Every Price, Published
Most agencies make you book a call to find out what anything costs. Here's our full price list instead: design, maintenance, hourly work, the lot. Reviewed quarterly so it never goes stale.
How Much a WordPress Website Costs in the UK
These are the real brackets our quotes land in. Every project gets a fixed written quote, so the number you sign is the number you pay.
Starter Website
£1,500 - £3,000
Up to 5 bespoke pages, mobile-first design, contact form, SEO architecture. For small businesses, freelancers, and startups.
Business Website
£3,000 - £5,500
5-15 pages with forms, blog, and advanced layouts. The most common bracket for businesses that need the site to generate leads.
Custom / Enterprise
£5,500 - £8,000+
15+ pages, custom functionality, complex integrations, and bespoke plugin work. Quoted in detail after scoping.
WooCommerce Store
£3,000 - £15,000
Custom storefront, payment gateways, product setup, shipping rules. Price scales with catalogue size and integration complexity. WooCommerce service details.
Static Website (PHP/HTML/CSS/JS)
Quoted per project
For sites that rarely or never change. Built with AI assistance for faster delivery, with no CMS to update or patch. Often the cheapest sensible option, and we'll say so when it is.
WordPress Maintenance Cost and Hourly Rates
UK maintenance plans run anywhere from £30 to over £500 a month, and agency hourly rates from £70 to £150. Here's where we sit, and what the conditions are.
Maintenance Plans
£30 / £69 / £149 per month
Updates, monitoring, backups, edit time, and response SLAs from 24h down to 4h. Exclusively for sites hosted on our sister company 365i; free migration included. Full plan comparison.
Ad-Hoc Work
£40 per hour
For work outside a quoted project or plan allowance. The UK agency market typically charges £70-£150 per hour; we keep overheads low and price accordingly. Cost confirmed before any work starts.
Speed, Security & Migration
£300 - £2,500
Speed optimisation typically £500-£2,000. Security hardening from £500, malware removal from £300. WordPress-to-WordPress migrations £500-£2,500.
All prices exclude VAT. 365i hosting (from £5.99/month) is billed separately from any maintenance plan.
Prices last reviewed by Mark McNeece on 11 June 2026. Reviewed quarterly.
What Moves the Price, and When Not to Hire Us
What pushes a quote up
Page count matters less than people expect. The real cost drivers are custom functionality (booking systems, member areas, API integrations), content that doesn't exist yet and needs writing, large product catalogues, and migrations from platforms that make exporting data awkward. We itemise all of it in the written quote so you can see exactly what each part costs.
When we're the wrong choice
If your budget is under £1,500, a DIY builder or WordPress.com will serve you better than any agency at that price, including us. If you need Shopify or Webflow specifically, we don't build on hosted platforms and won't pretend to. And if you want 24/7 phone support, our support is UK business hours; we'd rather tell you now than disappoint you later.
Every quote on this page is honoured by Mark McNeece, founder of Press Forge and 365i.
25+ years building WordPress sites · 4 plugins on WordPress.org · author of the AI Visibility Definition · more about us
What Our Clients Say
“The best hosting provider I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with (and I've tried a few over the years!). Superb personal service, no foreign call centres and you get to deal with people who really know what they're talking about.”
“With Marks help not only was the migration seamless and speedy but Mark fixed a lot of persistent issues that had been around for ages. Since then the support we have got from Mark is exemplary and I simply could not have wished for better.”
“The big one for me is performance. I know how important Google PageSpeed is, and this site hits 100 across the board, which I never thought I'd see. Fast, solid, and done properly.”
Pricing Questions, Answered
Something we haven't covered? Ask us directly.
Across the UK market, small business WordPress sites run from around £1,500 to £8,000+ depending on size and complexity. Our published brackets sit inside that range: £1,500-£3,000 for a starter site, £3,000-£5,500 for most business sites, and £5,500-£8,000+ for custom builds. Every project gets a fixed written quote before work starts.
Anywhere from £30 to over £500 per month. The price reflects three things: included edit time, response SLA speed, and whether the provider controls the hosting. Our plans are £30, £69, and £149 per month, and they're exclusively for sites hosted on our sister company 365i, which is what makes the response times realistic.
Because hourly billing on projects puts the overrun risk on you. A fixed quote means we carry the risk of underestimating, which keeps our scoping honest. The £40/hour rate exists for genuinely open-ended work: small changes, investigations, and tasks outside a project scope or plan allowance.
No, all published prices exclude VAT. UK customers pay VAT at the standard rate on top. We state this everywhere a price appears because surprise VAT on an invoice is exactly the kind of hidden cost this page exists to avoid.
No. We don't host websites ourselves; hosting is provided by our sister company 365i, with managed WordPress hosting from £5.99 per month billed separately. Keeping hosting and build costs separate means you always know what each part costs.
Most UK agencies charge £70-£150 per hour, and a chunk of that pays for account managers, sales teams, and office space. We're founder-led with low overheads, so £40/hour is sustainable for us and fair to you. The work itself is the same standard we publish in our case studies.
Only if you change the scope. The quoted price is fixed for the work described in the quote. If you ask for something extra mid-project, we price the difference, agree it with you in writing, and only then do the work.
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