Who this is for
Businesses that need a site their own team can update: clinics, law firms, schools, tour operators, finance companies, agencies and founders. WordPress is the right default for almost all of them because you stay independent. Any developer in Kathmandu can maintain it, your content is exportable, and nobody can hold the site hostage.
It is the wrong choice in two cases. If you need a real product with users, permissions and business logic, that is custom web development. If you sell a large catalogue with complex shipping and payment rules, start at eCommerce website development instead. The wider scoping conversation, including which of these you need, is on web design and development.
What a WordPress build includes
- A custom or lightweight theme built for your pages, rather than a marketplace theme with twelve demos you will never use.
- A block library: hero, service card, pricing table, FAQ, proof strip, team, CTA. Your team assembles new pages from these without breaking the design.
- A short plugin list, each one justified. Every plugin is a security surface and a speed cost, and most sites I inherit could drop half of theirs.
- Speed work at build time: modern image formats, lazy loading, caching, controlled fonts and scripts, aimed at passing Core Web Vitals on a mobile connection.
- SEO structure: clean URLs, editable titles and meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, schema markup, XML sitemap and redirects from any old URLs.
- Tracking: GA4 and Google Tag Manager installed, with form, call and WhatsApp click events firing and verified before launch.
- Forms that go somewhere: enquiries stored in the site as well as emailed, with spam protection and a copy to a Sheet or CRM.
- Security and backups: hardened logins, automatic updates for what should be automatic, and off-site backups from day one.
- Nepali and English where you need both, decided as a structure question before design rather than patched on with a translate plugin.
How I build a WordPress site
- Scope (week one). Page list, features, content owner for each page, and a fixed quote. If you have an existing site, I crawl it first so no URL disappears silently.
- Content and structure (weeks one to two). Sitemap, wireframes and the copy. Design starts after the words exist.
- Design (weeks two to three). Homepage and one inner template, then the rest of the block system after one round of feedback.
- Build (weeks three to five). Theme, blocks, pages, forms and speed work on a staging site you can open at any time.
- Checks (week five). Mobile testing on a real phone on a real Nepali connection, a crawl for broken links and redirects, tracking verification, and a form test from an outside address.
- Launch and training. DNS switch, post-launch crawl, Search Console submission, and a recorded session teaching your team to edit pages, add posts and use the blocks.
Five to seven weeks is typical for a business site. Content approval on your side is the usual reason a build runs long.
What you receive
- The live site, with the domain, hosting and admin in your name.
- Theme files and documentation, so any developer can pick it up.
- A block library with examples of each block in use.
- GA4 and GTM configured, with a list of the events firing.
- A redirect map from the old site, if there was one.
- A recorded training session and a written launch checklist.
- Thirty days of post-launch fixes.
Why not a page builder
Elementor, Divi and their equivalents are quick to start and expensive to live with. They load large amounts of CSS and JavaScript on every page, they lock your content into their own markup, and a site built in one is hard to move. Two years later the pages are slow, the licence is a recurring cost, and rebuilding is the only real fix. The block editor that ships with WordPress does the same job for a business site with a fraction of the weight, so that is what I build on. Where a client already has a builder site and wants to keep it, I will say honestly whether it is worth optimizing or rebuilding under website redesign.
After launch
A WordPress site needs maintenance: core, theme and plugin updates, backups, security checks and the occasional broken thing after an update. That is WordPress maintenance and care plans, and it is optional rather than bundled. If your hosting is the reason the site is slow, moving it is hosting and website migration. Ongoing ranking work is WordPress SEO.
Pricing pointer
WordPress builds are fixed-price projects quoted after one call, based on the page count, the amount of custom functionality and how much content has to be written. The price is on request. Hosting, domain and any premium plugin licences are paid by you at cost, in your own accounts.
Next step
Send me your current site if you have one, the pages you think you need and a rough deadline. I reply within 4 business hours with questions and a quote, and the free 30-minute call is enough to settle scope.