Lahore engineering hub, serving Dubai & the UAE
WordPress Development inDubai
10silicon provides WordPress development Dubai marketing teams and business owners can rely on when the site has to do real work: generate leads, sell products, load fast on mobile and stay secure without a developer on call. We build custom themes, Elementor sites and WooCommerce stores for companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and the rest of the UAE, with a WordPress team based in our Lahore engineering hub and support in Gulf hours.
WordPress runs a large share of business websites in the UAE, and most of the problems we are asked to fix come from the same place: a bloated theme, forty plugins, no backups and a host that was chosen on price. Over 7+ years and 100+ projects we have learned to build sites that avoid those problems, and to rescue the ones that already have them.
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- 7+
- Years experience
- 100+
- Projects delivered
- GST
- UAE working hours
- Free
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What we build
Services for Dubai businesses
Custom WordPress themes
Designed for your brand and coded from scratch, with only the plugins you need. No purchased theme with two hundred options your team will never use.
Elementor builds
For teams that want to edit pages themselves, we build on Elementor with a locked design system, global styles and custom widgets, so editors can move fast without breaking the layout.
WooCommerce stores
Product catalogues, variations, UAE payment gateways, cash on delivery, VAT handling, shipping rules by emirate and integration with your accounting or ERP system.
Speed optimisation
Image compression, caching, critical CSS, database cleanup and a proper host, measured against Core Web Vitals before and after. We fix slow sites we did not build.
Security hardening
Login protection, file permissions, firewall rules, malware removal and clean-up after a hack, automatic updates with staging tests, and offsite backups you can restore in minutes.
Migrations and multilingual
Moving from Wix, Squarespace, Joomla or another WordPress host with redirects that keep your rankings, and Arabic and English sites with WPML or Polylang and correct RTL styling.
Tech stack we use
- WordPress
- PHP 8
- Elementor
- WooCommerce
- Advanced Custom Fields
- WPML
- Polylang
- MySQL
- Cloudflare
- LiteSpeed / Nginx
- Git
- UAE payment gateways
How we work
Our 3-step process
- 1
Strategic Discovery
We map your goals, users, constraints and success metrics into a scoped plan with a fixed first milestone before any code is written.
- 2
Agile Engineering
Two-week sprints with a demo at the end of each one. You see working software, not status reports, and can change direction early.
- 3
Deployment & Growth
Production launch with monitoring, documentation and a growth plan: performance, SEO, analytics and a maintenance retainer if you want one.
Indicative pricing
What it costs in Dubai
WordPress pricing depends on whether the design is custom or based on a premium theme, the number of pages and languages, WooCommerce and integrations, and how much content we produce.
Tier 1
Business website
AED 5,500 - 15,000
USD 1,500 - 4,000
Timeline: 3 - 5 weeks
- Premium theme customised to your brand
- Up to 8 pages
- Contact and WhatsApp forms
- Speed and security hardening
Tier 2
Custom corporate site
AED 15,000 - 37,000
USD 4,000 - 10,000
Timeline: 5 - 8 weeks
- Custom theme designed in Figma
- Arabic and English with WPML or Polylang
- Blog and landing-page system
- On-page SEO and schema
Tier 3
WooCommerce store
AED 22,000 - 66,000
USD 6,000 - 18,000
Timeline: 6 - 10 weeks
- Catalogue and variations
- UAE payment gateway and COD
- Delivery and VAT invoicing
- Training for your team
Ranges are indicative 2026 market figures for the UAE, not quotes. Every proposal is written after Strategic Discovery with a fixed price for the first milestone.
Why it works
A WordPress agency in Dubai costs more. Here is what a Lahore team changes
WordPress work is a mix of one-off builds and a long tail of small jobs: a new landing page before an exhibition, a plugin that broke after an update, a form that stopped sending to your CRM. A WordPress agency in Dubai has to bill those small jobs at Dubai rates, so they either cost too much or wait weeks in a queue. Our developers are full-time employees in Lahore, one hour behind Gulf Standard Time, which means a request sent in the morning is usually handled the same working day and the monthly cost of looking after a site is a fraction of local rates.
The trade-off with cheap freelancers is that nobody owns the result. With 10silicon you get a named developer who knows your site, a staging copy where every change is tested first, and a project lead reachable on WhatsApp at +971 56 639 0908 in UAE hours. We do not have a Dubai office. We offer video consultation at every stage and on-site consultation in Dubai when a workshop with your marketing team is the faster way to agree the plan.
Agency vs offshore vs hybrid
Choosing a wordpress development dubai partner: how the options compare
Rates are indicative 2026 market figures for senior work. The point is not the cheapest hour; it is senior engineers, full working-hours overlap and ownership of what you pay for.
| Criteria | Dubai agency | Offshore shop | 10silicon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative hourly rate | USD 60 - 120 | USD 15 - 35 | USD 25 - 45 |
| Working-hours overlap with GST | Full | Often 2 - 4 hours | Full (Lahore is GST minus 1) |
| Who you talk to | Account manager | Rotating contacts | Named engineer and project lead |
| Demos | Monthly or at milestones | Varies | Every two weeks on a staging URL |
| Code and accounts | Usually yours | Sometimes theirs | Always in your repos and cloud accounts |
| In-person meetings | At their office | Rare | Video any time; on-site in Dubai by arrangement |
| Arabic / RTL and UAE payments | Yes | Varies | Yes, standard on every build |
UAE-ready by default
Built for how business works in Dubai
Offshore teams often learn UAE requirements on your project. We treat them as standard scope, so Arabic, AED payments, VAT invoicing and data protection are designed in rather than bolted on.
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Arabic & RTL interfaces
Bilingual English-Arabic layouts planned from the first wireframe, with right-to-left mirroring and Arabic typography that holds up on mobile.
- 02
UAE payment gateways
Integration with Network International, Telr, PayTabs, Stripe and bank gateways, plus Tabby and Tamara instalments and cash on delivery flows.
- 03
VAT and e-invoicing
FTA-compliant tax invoices with TRN, 5% VAT handling, credit notes and exports your accountant can reconcile.
- 04
Data protection by design
Built with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law in mind: consent records, access control, encryption and data residency in Gulf cloud regions when required.
- 05
Sector rules designed in
For fintech, healthcare and education builds we design for regulator expectations such as CBUAE, DHA and MOHAP requirements; compliance sign-off stays with your advisers.
- 06
WhatsApp-first customer flows
Click-to-chat, WhatsApp Business API notifications and lead capture, because that is how UAE customers actually get in touch.
Compliance sign-off for regulated sectors stays with your legal and regulatory advisers; we build to the requirements they specify.
Fit
When WordPress is the right choice, and when it is not
WordPress is the right platform for corporate sites, clinics, law and consulting firms, schools, real estate brokerages, restaurants and online stores with up to a few thousand products. It gives your marketing team a familiar editor, a huge ecosystem, and an easy path to find other developers later, which protects you from being locked into any single agency, including us.
It is the wrong platform for a SaaS product, a customer portal with complex permissions, or a marketplace with real-time features. In those cases we will say so in the first call and point you to our web development team instead. Being honest about this early saves clients from the expensive rebuild that follows when a plugin-heavy WordPress site is pushed past what it was designed for.
Approach
How we deliver WordPress development for Dubai clients
Our three-step process applies to WordPress as much as to custom software. Strategic Discovery covers your goals, sitemap, content inventory, integrations and the editing experience your team needs, and ends with a fixed quote. Agile Engineering builds the site on a staging URL where you review pages as they are finished rather than waiting for a big reveal. Deployment & Growth handles DNS, launch checks, training for your editors and an optional maintenance plan.
For UAE businesses a few details matter more than elsewhere. Arabic pages need proper RTL styling, not a mirrored English layout with broken icons. WhatsApp click-to-chat buttons convert better than contact forms for most local audiences. Hosting location affects speed, so we usually recommend a server in the Gulf or a CDN with a Middle East edge. And every site ships with the technical SEO basics in place, because our Dubai SEO team sits in the same building.
- Fixed quote after discovery; no hourly surprises on the build
- Staging site with page-by-page review during the build
- Editor training session recorded for your team
- Core Web Vitals, security scan and backup check before go-live
Aftercare
Maintenance plans that keep the site fast and safe
Most hacked WordPress sites were not targeted; they were simply running an old plugin with a known vulnerability. Our maintenance plans exist to stop that. Every month we update WordPress core, themes and plugins on a staging copy, run the site through visual and functional checks, then push to production. Daily offsite backups, uptime monitoring, a web application firewall and malware scanning run continuously.
Plans include a block of development hours for small changes, so adding a landing page or fixing a form does not need a new quote. Reports arrive monthly with speed scores, uptime, updates applied and hours used. If you already have a site built elsewhere, we start with an audit, fix what is urgent, and take over maintenance from there.
Also known as
WordPress website design, WooCommerce and WordPress maintenance in Dubai
Clients find us by searching for WordPress website design in Dubai, a WordPress agency, WooCommerce developers, WordPress migration help or WordPress maintenance in the UAE. Those are the same four things we do every week: design and build new sites, build or fix WooCommerce stores, move sites between hosts or from other platforms, and keep existing sites patched, fast and backed up.
We also take over sites other agencies built. A short audit tells you what is wrong, what is risky and what it would cost to fix, and you decide whether to repair or rebuild.
Case study
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FAQ
WordPress Development Dubai: common questions
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Tell us what you need and we will reply within one UAE business day with questions, a rough budget range and a proposed first milestone. Video or on-site consultation in Dubai.
- WhatsApp / call: +971 56 639 0908
- Email: contact@10silicon.com
- Lahore HQ · Serving Dubai, Abu Dhabi & the UAE