Big website on WordPress?

kenradar
(@kenradar)

7 years ago
Hello,

We are looking at using WP for our existing website (I run a nonprofit). We have 1,800 pages and add about 30 pages every month. The husband of a woman who works at my College wrote this about WP and our website size:

“most WordPress sites have fewer than 50 pages and the platform is easy to use and administer in that situation. As page count goes higher, administration becomes time consuming.”

Should I worry? He runs his own (small) web hosting service in my county.

Just trying to figure out what to do, as our current host more than doubled their prices at the end of last year (they didn’t tell anyone, and took down their forum at the same time). It’s not a WordPress site, and they have their own sitebuilder.

Thanks,

Ken
- This topic was modified 7 years ago by kenradar.

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Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

7 years ago

1,800 pages won’t be a problem, but you don’t have to take my word for it. 😉

Take a look at some of these other big sites using WordPress: https://wordpress.org/showcase/
Rafi
(@sojib123)

7 years ago
I run my website with WordPress which is 6700+ pages.
Check WordPress showcase to find out more – https://wordpress.org/showcase/
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Thread Starter kenradar
(@kenradar)

7 years ago

Thanks, James and BDlancerPro!

BDlancerPro – do you use shared hosting?

1-jah
(@1-jah)

7 years ago

From my knowledge a site of that size in content pages should run on either a WordPress Hosting via Godaddy etc or a dedicated server. If you’re on a shared hosting you might see your resource levels are getting maxed out.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

7 years ago

Most hosting providers offer services at various levels, making it very easy to “upgrade,” so start small and grow as needed.

We have some recommended hosting providers listed at https://wordpress.org/hosting/

TT74
(@tt74)

7 years ago

I stumbled upon this post and you @macmanx made me confused.

1,800 pages won’t be a problem, but you don’t have to take my word for it.

What about the 100 page rule? Brian Jackson wrote about it some time ago.
https://woorkup.com/beware-the-100-page-wordpress-limitation/

Ted

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

7 years ago

@tt74 As it says, highlighted towards the top of the article you linked to:

Update: This is no longer an issue and was updated with WordPress 4.2, Changeset 31730

WordPress 4.2 was released on April 13, 2015: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/powell/

TT74
(@tt74)

7 years ago

Maybe I should have read it more carefully. But still, that article is not the only place where I have encountered this 100 page belief.

And like the man said:

“most WordPress sites have fewer than 50 pages and the platform is easy to use and administer in that situation. As page count goes higher, administration becomes time consuming.”

This idea is still deeply stuck on many minds. You should advertise this 1000+ page possibility more.

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

7 years ago

Well, generally per https://wordpress.org/showcase/ I’d assume that the existence of sites like http://time.com/ and https://techcrunch.com/ on WordPress would be enough to suggest that the 100+ page limitation theory is no longer valid.