Questions about WP for sites with a lot of pages (not posts)

  • As a WordPress site grows, the number of pages (not posts) often grows as well. When dealing with a site that has a large number of pages (say, 100 or so), is there a better way of handling the listing of pages other than just having them appear under the “all pages” section?

    I know some sites have a page for each product being sold — and these “product pages” are not listed in the page section. Is there a way to place products on their own pages but under a “products” section without using a plug in like WP e-commerce?

    Finally, does anyone have any recommendations for sites and/or books that discuss WP for large sites?

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  • Thread Starter grannygamer

    (@grannygamer)

    Hello? Anyone there?

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    I think the reason you’ve not had any replies is that it is not particularly clear what you want to achieve. I’ll take a shot at what I think you mean though.

    You can make a page a child of another page. if you use a theme like twentyten your dropdown menu will refelect this.

    You can search the plugin repository to find plugins which may help you display a list of child page titles on their parent page, which may be useful – or you could use a plugin to add excerpt functionality to pages for a more flexible display.

    I would normally use posts to display types of products though which are categorised. If you wanted to convert your pages to posts to do this, you’ll find plugins to do that as well.

    And just to be awkward, I tend to use Pages for products rather than Posts as that seems a more logical choice to me. But as cubecolour says, you can create a page called something like Shop, then have a few child pages of Shop that act as departments with each “department” having it’s own products or even sub-departments.

    The eShop ecommerce plugin has a built-in folding page function to specifically handle these situations. So your customers aren’t confronted by huge, overwhelming, menus but can select a parent page and then drill down into the children and grandchildren pages.

    Sometimes WP just isn’t the right tool.

    Maybe a different CMS would serve you better.

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