Does it even make sense to build my website idea on WordPress?

  • I am trying to build a database website dedicated to organizing and labeling/tagging fan art and the fan artists to make them easier to find.

    A hypothetical example:
    I have a poster that is fanart of Christian Bale’s Batman. He’s in a fight with The Joker and things have gotten bloody. The tags for the poster might be “Batman; NSFW; The Dark Knight; Action; Christian Bale”. The artist’s name is BetaAlpha22.
    I would want to tie the artwork to BetaAlpha22 in a CMS database and then have it dynamically appear in their profile as well as have the poster be searchable in a “Browse Art” page.

    It really doesn’t seem like WordPress is designed to handle thousands of tags. I built a demo site on WIX.com and it seems like a much more appropriate platform to build a database focused website on, but I also am struggling to wrap my head around Categories, Taxonomies, and Custom Post Types.

    If I learn the terminology and how to use WordPress, is it a suitable platform for what I’m trying to accomplish or am I better off building my site elsewhere?

    Thank you

    For reference, my website is FanArtPhonebook.com
    Here’s a pair of screenshots that show my databases with their placeholder data: https://imgur.com/a/CSt4MP2

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  • WordPress will work fine for this. It’s pretty much set up out-of-the-box to do exactly what you want it to.

    Using your requirements as an example, you could use ‘Posts’ as the artwork article, use ‘Categories’ for artists and categories, and then set ‘Tags’ for all of the extra information like ‘NSFW’, ‘Action’, ‘Christain Bale’, etc.

    You can go more complicated by setting up your own custom post types for this, but it’s not really needed unless you want to keep it separate from everything else.

    As far as the number of tags, WordPress will handle as many as you want. The only “restriction” for this is going to be your hosting account and how powerful it is.

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