, you are looking at R50 – R150 per month, while premium hosting for high-traffic WordPress websites costs around R500+ per month.

Step 3 – WordPress Installation on the Hosting Servers

Many hosting providers provide a quick and straightforward WordPress installation, through one click of a button. WordPress website is installed on a panel platform located on the hosting server. Normally there won’t be any cost associated with the installation process. 5 years ago, this would be the most challenging step you would have to go through.

Step 4 – WordPress Website Design Process

Now, this step will be the ultimate decision on whether to do it yourself or get a website designer. Many people only get stuck here. This is the crux of things. This is where art is shown. Therefore, it would make sense to get a website designer to design your website professionally. However, if you want to do it yourself, take it as a learning process. There are thousands of instructions on how to design your WordPress website following a step-by-step process. Whether you are doing it yourself, or you hire a professional, you wont manage to escape any costs of designing your website. The costs that you are looking at here are:

Step 5 – WordPress Maintenance

Now, what I like about WordPress, is that front-end website maintenance can be easy for most people. This is because of WordPress; functionality to add users and roles on the website. Anybody with access can simply edit the text and images on the WordPress website. However, if you require professional website maintenance, that will always keep the website structure intact while continuing to make some required website design upgrades on the go, you will be looking at the costs below:

Maintenance & Updates – WordPress monthly maintenance plans can range from R500 – R3,000, which includes, content uploading, backups, security, and updates.

So, in a nutshell, those are the prices you can expect to pay for your new WordPress website in South Africa

 

//
I'm here to answer all your questions today.
👋 Hi, how can I help?