WordPress developer in France: one studio, one contact

Three offers, one person behind all three, and no middleman. WordPress maintenance and hosting make up a monthly plan starting at €39 excl. VAT, hosting included, with a minimum commitment of six months: daily updates to the core, the themes and the plugins after a compatibility check, externalised backups kept for up to 50 days, continuous monitoring of uptime and PHP errors, fifteen minutes of support per month.

Online shops rest on WordPress and WooCommerce. They start at €69 excl. VAT per month over twenty-four months, with no setup fee, maintenance and hosting included, and card payment through Stripe. I take no commission on sales. Custom sites are billed by the day of development, from €420 excl. VAT, or by the hour, at €60.

The person who answers the phone is the one who updates the site, restores a backup and fixes a plugin. In a remote relationship, that continuity matters more than elsewhere. I work with WordPress, WooCommerce, GeneratePress and Gutenberg, and Stripe for online payments. I publish two open source plugins on the official WordPress repository, Updatronix for managing updates and ZenPress for making the site lighter. I build custom WordPress sites backed by a measured and verifiable quality approach: the certification Opquast niveau expert, a score of 958 out of 1,000 obtained in 2024, and an ISTQB software tester certification obtained in 2022. More than fifty projects are online, and ten years of WordPress practice sit behind them.

I also work in production for agencies. The agency keeps the client relationship and the invoicing, and I build the site.

A site is made of files and a database. None of that sits in an office. That is what makes remote work possible without losing anything, provided proximity is replaced by something else.

That something is the framing. A project run at a distance holds on checkpoints fixed in advance, shared tracking where you can see progress, written reports and announced channels of contact. You do not have to chase to find out where the work stands.

There are cases where distance does not suit, and it is better to say so before starting. If your project assumes a presence on site, a photographic shoot, an installation or a workshop with several people, this studio is not the one. If your problem requires an urgent physical intervention, no either. And if your activity rests entirely on a local network, a nearby provider will serve you better.

There is a less visible limit, and it is structural. A one-person studio does not run three rebuilds at once without the third one waiting. When a project cannot keep the pace asked of it, I say so at quoting time, not at delivery time.

What puts a remote client off is well known: the fear that the provider vanishes after the deposit, the impression of having to spend hours on video calls over something that would take ten minutes, and the absence of verifiable references. The answers come down to three things: the studio’s book of reviews is public, the terms are written and published, and a quote comes before any commitment.

A site price does not come out of a grid. Four things determine it: the number of pages and their nature, whether there is a shop, who writes the content, and what has to be done with whatever already exists. Taking over a site already online and building a new one from a blank page are not the same amount of work, even with the same number of pages.

The studio’s prices are public. Development is billed at €60 excl. VAT per hour or €420 excl. VAT per day. Maintenance and hosting start at €39 excl. VAT per month. The minimum commitment is six months. An online shop starts at €69 excl. VAT per month over twenty-four months, with no setup fee.

A written quote states the two halves of the thing: what is included, and what is not. In the maintenance plan, site editing is not included. It is billed at the hourly rate, and unused minutes cannot be carried over or accumulated. That is a frequent source of misunderstanding, so it is written in black and white.

Two things are never billed here. I take no commission on an online shop’s sales, whatever turnover it reaches. And the client’s location does not enter the price: a remote project costs neither more nor less than one run in the same town, since no travelling is billed on either side.

A site addressing French clients is subject to a set of legal texts, and it is useful to know which ones before discussing design.

The General Data Protection Regulation has applied since 25 May 2018, with no threshold: it concerns any company processing data of people located in Europe. In practice that requires clear information at the point of collection, a legal basis for each processing operation, and a defined retention period. Non-essential trackers, such as advanced analytics or targeted advertising, require prior consent, and refusing must be as easy as accepting.

The law on confidence in the digital economy requires legal notice reachable from the site: the identity of the publisher, its registration, its contact details and those of its host. Failure to provide this notice is punishable, by up to €75,000 for a natural person and €375,000 for a legal entity.

For an online shop selling to private individuals, terms of sale are added, along with a fourteen-day right of withdrawal recalled with its standard form, and an order button with unambiguous wording, along the lines of “order with obligation to pay”.

Since 28 June 2025, accessibility has been added to that list for electronic commerce, under European directive 2019/882. Micro-enterprises employing fewer than ten employees and turning over less than two million euros are exempt. The reference technical framework in France is the RGAA.

Part of these obligations depends on the site, and another part depends on the business. Questions of security, consent, page structure and order button fall under the build. Legal notice, terms of sale and the privacy policy, on the other hand, have to describe your actual activity: they cannot be copied from a template. I am not a lawyer and I do not give legal advice.

Training in how to use the site is included. You come away knowing how to publish a page, replace a photograph and change a line of text. Administration of the site is yours, and the maintenance plan keeps up what has to be kept up: updates, backups, monitoring and monthly support.

The site rests on WordPress. Nothing is locked inside a proprietary tool, and both the files and the database are yours. Your site does not depend on a region, nor on a server you cannot move. The day you change provider, you leave with everything that has been built, without rebuilding a thing.

The first exchange is there to find out what your site needs: a takeover, an upgrade, regular upkeep, or nothing at all. It commits you to nothing.