WordPress as CMS for a big site?

  • Aloha,

    I have previously used the static page plugin to make WP behave as a CMS.

    WP works as my CMS on sites with approx. 20 pages, but how does it work for a site with 500, 1000 or more pages?

    Does any of you have some experience using WP as CMS for sites with a potentially crazy number of pages? Will it become impossible for me to administrate?

    Thanks, Mads

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

  • I dunno about other versions but in v2, there’s an option in Write Page that lets you choose a parent page. I’m only using about 20 pages myself, but I’m sure having them organized into sub and parent pages would make it easy to organize them.

    Thread Starter Mads Phikamphon

    (@madsphi)

    That sounds quite interesting. I have only used WP 1, but I’ll immediately forget everything about work and do a google on WP parent pages ??

    Thanks, Mads

    I’ve got a wordpress site that has about a hundred pages. Ordering them into child and parent pages makes a huge difference, believe me.

    Also, there’s a plugin to help administer pages called “Pages+”. You can find it at https://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/2006/01/24/pagesplus/

    Hope this helps. I’d be very interested to hear how WordPress handles your “crazy number of pages”.

    Regards
    Croila

    Thanks for the plug, Croila!

    Madsphi: the site we are working on at the moment is currently at about 2,500 pages (and 0 posts!). This is why i wrote the Pages+ plugin Croila mentions above.

    The main issues we’ve had with wordpress are;

    Friendly URLs using mod_rewrite
    WP creates 4 mod_rewrite rules for each page – so was causing the htaccess file to run to about 11megs. Crashed our hosts’ webserver, got in trouble! Resolved by using index.php/path/to/page/ syntax.

    Speed issues with certain core functions
    Some of the core WP functions are obviously not written for page-based sites. For example, wp_list_pages – if you want to get a page ‘tree’ of all pages below page X, this function gets the entire page tree and then filters it – so becomes very resource intensive.

    WP auto-formatting posts
    Wordpress automatically replaces newlines in posts with br tags – so if you put html code in the page content, you’ll end up with lots of whitespace on your code. Today I found a way of turning this off – I’ll plugin-ise it and post it when i get a second.

    A few lesser issues, but contact me through my site if you want to chat in more depth!

    Adam

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The topic ‘WordPress as CMS for a big site?’ is closed to new replies.