Limitations of Word Press for category, page, post and perfromance issue

  • Hi,

    Day by day I becoming addicted to word press and want to use it in my various site for making a better web for the community.

    By now I have experimented a lot and tried out ton of plugins etc.By now I am quite familiar and experienced user of word press.

    My Question is that what is the limitation of word press in term of number categories it can handle, number of page/post it can handle smoothly.

    I am making a directory like application in which there are going to be around 25000 category / sub category and for every category there are going to be many post for every category.

    So in short can word press handle application which has 25000 category /sub category , 5000 pages, 25000 posts page.

    Any comments will be helpful and appreciable indeed.

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  • WordPress is merely a piece of software using MySQL as it’s database backend. The true limitations being imposed would only be limited to that of your web hosting environment.

    For example, an active website with the number of categories, pages and posts you mentioned in your above post would probably be overkill in a shared hosting or reseller hosting environment simply due to the number of constant queries to the MySQL database server.

    Using a caching method, such as the Super Cache Plugin would reduce constant querying, however, you’re still looking at quite a hit in a hosting environment where there are multiple or hundreds of other users on the exact same server your hosting your website on.

    If you’re running the above on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a Dedicated Server, then you’re only limitations would be the hardware that’s available to you.

    Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress can all be optimized, some more than others, however, in a shared environment (shared & reseller), you’re limited to optimizing WordPress as best you can since you’re not going to have access to any of the “root level” files such as my.cnf (for MySQL), php.ini (for PHP) or apache.conf (for Apache).

    So, in short, is it possible? Yes, though if it you plan on it being an active website, then you’re going to need more than a shared or reseller hosting environment. Possibly more than VPS depending on what level of VPS you choose.

    Thread Starter obiztek

    (@obiztek)

    Thanks Jon for your time and comments.

    I can see you point.Actually my requirements will be not that much.My concern is whether I can create multiple categories /subcategories ( no ore than 1000) in word press.

    Page/post wise there are going to be around 2000 post but what is most import important is the categories under which I want to put the relvant post for better classification and management.

    So to summarize the things my question is can word press handle 1000 categories/sub categories without any performance issue.

    Well, if every post (or every other post) has its own category… that somehow defies the whole idea of “classification and management”.

    Thread Starter obiztek

    (@obiztek)

    yes you are perfectly ok moshu.

    So it is possible to have every post to have its own category.

    In figures it is around 1000 post in 1000 categories ( mean 1 post in one categories.)

    What exactly I want to do is to use word press to make a directory style application.

    Just wanted to know whether so many categories will have any performance or other issues.

    Thanks
    Ajay
    OBizTek

    Having 1000 categories for 1000 posts = nonsense.
    Using WP for something it is not meant to be = nonsense.

    Think of the good old wisedom: the right tool for the right job.

    Use a directory script for a directory. Problem solved.

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