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In case anyone is interested, we now are building a new in-house CMS in Rails to manage our site.

WordPress+WP-Cache2 still powers our domain, which receives about 15k unique visitors & 50k pageviews per day. The site now houses over 1000 pages, WAY beyond the limits of WP, and it’s quickly becoming the worst experience I can possibly imagine with a CMS.

We’re talking 30+ second pageload times in the admin. Any conditional template content dependent on page hierarchy causes an almost exponential increase in load time (fresh, non-cached).

On a dual P4 3GHz, 2GB RAM LAMP server, a total clear of cache will immediately crash the server under the load of fresh page requests. Server crashes follow in quick succession, load averaging around 75-80 until the new batch of popular pages are generated.

It sucks.

So I’ve hit a wall with WordPress; it is clearly not enterprise-grade software.

Our needs are not extravagant (we only need “static” page and date-based articles) but this CMS clearly will not work for us.

Goodbye, WordPress. It’s been (sorta) nice knowin’ ya.

Well, that’s the first positive sign I’ve seen relating to this issue.

Unfortunately, WP2.1 doesn’t improve anything with pages. With a site containing around 600 pages, it is still utterly unusable (even via localhosting).

Sigh.

Moderator, please move this thread to the How-To and Troubleshooting Forum.

For the love of Foo, please fix page management for once and for all. Quite frankly, I’m a bit shocked and upset that nothing made it into the 2.1 release.

I manage a very large-scale patient education site that receives over 10k visits per day. We are approaching 600 static pages (not including our daily “posts” in the magazine section of the site).

WordPress page management fails miserably: anything above 100 pages and php execution time becomes an issue. We’ve had to constantly update the hacked page management page in order to use it at all.

This has been an issue for over a YEAR now, not just months. There are at least three forum threads relating to this issue, with no resolution. What’s more, I can’t find even one ticket in Trac that refers to the problem, and because new ticket creation has been locked down, I can’t even notify anyone as to this very well-known issue that no one seems to want to fix.

Does WordPress *want* enterprise users? If so, stuff like this really should be fixed. I really like WordPress, but for us, this is a deal-breaker.