We build and repair WordPress sites for Kuwait businesses: a theme made for your company, real Arabic and English, WooCommerce with local payment options, and a site fast enough to keep the visitor who arrived from a phone. Work runs 17 to 85 hours at 10 KWD per hour, which is 170 to 850 KWD.
What usually goes wrong with WordPress
WordPress is not the problem. How it gets installed usually is. The common story in Kuwait: someone bought a template, installed twenty plugins to make it behave, added a translation plugin for Arabic, and put the whole thing on the cheapest hosting available. It looked acceptable on the designer’s laptop.
A year later the site takes several seconds to open on mobile data, the Arabic version has English menus and left-aligned text, two plugins are abandoned by their authors, nobody has taken a backup, and the only person who can change a price has left the company. When it is eventually hacked, it is through a plugin that has not been updated since the site launched.
The fix is not a different platform. It is building less, updating what exists, and treating Arabic as a first language rather than a switch in the corner.
What you get
- A theme built around your content and your business, not a template bent into shape.
- Arabic and English with a genuine right-to-left layout: menus, forms, buttons and typography that read correctly, not a mirror image with broken spacing.
- WooCommerce when you sell, with KNET and the other local options your customers expect at checkout.
- Page speed treated as part of the build: right sized images, caching and hosting that serves Kuwait visitors quickly.
- Security hardening, automatic backups you can restore from, and a plugin update routine that does not break the site.
- A content editor your staff can use without a developer, plus a short training session in Arabic.
- Every login in your name: domain, hosting, site. Handed over in full.
How we work
- Free first hour with an engineer. We look at what you have, what it costs you and whether WordPress is even the right answer for the job.
- Structure and scope. Pages, navigation, what must be editable, what the site is supposed to make happen, and the hours for each piece.
- Design against real content. We design with your actual Arabic and English text, because layouts that only work with placeholder text fail when the real words arrive.
- Build. Theme, editable sections, forms that reach the right inbox and WhatsApp, and the store if you sell.
- Speed, security and search basics. Image handling, caching, hardening, backups, correct page titles and descriptions in both languages.
- Train and hand over. Your team learns to publish, you receive every login, and we stay available for the first months.
Cost and timeline
| Scope | Hours | Cost at 10 KWD/hour | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small bilingual company site | 17 to 35 | 170 to 350 KWD | 2 to 3 weeks |
| Larger site with custom theme and content migration | 35 to 60 | 350 to 600 KWD | 3 to 5 weeks |
| WooCommerce store with payment integration | 60 to 85 | 600 to 850 KWD | 4 to 6 weeks |
Hosting and domain are paid by you and are not in these figures. You can model a bigger project in the cost calculator.
Is WordPress the right choice for you
WordPress suits businesses that publish: clinics, schools, law firms, agencies, anyone who wants staff to add pages without a developer. For a store, read our comparison of Shopify and WooCommerce for Kuwait before you commit, and see the ecommerce development practice if selling is the main point of the site. If your site is heavy, custom or handles bookings and accounts, our web development practice covers building it outside WordPress, and bilingual website development covers getting Arabic and English right in either case. Already have a site that simply looks old? A website redesign is usually cheaper than starting again. For longer work inside your team, you can hire a WordPress developer.
Pitfalls to avoid
- Collecting plugins. Every one is code you did not write and must keep updated. Fewer is faster and safer.
- Pirated premium themes. The cheapest way to get a site with malware already installed.
- Translation plugins for Arabic. Machine translation on a business site costs you credibility with the customers you most want.
- Cheap shared hosting. It is the first thing we blame for slow Kuwait sites, and usually correctly.
- No backups. A backup you have never restored from is not a backup.
- Letting the agency own your domain. Register it in your company name. Always.
Book a free consultation and we will tell you whether your current site is worth repairing or replacing.