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What a WordPress Store Really Costs in Algeria for One Year

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A WordPress store costs about 3,200 to 5,700 DZD in cash for its first year if you host it in Algeria and use only free software. It costs about 28,000 DZD in that first year once you buy a theme and a page builder licence, and it costs more hours than dinars either way.

DZBuild publishes this article, and DZBuild sells one of the options priced here. Every price below was read from the seller's own page on 7 September 2026, and every source is listed at the end.

Is WordPress free, and which WordPress do you mean​

Two different products carry the same name, and the price gap between them is large.

WordPress.org is the software. You download it for nothing and install it on hosting you pay for. This is the one people mean when they say WordPress is free.

WordPress.com is a paid service run by a company. On 7 September 2026 its pricing page showed a free plan at 0, then Personal, Premium, Business, Commerce and an Enterprise plan priced on request. Prices appeared in euro when we read them, and the currency shown can change with your country.

The plan built for selling is Commerce, printed as "€70 €45 €36 €31.50 per month" for monthly, yearly, two-year and three-year billing. At 154.76 DZD to the euro on the same day, the yearly option works out at about 6,960 DZD per month, or 83,500 DZD for the year.

The free plan cannot install plugins, and WooCommerce is a plugin. WooCommerce's own site offers "Download WooCommerce free". So the software is free and the shop is not.

What you pay for in the first year​

This table prices the WordPress.org route: your own hosting, with WooCommerce on top. Dollar prices are converted at 133.20 DZD, the rate published on 7 September 2026.

LineCheapest option we checkedYear one
WordPress softwarefree download0 DZD
WooCommercefree download0 DZD
Hosting in AlgeriaOctenium Particulier at 3,200 DA per year on offer, 4,700 DA normally3,200 DZD
Domain name.dz free with an Octenium yearly plan, or .com at 2,500 DA0 to 2,500 DZD
SSL certificatelisted inside the Algerian hosting packs we read0 DZD
Themefree from the official directory, or WoodMart at 69 dollars0 or about 9,200 DZD
Page builderthe free Elementor version, or Kadence Essentials at 99 dollars a year0 or about 13,200 DZD
Security pluginWordfence free version0 DZD
Backupsdaily backups are listed in the Laticode packs we read0 DZD

Everything free comes to about 3,200 to 5,700 DZD for the year. A bought theme plus a builder licence comes to about 28,100 DZD.

Two of those lines are paid in dollars, so they need an international card. The hosting and the domain can be paid in dinars to an Algerian company.

One line deserves a note, because people budget for it and then forget it. A certificate is a yearly job on your own server whenever the host does not renew it. On a hosted store it is not a line at all: on DZBuild you paste one CNAME line at your domain seller, and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.

What free hosting gives you, and what it takes​

Free hosting is the most searched shortcut in this subject, and it is the wrong one for a shop.

The one free plan we could check, on WordPress.com, does not allow plugins. No plugins means no WooCommerce, so it cannot be a store at all.

Free hosts that do let you install WordPress still pay for a server every month. Read what the offer asks in return before your orders live on it. We did not verify any individual free host's terms on the day, so we are not naming one.

The saving is small in any case, since the cheapest Algerian pack we read is 3,200 DA for a full year. Speed is worth more than that. Google reported in 2016 that 53% of mobile visits are abandoned when a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, and most of your buyers arrive on a phone.

What themes cost, and the risk in a copied one​

The official WordPress theme directory listed 8,572 themes on 7 September 2026, free to download. A free theme is a real answer here, not a compromise.

Paid themes are sold per site. WoodMart, a WooCommerce theme on ThemeForest, was listed at 69 dollars that day, about 9,200 DZD, with 6 months of support. Support runs out; the theme keeps working.

The keyword list behind this article is full of people searching for cracked copies of paid themes and builders. A copied file gives you no updates, no support, and whatever the person who repackaged it put inside the code. Your shop holds customer names, phone numbers and home addresses. That is what you would be risking to save 9,200 DZD.

The legal free answer is the official directory, one search away inside your own dashboard.

Which plugins an Algerian store still needs​

WooCommerce is the shop itself: products, cart, checkout, orders. It is free, and cash on delivery comes with it. WooCommerce's documentation calls it part of "the free, core WooCommerce plugin", found under Settings and then Payments.

After that, an Algerian store needs two things WordPress knows nothing about: a price per wilaya, and a way to hand the parcel to a courier. Both are covered in our post on WooCommerce and cash on delivery, which walks the wiring step by step.

Security matters more on a shop than on a blog. Wordfence is free to install, and its page on the plugin directory says the free version receives firewall rules 30 days after paying users. We could not read the price of the paid version on its own site on 7 September 2026, so we are not printing one.

Then a cache for speed, an anti-spam plugin, and something that takes backups. Each one is another thing to keep updated, and that work never appears in anybody's price table.

The 58 wilaya delivery table nobody prices​

Algeria has 58 wilayas. A shop needs a home price and a desk price for each one. That is 116 numbers before you take a single order.

Then come the decisions around them: which wilayas you will not serve, how many days each takes, and a fresh pass every time your courier changes its grid. On WooCommerce you build that as shipping zones by hand, one at a time, and you keep it correct yourself.

Handing over the parcel is separate work again. Algerian couriers do not publish their own plugins. On 7 September 2026 the WordPress plugin directory returned two results for the search "yalidine": Createk Delivery for Yalidine, with fewer than 10 active installations, and Yaxii Shipping Manager, with 10 or more. Both come from third parties. A daily part of your business would sit on a plugin used by fewer than 10 sites.

The jobWordPress and WooCommerceHosted store on DZBuild
The 116 wilaya pricesyou type them ina default grid computed across major Algerian providers, applied in one click
Raise every price at onceedit each zoneone strip sets a floor price across all 58 wilayas
Stop serving one wilayadelete the zonea switch per wilaya, home and desk each on their own
Show the buyer the delivery daysyou write it into the page texta delivery-days estimate per wilaya
Send the order to the couriera third-party plugin, per courierincluded in the plan

That last row is the one you cannot price for yourself. On DZBuild the send button hands the courier the name, phone, address, item list, delivery type and the cash to collect, then writes the tracking number back onto the order.

What a hosted store costs instead​

DZBuild's prices, read from its own subscription page on 7 September 2026:

PlanPer monthTwelve months
Pro1,000 DZD10,000 DZD
Unlimited2,500 DZD25,000 DZD
Enterprisefrom 5,500 DZDfrom 55,000 DZD

Pro is 1,000 DZD per month, or 10,000 DZD for twelve months. You can pay by CIB or EDAHABIA card, by BaridiMob transfer with a receipt, or by a global card billed in USD. There is no commission on your sales. The first 3 days are free and no bank card is asked for at signup.

Now put the two totals beside each other. A WordPress store on an Algerian host with free software costs about 3,200 to 5,700 DZD in its first year. Pro for the same year costs 10,000 DZD. In cash, WordPress wins.

The gap is 4,300 to 6,800 DZD, depending on whether you paid for a domain. It buys the 116 delivery prices, the courier connection and the updates you never run. Whether that trade is worth the money depends on what an evening of your time is worth to you.

When WordPress is the right choice​

There are cases where the honest recommendation is WordPress, and they are not rare.

  • You want to own the code and move it to another host whenever you decide to.
  • You already run a WordPress site and the shop is a small part of it.
  • You sell to buyers outside Algeria who pay by card.
  • Someone maintains it for you, and that someone is not you at 11 at night.

The other side of a hosted store belongs right here, not in a footnote. You do not own the code and you cannot take it with you. The storefront runs in Arabic or French only, with no English shop. Your store address is fixed when the store is created and cannot be changed afterwards. And there is no CSV export of orders in the dashboard today, so a Google Sheets sync on Pro is the way around it.

If those four are acceptable, and what you want is the wilaya table and the courier connection already built, the first 3 days of Pro are free, no bank card is asked for, and cancelling costs nothing. After those 3 days you pick a paid plan, and the storefront stops selling until you do. You can open a store and look. If you would rather own your code, WooCommerce is the honest alternative, and the platform comparison below covers both.

Questions about WordPress store costs​

Is WordPress free or paid? The software is free. The store is not. Hosting starts at 3,200 DA per year in Algeria, and a domain costs about 2,500 DA, so the cheapest real first year is roughly 3,200 to 5,700 DZD.

How much does a WordPress site cost in Algeria? Between about 3,200 DZD and about 28,100 DZD for year one, depending on whether you buy a theme and a builder. Everything above 5,700 DZD is optional.

What is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? WordPress.org is the free software you install on your own hosting. WordPress.com is a paid service that hosts it for you, with a Commerce plan listed at 45 euro per month billed yearly on 7 September 2026, about 83,500 DZD for the year.

Can I get free WordPress hosting? Yes, and it is a poor idea for a shop. The WordPress.com free plan blocks plugins, so WooCommerce cannot run on it, and an Algerian pack costs 3,200 DA for a year.

Do I need Elementor Pro? No. Elementor has a free version and the official directory carries 8,572 free themes. We tried to read Elementor Pro's price on 7 September 2026 and could not, because that page draws its prices with a script, so we are not quoting a figure.

Are free WordPress themes safe? Themes taken from the official WordPress directory are the safe route and cost nothing. A copy of a paid theme downloaded from somewhere else is not the same thing, whatever the file is called.

Can WooCommerce take cash on delivery? Yes. Cash on delivery ships with the free core plugin. The delivery prices per wilaya and the courier handover are the parts you build yourself.

How these prices were checked​

Every figure in this article was read on 7 September 2026, on the seller's own page.

Two numbers are missing above because we could not verify them: the price of Elementor Pro, and the price of the paid Wordfence tiers. Both sites draw their prices with a script that did not load for us that day.

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