What kind of site is this? I read an article not too long ago about Amazon.com's sitemap size and it wasn't much higher than 10,000 pages itself. I'm assuming with a project this massive you'd be utilizing a pretty heavy dedicated server and have quite the dev team to assemble it.
Thank you to everyone who replied to my question above.
I think now I am convinced that for a very large site Wordpress might not be the optimal solution, I believe if this is the case it might be better to use Joomla which will be superior in handling sites with large number of pages efficiently.
Personally, I disagree that Joomla is superior to Wordpress for running large sites. I still have faith that Wordpress can handle any kind, and any size of site. When you say "10,000 pages" obviously you're not talking about going into "pages" and creating 10,000 posts. Wordpress is some of the best web engineering available today - and if you're going to be running products, Wp-Ecommerce is right up there with the same state of the art engineering that can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it. Something like this is more so going to depend on your hosting and hardware rather than the back-end software you're running.
If you feel comfortable with Joomla, then go for it - but I definitely wouldn't pick it because its "better suited" to host large sites. Look at Wordpress Mu - the software behind Wordpress.com and its ability to run millions of pages and posts all over the web. I think Wordpress can definitely HANDLE a large site - but your ability and competence as a developer, and your hardware to run the dang thing are the things that really should come into play.
I know this is an old discussion but I have a client asking me whether Wordpress can be used to create & handle something similar to this site: http://bit.ly/AFaxd1
The site has close to 24,000 pages. It has many sub pages which I may need to have many sub categories for the Wordpress posts as well.
Can Wordpress handle this or Wordpress MU is a better choice? I'm also looking into Joomla as well but Wordpress is preferred for the user-friendliness.
Wordpress can handle pretty large sites just fine. 10k pages is an insanely large site though. People seem to love the thought that wordpress can't handle large sites for some reason. Perhaps it may have had trouble 5 years ago, but I think it's perfectly capable right now.
@robskiwarrior "By the power of greyskull!"... Best... evar
Yeah a Government website tends to have 1000's of redundant/outdated pages.
On the topic, I don't see why WordPress wouldn't be capable.
The main factor in using WordPress is how clever you are at customizing content input, and sorting the large number of pages/posts you will need (so it's not a huge mess).
Actually I think one of the recent updates to WordPress fixed that issue with custom permalinks, which would have been my main concern with large-scale attempts.
I am working on a wordpress Bible site This is an attempt to bring the KJV bible to wordpress format. Chapters Verses TOTAL 1189 31,103 Old Testament 929 23,145 New Testament 260 7958
In order for search to work right that would be 32,292 pages to search to each verse. Showing it on its own page, a subpage of that chapter and book.
Or 1189 pages if each page is a chapter at min.
In this case 32,000 pages. I plan on exporting it as a download for others.
Is that something Wordpress can handle smoothly or not?
also, what plugins would you suggest could make this possible in terms of managing pages and content.
thanks for your time.
elmalak
On another note, there is absolutely no way a website should be 10,000 pages unless it is showing 9,900 products, each with its own page.
/me faints
I think now I am convinced that for a very large site Wordpress might not be the optimal solution, I believe if this is the case it might be better to use Joomla which will be superior in handling sites with large number of pages efficiently.
http://www.103graphics.com/joomla-beats-wordpress/
hope you agree with me.
elmalak
If you feel comfortable with Joomla, then go for it - but I definitely wouldn't pick it because its "better suited" to host large sites. Look at Wordpress Mu - the software behind Wordpress.com and its ability to run millions of pages and posts all over the web. I think Wordpress can definitely HANDLE a large site - but your ability and competence as a developer, and your hardware to run the dang thing are the things that really should come into play.
Hope it all works out of you.
-Rudy
The site has close to 24,000 pages. It has many sub pages which I may need to have many sub categories for the Wordpress posts as well.
Can Wordpress handle this or Wordpress MU is a better choice?
I'm also looking into Joomla as well but Wordpress is preferred for the user-friendliness.
Thanks.
@robskiwarrior "By the power of greyskull!"... Best... evar
Now, I simply cannot believe a site would require 24,000 pages!
On the topic, I don't see why WordPress wouldn't be capable.
The main factor in using WordPress is how clever you are at customizing content input, and sorting the large number of pages/posts you will need (so it's not a huge mess).
Actually I think one of the recent updates to WordPress fixed that issue with custom permalinks, which would have been my main concern with large-scale attempts.
This is an attempt to bring the KJV bible to wordpress format.
Chapters Verses
TOTAL 1189 31,103
Old Testament 929 23,145
New Testament 260 7958
In order for search to work right that would be 32,292 pages to search to each verse. Showing it on its own page, a subpage of that chapter and book.
Or 1189 pages if each page is a chapter at min.
In this case 32,000 pages. I plan on exporting it as a download for others.
It is rather labor intensive at this point (: