The WordPress alternative for Nigerian businesses — no developer, no hosting, from ₦10,000/month.
WordPress is free until you add hosting, a theme, six plugins, an SSL certificate and a developer who charges ₦200,000 and stops answering calls in month three. Creator by Wisely gives you the finished site in about five minutes, keeps it hosted and updated, and bills you in Naira on your own card.
No dollar card · Live in about 5 minutes · Built in Lagos
Creator vs WordPress, side by side
| Feature | WordPress (self-hosted) | Creator by Wisely |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Software is free; hosting is $5–$25/mo (₦8,000–₦40,000 at ₦1,600/$), plus premium theme and plugin renewals — typically ₦20,000–₦60,000/month all in. | From ₦10,000/month, everything included — hosting, SSL, updates, AI edits. |
| Upfront build cost | A Nigerian developer or agency typically charges ₦150,000–₦800,000 to build it, paid before you see a finished site. | ₦0. The AI builds it; you edit it in plain English. |
| Plan options | No tiers — you assemble your own stack and every piece renews separately. | Free (build & preview) · Starter ₦10,000 · Growth ₦30,000 · Pro ₦50,000 · Business ₦100,000 — all per month, all in Naira. |
| Card acceptance | Most quality hosts, themes and plugins bill in USD and need a dollar card. | Naira card, bank transfer, OPay or USSD. One charge, in Naira, from one company. |
| Setup time | Days to weeks — install, theme, plugins, security, cache, payment gateway, then content. | About 5 minutes from description to live site. |
| Hosting & maintenance | Yours to manage: core and plugin updates, backups, malware cleanups, renewals, downtime. | Fully managed. Nothing to update, back up or renew. |
| Making a change | Call your developer and wait, or learn the admin yourself. | Type what you want changed and the AI edits the page. |
| Custom domain | Bought and renewed separately, usually in dollars. | From ₦30,000/month (Growth) — point any .com, .com.ng or .ng you already own. |
| Selling online | WooCommerce plus a gateway plugin, configured and maintained by you. | Store, cart, delivery address and checkout built in, with Paystack or Flutterwave from Growth up. |
| If it breaks | Your problem, at 11pm, on a Sunday. | Ours. Lagos-based support, Nigerian working hours. |
WordPress pricing is converted at ₦1,600/$ and rounded down. Rates move — check the current figure before relying on it.
Why Nigerian business owners are switching from WordPress to Creator
One Naira bill replaces five dollar bills
A working WordPress site is rarely one purchase. It is hosting in dollars, a premium theme in dollars, a page builder licence in dollars, a backup plugin in dollars and an SSL renewal somewhere in the middle — each on its own renewal date, each needing a funded dollar card, each capable of taking your site down on its own. Creator collapses that into a single Naira subscription from ₦10,000 a month, charged to a Nigerian card, with hosting, SSL and updates already inside the price. There is one date to remember and one amount to budget.
You stop paying the exchange rate twice
Dollar-denominated hosting and plugin renewals rise in Naira terms without anyone sending you a price-increase email — the invoice is the same, your bank statement is not. Worse, the developer you hired to assemble it all quoted in Naira but priced their time against dollar tooling, so the rebuild quote in year two is higher again. A Naira-priced subscription ends that exposure completely: ₦10,000 is ₦10,000 next month and the month after.
The monthly plan replaces a six-figure upfront quote
The real barrier for most Nigerian businesses was never the technology — it was being asked for ₦250,000 before a single page exists, then being unable to change a phone number without calling the person who built it. Creator inverts that: build the entire site for free, look at the finished thing, and only start paying ₦10,000 a month when you are ready to publish. When you grow, ₦30,000 adds your own domain and your own Paystack account, ₦50,000 gives you five sites, and ₦100,000 covers twelve. Every change after that is a sentence you type yourself.
Switching from WordPress: your questions
- Can I start on ₦10,000 and upgrade when the business grows?
- That is exactly how it is designed. Starter at ₦10,000/month publishes one site on a free Creator subdomain with 10,000 monthly visits included. When you need your own domain and your own Paystack or Flutterwave account, move to Growth at ₦30,000/month — the upgrade applies immediately and your site stays live throughout.
- How secure is a Creator site compared with a WordPress install?
- There are no plugins to go out of date, which removes the way most Nigerian WordPress sites actually get compromised. Sites are served over HTTPS with automatically renewed SSL, hosting is patched by us, and subscription payments are handled by licensed Nigerian processors — Creator never stores your card details. You will not be cleaning malware out of a theme at midnight.
- I already have a .com.ng domain. Can I point it here without moving it?
- Yes. Add the domain in your dashboard on Growth or above, copy the two DNS records it shows you, and paste them into your registrar’s control panel — Whogohost, Namecheap, GoDaddy, wherever it lives. Your domain stays where it is, SSL is issued automatically, and your old site keeps running until the records switch over.
- How does billing work — will I be charged in dollars?
- Never. You are charged in Naira on a recurring monthly cycle, using a Naira debit card, bank transfer, OPay or USSD, and you can cancel or change plan from the dashboard at any time. Receipts show the Naira amount, which is what your accountant needs. Paying yearly gets you two months free, still in Naira.
No developer. No hosting panel. No dollar card.
Describe your business and watch the site build itself. Publishing starts at ₦10,000 a month, in Naira.
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