WordPress & WooCommerce
WordPress sites built to be owned, not rented.
Elite Dev builds and maintains WordPress and WooCommerce sites for Australian businesses, from $500 ex GST. WordPress is what most of our work runs on because it is the platform you can still take with you if you ever leave.
It is the most common CMS in the world, which cuts both ways: enormous flexibility, and a lot of badly built sites giving it a bad name.
Why WordPress
The case for it, and the case against.
We would rather you chose it for the right reason than because we defaulted you into it.
You own it outright
The site, the database and the content are yours. Any WordPress developer on earth can pick it up. There is no platform that can raise your rent.
It grows with you
A brochure site becomes a shop becomes a booking system without starting over. That is rarely true of template platforms.
It needs looking after
Core, theme and plugin updates are a real job. Left alone for a year, a WordPress site becomes a security problem. This is what managed hosting is for.
WooCommerce
When your shop should be WooCommerce, and when it should not.
Selling online is not one problem, and the right answer is not always the same platform.
The shop is part of a bigger site
You are a service business that also sells some products, or a shop with substantial content around it. Keeping one site is simpler and cheaper.
The shop is the business
Hundreds of SKUs, real fulfilment, daily merchandising. Shopify does that job better and we will tell you so.
We will say which
We build both. There is no commission steering the recommendation.
Websites from $500 ex GST
One page $500. Up to five pages $1,000. Up to twelve $2,500. All ex GST, quoted before we start. Bigger or custom builds are priced on scope.
Frequently asked questions
Is WordPress secure?
It is as secure as its maintenance. The vulnerabilities that get exploited are almost always out-of-date plugins on sites nobody has touched in a year. Kept updated, monitored and backed up, it is fine — which is exactly what our managed hosting does.
Can you fix or take over an existing WordPress site?
Yes. We take over other people’s builds regularly. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth repairing or whether you are better off rebuilding.
Do I need WooCommerce to take payments?
Not necessarily. If you only need deposits or a handful of fixed-price services, a payment link or a simple checkout is far less to maintain than a full shop.
What does WordPress cost to run?
Hosting and maintenance, and that is it — there are no per-transaction or per-page platform fees. Our managed hosting covers updates, backups and monitoring.
Start here
Tell us what you need.
Send through what your business does and what you have in mind for a website. We will come back with a straight answer on price and timeline.