This post is a basic one 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 read them more or less as well.
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 bear 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 still more extra expenses that can be:
- Designers for the corporate image
- Blog installation and start-up
- Or if you are already very pro, an agency that helps 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.
The choice of the domain is a very important decision
There are TLDs or extensions such as marketing or madrid that can be very expensive, just like the domain in other countries.
There are free domains too
There are ridiculous prices that companies normally do with medium hair, although to begin with it is not a bad idea, anyway, as you can have the domain in one company and the hosting in another, a good way to save at least the first year.
The domains for your blog we are going to talk from the first year to be realistic from 4.95 to 12.95 euros depending on the extension.es or.com
Hosting costs hosting for wordpress
Now we come with the second topic is hosting as I say the little house where your blog lives
This price is much more elastic, think that WordPress consumes many resources as explained in types of hosting for your blog without messing it up a lot.
Depending on our expectations we cannot allow too cheap hosting, the cheapest is usually around € 2.50 per month, this type of hosting usually has many limitations, sometimes you cannot even install all the plugins you want and it is common when have a problem suggest you change company.
Maybe the moment you increase visits you start to have problems on the blog, resources are limited in low plans and I talk about it in this post about the invisible enemies of your blog.
Normal is that a WordPress installation in conditions you begin to value installing a premium template, enough plugins, that you have a decent traffic of visits and your page can hold it, we are going to hostings about five euros a month, there is somewhat more expensive hosting, but these They are already designed for more complex blogs and websites, if you are going to install your domains a lot, you will probably have to go to € 100 or € 120 after hosting.
This is how you pay for everything because of what you need the resources that you are going to consume, hosting companies sometimes offer limited resources, but as we talked in a post about factors that affect your ass, you don’t realize, you will see that there is one which is related to hosting and speed.
Normal hosting ranges from € 30 a year to € 100 a year
Expenses that are secondary:
Invest in a good premium template
Another expense that can be incurred 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 important.
Free wordpress themes contain limitations of the type not being able to remove the attribution of the Footer, not being able to edit the files as you would like, few customization possibilities and apart they tend to be much less complex, although the problem that worries me the most about the templates free is that it is not updated with the frequency weight updates a paid one.
The price of WordPress templates usually ranges from 40 to 70 euros.
You may want to work with a framework
You may want to take a leap further and decide to work with the Genesis Framework of StudioPress, 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 Templates can be found from $ 100, it is a payment that is not annual, it serves you for the entire life of the blog.
Annually you would have to pay for the domain and hosting.
The basic theme of genesis is not enough, (it is very bland and you will surely have to buy a template).
So setting up your blog would cost around € 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. hosting and templates.
You need a professional to be 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 do that we are going to install everything 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 bit 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.
On the horizon there may be other expenses when starting your blog
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 the content.
Maybe you need a paid version of a plugin.
You may need to invest in images or perhaps upgrade your photography equipment.
And in the end, how much has 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 start a blog from scratch and you need to have clear accounts, since in many cases it is very important.
The conclusion is that according to 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 domains and free 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 overturned expectations of monetization or entrepreneurship.
Prices can range from € 30 a year and the cheapest option would be the most reasonable notion according to the domain by putting un.es you could give € 75 a year a professional option and very oriented to multiplication and cleaning would be by installing Facebook Genesis. It would go about € 300 without counting that we need personalization service.
