WordPress Development UAE

Proper Arabic RTL in WordPress requires more than installing a translation plugin. It needs RTL-compatible theme selection or custom CSS overrides, Arabic-optimized fonts (Tajawal, Cairo, IBM Plex Arabic), bidirectional content management, and RTL-aware page builders. We build bilingual WordPress sites that display correctly in both languages without layout breaks.

Yoast or Rank Math configured for bilingual SEO, XML sitemap, hreflang for EN/AR, proper heading hierarchy, schema markup (LocalBusiness, Organization, BlogPosting), and Google Search Console integration. SEO is configured from day one — not added after the build as an afterthought.

WooCommerce with UAE payment gateways: Telr, PayTabs, and Tabby (Buy Now Pay Later). VAT-compliant invoicing plugin configured per UAE Federal Tax Authority requirements (5% VAT display and checkout). Arabic and English product pages. WooCommerce is the right choice for most UAE small-to-mid e-commerce builds under AED 50,000.

WordPress sites can be slow — or very fast. We optimize with WP Rocket or LiteSpeed Cache, WebP image conversion, CDN setup, database optimization, and dequeue unnecessary scripts. Most of our UAE WordPress builds achieve 90+ Google PageSpeed scores and LCP under 2.5s on mobile.

Wordfence or Sucuri firewall, Cloudflare or similar DDoS protection, regular automated backups, SSL, login hardening (2FA, CAPTCHA), and file permission hardening. UAE-specific: .ae domain configuration, UAE-hosted or regional CDN options for performance, and PDPL-aware data handling for sites collecting UAE resident data.

Unpatched WordPress sites break within 12–18 months as plugins and PHP versions diverge. We offer Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMC) covering monthly plugin and WordPress core updates, security monitoring, uptime monitoring, backup verification, and minor content changes. AMC costs typically 10–15% of the initial build per year.