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I did find Cimy User Extra Fields and wonder if this can help me get the business type categories. If it can, how would I then call those as filterable fields?

I wonder if I posted in the wrong place. Maybe this should go in “How-To and Troubleshooting”. So, added modlook tag.

I’d love to know an answer to this if you get one. This would be huge.

Thanks guys. Problem is the client wants one of their people to work with me to develop the site and maintain it later. She’s smart and can learn whatever. Problem is the search will only get me so far because I’ll have at least tens, if not hundreds of pages with very similar or identical names under parent pages. For instance, I may have 50 named “MSDS” under 50 different parents. That’s where a hierarchy would be faster, and that plug-in may be great, but may break with an update to WP if it’s not updated.

I’m really on the fence here as DP seems like it will be more useful long-term if she can learn it (and me). But, in the short-term I know WP will be faster to get up-and-running. I think I’ll install Drupal and start with it to see what I think. If I can’t get rolling in a matter of a couple days I’ll have to come back to WP.

Thanks for all the advice.

Not a menu. In the admin dashboard when you view pages.

Scott: yes, like that. But, that plugin doesn’t look widely-used (6 reviews) and may be outdated (only verified to work to 3.2.1).

What limits might I face using WordPress for a large(ish) company site? (maybe this is a better way to ask the questions?)

When you look at the page listings in the WP view, you see about 10 pages and have to click to see more pages. I want a tree like you’d see in a file browser on a computer (like Finder or Explorer).

I’ve done child pages like you say, but I’m more concerned that you can’t collapse parents so you can see all the site on a single page. You have to click to go 10 or whatever pages at a time or search for the one you want. Or am I missing something that should be obvious?

If it would be best, I can also set up my own web server, but it would be off my home connection, which is basic DSL.

Thanks. I hadn’t really even thought about the fact that there were premium plug-ins. Don’t know how that escaped me. Great suggestion too. Thanks for your help.

Dan J.

Sounds about right. If people are responsive, I can see a few weeks being realistic, but most times there’s a week waiting on approval or a response. Been there.

Thanks for all the advice everyone. Extremely helpful.

Thanks everyone.

Realistically, what timeline would you give to a customer? I have four sites in the queue if I want them, but three have to be done and turned over by January. Lots to learn, but That shouldn’t be a problem in any way if they get me content and I keep reading, correct?

Thanks for the links. I’ll be looking at those plug-ins.

I fear marking as solved may have shot me in the foot, but here goes. Would I be better off running a web server on my local machine? If so, I just have to enable Apache, install PHP and MySQL and then load up WP, right? I’m sure it’s a big more complicated, but I’m pretty sure I can find instructions. This would be the fastest way to develop, right? No more waiting for page refreshes, correct?

Andrew,
Would you mind, if you have the time, stepping me through this briefly. I’ve tried this three different ways and none seem to work as I’d like. When you say subdomain, you mean something like subdomain.mydomain.com, right? I set that up, but redirected to another IP thinking that would solve having to remember an IP address, but would also keep me from having to migtrate a finished site. All I’d have to do is update DNS and edit the PHP info, changing all entries for subdomain.mydomain.com to customerdomain.com.

Sorry, but I’m missing something here and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

This has been very helpful. I have a lot to learn. Thank you for pointing out specifics to get me focused.

Tons of help there, thanks. One follow-up.

2) You say develop on my subdomain and I am, but that’s the redirect that isn’t working. Or I am misunderstanding what you’re saying? Maybe you’re saying install another instance of WP on my domain and move it later? Is that better?

I’ll really dig into the templates and see what happens. Most of these sites will be pretty basic, so an off-the-shelf template with gui modifications should do 90% of what I need. I need to know why it works though for troubleshooting and moving forward.

Thanks again.