Plugins for WordPress as a large scale CMS

  • I’ve got an upcoming client at the start of the year that needs a new website. The old design stinks and isn’t mobile friendly. This website has a minimum of 100 pages that I’ll be creating, though I am sure there are more hidden I haven’t found. Because of this, I suggested Joomla because I believe it is a stronger CMS for large scale websites. The boss man said no, they’ve always built websites in WordPress and he refuses to learn a new one. I’m not here to start an argument over which CMS is better or to bad mouth my boss. All I want to know are some suggestions for good plugins to beef up WordPress as a CMS. Below I have listed out some of my major problems with WordPress I have had over the past year developing websites with it.

    • I hate the drag and drop menu system for wordpress. I find it slow and very picky with nesting menu items inside others
    • I want to be able to sort the pages into categories better. For example if I am in the about us section, I want a drop down to select ‘about us’ and it only shows me pages in the about us section.
    • WordPress seems to run slower then Joomla, especially when I open multiple tabs. Is there anything I can do without changing the server to make WordPress run smoother?
    • I hate that WordPress automatically adds <p> tags instead of just wrapping everything in <p> tags. This is a compound issue because in Joomla when I look at the source code, it is color coordinated much like Dreamweaver. When I move source code from WordPress to Dreamweaver, I can’t apply source formatting and everything is a mess. Is there a plugin that automatically adds the <p> tags instead of the way WordPress does it now?
    • Are there are any general plugins I should use when making a large scale WordPress site?

    Thanks for the help guys! And let me know if this should be in a different subforum.

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  • Here are some suggestions:

    I hate the drag and drop menu system for wordpress. I find it slow and very picky with nesting menu items inside others

    You don’t have to use a custom menu, you could just use wp_list_pages()

    I want to be able to sort the pages into categories better. For example if I am in the about us section, I want a drop down to select ‘about us’ and it only shows me pages in the about us section.

    You can use conditional statements in your template file.

    WordPress seems to run slower then Joomla, especially when I open multiple tabs. Is there anything I can do without changing the server to make WordPress run smoother?

    Do a Google search for “how to speed up WordPress and you’ll find lots of advice.

    I hate that WordPress automatically adds <p> tags instead of just wrapping everything in <p> tags. This is a compound issue because in Joomla when I look at the source code, it is color coordinated much like Dreamweaver. When I move source code from WordPress to Dreamweaver, I can’t apply source formatting and everything is a mess. Is there a plugin that automatically adds the <p> tags instead of the way WordPress does it now?

    No idea what this means. WordPress inserts <p> where and when needed to create valid HTML.

    Are there are any general plugins I should use when making a large scale WordPress site?

    WordPress is a great CMS out of the box, but then again I’m a bit biased, I’ve been using it since 2004 and never played around with Joomla. ??

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