A vibe-coded WordPress website costs $5,800 flat and ships in seven to ten days. You get a custom classic PHP theme — not a $60 template with your colors, not Elementor soup — up to 15 pages, custom post types where your content needs structure, and an editor a non-technical person can actually use. Code lands in your GitHub.
Who this is for
Businesses that publish. If you want to run a blog, update your own menu or team page weekly, or manage structured content like locations, services, or case studies, you need a CMS, and WordPress still runs about 43 percent of the web for a reason. If you just need eight pages that never change, save $3,000 and take the static build — we will point you there ourselves.
What you get
- A custom theme vibe coded from our own WordPress prompt library, then hand-finished: escaping, sanitization, nonces, the security work AI skips when nobody is checking.
- No page-builder dependency. Classic PHP templates that load fast and will not break when a builder plugin changes its pricing model.
- Up to 15 pages plus custom post types where they earn their keep — services, locations, projects, whatever your business is actually made of.
- A blog set up so you can publish without asking anyone for help.
- SEO wiring most agencies bill extra for: schema markup, XML sitemap, Yoast configured, clean permalinks, meta descriptions everywhere.
- Setup on solid managed hosting (your account, roughly $15-30 a month) and a proper walkthrough at handoff.
- 30 days of free fixes after launch, then you decide if you want a care plan or the keys and a handshake.
How it goes
- Day 0-1: Form, quick kickoff, we lock scope and deadline.
- Days 2-8: Build, with a 2-minute progress video in your inbox every night.
- Days 9-10: Content load, SEO pass, launch, and a screen-share walkthrough of your new admin.
What it costs, exactly
| Item | Cost | When |
|---|---|---|
| Design + build + launch | $5,800 flat | Once |
| Managed hosting | $15-30/mo | Ongoing, paid to the host |
| Domain | ~$12/yr | Ongoing, paid to the registrar |
| Care plan (optional) | From $290/mo | If you want updates handled |
That is the whole list. For context on what agencies charge for the same scope, we published the numbers in our WordPress pricing breakdown — typical custom builds run $8,000-25,000 in most US markets.
Straight answers to the usual questions
Why is this $3,000 more than the static site?
A CMS is a machine, not a brochure. Database, theme templates, editor experience, plugin choices, security hardening, hosting setup — WordPress carries real moving parts, and each one is a place where cheap builds go wrong. The extra $3,000 is those parts done carefully.
Will I be able to edit everything myself?
Pages, posts, images, menus — yes, and we record the walkthrough so you can rewatch it. Structural design changes stay in code, which is what keeps the site from slowly turning into a ransom note of mismatched fonts.
Which plugins do you install?
As few as possible — typically Yoast SEO, a form plugin, and a backup tool. Every plugin is a future update, a security surface, and a possible conflict. The 40-plugin pileup is exactly the disease we are hired to avoid.
Can you rescue my existing WordPress site instead?
Often, yes. If it is broken, start with the $450 rescue diagnostic. If it is just old and embarrassing, that is a migration and we will quote it in a day.
What does it mean to vibe code a WordPress website?
It means the theme gets built from a long written spec run through AI, then hand-finished by people who know WordPress — escaping, sanitization, editor experience, the parts AI skips when nobody is checking. Custom code in days instead of weeks, without the page-builder bloat.