WordPress website development

If you’re working with a high quality WordPress developer agency, the creation of a website will take between 3 and 5 months, depending on its complexity.

Developing a high quality but simple WordPress website can take between 150-200 hours, whilst a more advanced website can easily involve upwards of 300-500 hours of development time. Ultimately the number of hours it takes to develop the website will define the final price.

WordPress website development consists of 4 major steps:

WordPress has already many predeveloped solutions, which make it very easy and effective to develop a new website. These predeveloped plugins cover the most used website functions.
These ready made solutions make it possible to have short development time. At the same time it is absolutely possible to design completely unique websites with astonishing webdesign and modern animations.

WordPress websites are future proof as new functions can be added easily later on, an open source community works on continuous updates, maintenance is easy and cost-effective.

WordPress has one of the most intuitive and easy to use content management system in the world. The admin area of WP can be highly customized to suit your needs and also the design can be adjusted based on how you prefer the most. The content editor section enables the admins to easily edit any type of existing content on the website or to add any kind new materials, to create new pages, blog articles etc. The editor is a WYSIWYG editor, which stands for What You See Is What You Get. As you update the text, you can see exactly what it will look like on your website once it gets published. The save draft and preview functions are also very handy when creating a new page or post. It is also possible to schedule a post if you would like to publish at later date. The menu items and navigation can be set up or modified extremely easily if you would like to update the structure of your website. WP also offers a convenient admin user management, users can be added with one click and also their access rights can set within seconds. This enables also a larger team to work on the same website.

WordPress is a good choice in many cases, however there are some cases when picking another CMS might be more effective:

• It is not designed to handle large websites like 30-50+ pages, 200+ articles – In this case it might get slow and unstable.
• Deep integration of 3rd party systems (CRM system, invoicing system, booking system etc)
• Functions with lot of user interactivity eg: complex map solutions, application type of functions with special logic, where quick reaction time is needed from the website
• Complex user management: handling multiple layer of users, with special rights and with special content restrictions
• Generally, for larger and more complex websites WP is not the best choice.

In these cases we propose our Clients to have a custom or Drupal based development.

One of the advantages of a WordPress website is that these websites are easy and cost-effective to maintain. As WordPress is an open source CMS it is continuously developed and updated by a large community of website developers. WP offers regular automatic updates to the core CMS functions. This also grants that any security issues, which have been discovered by the community are fixed within a very short period of time. At a WordPress development it is very important to pick plugins, which have a proven history of updates, with this we can make sure that these plugins are also regularly updated and that these are compatible with each other and with the core WordPress. Based on this at WP websites it is sufficient to update all the plugins every quarter. Of course after these quarterly updates a detailed testing has to be done to make sure there no hidden bugs.