Title: Scalability
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Scalability

 *  [managenet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/managenet/)
 * (@managenet)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scalability/)
 * Hi All,
 * WP Catalogue Pro looks like it could be a good solution for us – what is the 
   practical limit on scalability in terms of number of items? Would it be able 
   to handle 10,000 items effectively? (assume high performance, dedicated server)
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-catalogue/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-catalogue/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Maeve Lander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enigmaweb/)
 * (@enigmaweb)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scalability/#post-4685487)
 * Hey Managenet, thanks for considering WP Catalogue for your project.
 * It should be totally fine with lots of products. WP Catalogue is built on a simple
   custom post type, so basically if normal ‘Posts’ could do it, then the WP Catalogue
   can do it. It works in very much the same way. Does that help answer your question?
 * Cheers,
    Maeve
 *  Thread Starter [managenet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/managenet/)
 * (@managenet)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scalability/#post-4685595)
 * Hi Maeve,
 * Thanks for the reply – yes, makes sense. My only concern in using the standard
   WP database structure would be the ease of import/export for a large catalogue.
   Having a separate database might be more manageable for us. But I will definitely
   give WP Catalogue a more serious look, as I generally like the layout. I wish
   it was more easily searchable and filterable, like a more typical catalogue site(
   search term produces filtered results in same layout – similar to result if ticking
   a particular category)
 * In terms of import/export – do you have provision and standard template example
   of import via CSV vs. having to create XML file?
 * Thanks!

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