Performance related question

It also depends how your authors-pages must look like. If it’s just one text and a list of their books; then an attritbute is the way to go. If you want the author-page to be flexible with different content (events, video’s, order of all that stuff), then go for custom post type. This option is a bit more work then the other; but also better for SEO.

In terms of performance both are the same with that kind of numbers, certainly when caching is setup well.
Going for a custom post types, then you can build query blocks and show authors of the month; or other filters on authors.

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply, I am on a dedicated server with server and page caching and there are no speed issues right now while I test the store.

I was close to custom post type for the authors, just want to make it sure that would be a propriate thing to do.

Thanks

You’re welcome

Hi @sicknick

Thanks for reaching out!

My question: what is the best way to relate the books with the authors? A custom taxonomy (hierarchical or not)? A product attribute? A custom field maybe or a new custom post type for the authors? Something else?

Can you please share with us your site goals or what are you trying to achieve on your site so that we could point you in the right direction?

If a screenshot would be helpful, I’d recommend using https://snipboard.io or https://skitch.com/. You can share the direct link to the image as a response to this topic.