This post is a basic for which everyone asks me, how much does it cost to set up a Blog in WordPress, it is difficult to assess a standard budget.
The prices can be ridiculous if you decide to do it with free resources , an option that I recommend for tests and people who are more or less as good as reading them.
There are mixed alternatives in which if you do it for yourself they only come out much cheaper than if they were in charge of any company. You have to keep in mind that when you switch to WordPress.org you reach another dimension, especially if you come from Blogger where everything is free and Google does a lot of things for you that you have to take care of now.
These are the basic expenses that you will have when setting up your blog with WordPress:
- Domain
- hosting
Then optional such as:
- premium template
- Premium version of some plugin
- genesis framework
And one more extra expense that can be:
- Designers for the corporate image
- Blog installation and start-up
- Or if you are already very pro, an agency to help you with your marketing
Basic expenses the domain of your blog
The basic expenses are the domain that can cost from 0.35 as in the offers to 14.95 that you can pay from the second year VAT included in any company.
Hosting expenses hosting for WordPress
Now we come to the second topic, which is hosting, as I say, the little house where your blog lives. This price is much more elastic, think that WordPress consumes a lot of resources, as I explained in types of hosting for your blog without messing it up too much. Depending on our expectations, we cannot allow hosting that is too cheap, the cheapest is usually around €2.50 per month, this type of hosting tends to have many limitations, even sometimes you cannot install all the plugins that you would like and it is frequent that when if you have a problem, they suggest you change companies. It may be that at the moment that you increase the visits you begin to have problems in the blog, the resources are limited in the low plans and I talk about it in this post about the invisible enemies of your blog. It is normal that a WordPress installation in good condition begins to assess installing a premium template, quite a few plugins, that you have decent visitor traffic and your page can withstand it, we go to hosting of around five euros per month, there are somewhat more expensive hosting, they are already designed for blogs and more complex websites, if you are going to install their domains a lot, you will probably have to go for €100 or €120 after hosting. This is how you pay everything based on what you need, the resources you are going to consume, hosting companies sometimes offer limited resources, but since we talked in a post about factors that affect your ass, you don’t realize you will see that there is one that is related to hosting and speed.
Invest in a good premium template
Another of the expenses that can come up when creating your website is a premium template , the investment is really worth it, although there is a free template, the difference is usually abysmal but it is not mandatory but it is important. Free WordPress themes contain limitations such as not being able to remove the Footer attribution , not being able to edit the files as you would like, few customization possibilities and apart from that they are usually much less complex, although the problem that most worries me about the templates is free ones is that it doesn’t update as often as a paid one.
You may want to work with a framework
You may want to take a leap further and decide to work with the Studio Press Genesis Framework, which is a set of styles and good practices to make your blog work better, the bad thing is that it is not free and the Framework costs $59.95 and the You can find templates from $100, it is a non-annual payment that is used for the entire life of the blog.
Annually you would have to pay the domain and hosting. The basic genesis theme is not enough, (it is very bland and you will probably have to buy a template). So setting up your blog would cost about €250 more or less, then you would pay around €100 every year.
We are already seeing what it costs us to install a blog in WordPress
Well, here you have more or less been able to get an idea of what your budget would be and what you may need normally does not usually exceed €100 a year, it changes people very pro, which is going to be close to €250 a year between hosting and templates.
You need a professional who is in charge of setting up your WordPress blog
Another point that we cannot forget when making a budget is to assess whether we are going to install everything ourselves and take care of the design of our blog or we are going to entrust it to a third person, here I am not going to deceive you a little lost because, as my friend Marisol would say, prices are like smacks: there are some that don’t hurt and others that turn your head.
Perhaps you have seen them cheaper, but it is very difficult to calculate that someone who pays what they have to pay in the treasury and the self-employed can charge you less than €350 for settling in and leave you a blog up and running. There are companies that offer packages with a fixed price with their options defined in which changes cannot be made and they include, let’s say, the beginning, these options can be around 350-700 euros and include the template. There are other companies that make exclusive and custom designs in which you can correct them and have them pay attention to you, such as: “that pink is very pink, I don’t like that letter now, or that can’t be smaller”, they accept modifications, they take care of everything that appears on the blog type logos and even help you with your brand strategy, this type of price is higher and it is very difficult to measure what they are going to charge because it depends on the fame, career and professionalism of the price that they can ask you for , for example, would be between €600 and €1,500. Depending on the amount of work they have to invest, this can go up, the most logical and the least usurious to pay the developer by the hour when you need it.
There is the possibility of doing the easy part and paying for the hours of development, design or optimization of parts that we prefer not to touch, this is a very smart option in which you can choose professionals who are suitable for each point you need.
There may be other expenses on the horizon when it comes to getting your blog up and running.
It should also be noted that when you have a blog you will probably need tools to help you manage social networks, for example Hootsuite, others to automate content. Maybe you need some paid version in some plugin. You may need to invest in images or perhaps improve your photography equipment.
And in the end, how much did it cost me to set up a blog with WordPress?
These are the decisions that you have to make and that you have to assess when you decide to migrate from Blogger to WordPress, also when you are going to set up a blog from scratch and you need to have clear accounts, since in many cases it is very important.
The conclusion is that depending on your budget, unfortunately the operation of your blog is conditioned, this is a conclusion that I reached in the post on how to choose hosting since it is a very important decision.
You can see that I have spent enough of offering free domains and hosting, it is not something that I like, I advise them to do tests or for projects that you are going to develop to teach, but I do not advise them at all for a project in which have high expectations of monetization or entrepreneurship.
