Any Wordpress gurus out there

[scootermaster]

but I thought I'd ask here....


I'm thinking about starting a site, and thinking about having WP power it. The problem is, it'll have somewhere around 20,000+ "static" pages, which I could used WP Pages for. There's a bug where, apparently, mod_rewrite (?) rules are written to the dbase, all on one line, and blah blah blah.

The point is, there's a bug for lots of pages in WP, but I think it's been fixed. And I looked at the database structure, and it doesn't look to be too hard to write a PHP script that will inject the information to make the pages automatically, right into the dbase (now way I'd manually enter in 20k pages myself!)

Anyway, just wondering if any of you had any experience with WP, or had any other grand ideas for what would work for something like this.

I'd also like to have some integration with a forum, which WP can do, and a wiki, which apparently WP can't, or doesn't do well. Any thoughts on that? I used Tikiwiki a looooong time ago (5 years) and I remember it being just so bloated and slow. I wonder if its' any better now?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
around 20,000+ "static" pages

Are you sure Wordpress is the correct tool for this? What kind of website is this?

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: scootermaster
around 20,000+ "static" pages

Are you sure Wordpress is the correct tool for this? What kind of website is this?

I have absolutely no clue if it is or not.

It's a sports related website. So the pages will be automatically generated, one per player, and won't change much.

I would like, as I mentioned, to have that part -- the static content area -- a blog, where articles are posted, a forum for discussion and a wiki (where people can add information about each player, etc).

Wordpress can do all of this, with the exception of the Wiki, but I'm not sure it's the best tool. IT's just the one I know the best.

Any ideas?

 

[George P Burdell]

While Wordpress is capable of doing all this, it's not the best tool for the job. There are two ways you can go about this:

1. Use a Content Management System like Drupal or Joomla.

2. Have separate code running the blog (Wordpress), forum (bbPress), wiki (MediaWiki) and put it all together with homemade code.

I prefer #2 because it gives you more control, but #1 is faster and easier. Given the right developer, you'll be amazed at the stuff people do with Drupal.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
While Wordpress is capable of doing all this, it's not the best tool for the job. There are two ways you can go about this:

1. Use a Content Management System like Drupal or Joomla.

2. Have separate code running the blog (Wordpress), forum (bbPress), wiki (MediaWiki) and put it all together with homemade code.

I prefer #2 because it gives you more control, but #1 is faster and easier. Given the right developer, you'll be amazed at the stuff people do with Drupal.

There are integration tools already for forum and to a lesser degree wiki for Wordpress. Basically just stuff to integrate the logins (which is ironic, since the Wordpress portion wouldn't really need logins anyway, since no one is going to be posting to that section but me). The bigger issue is look-and-feel. I don't know enough about CSS and graphic design (nor do I care to) to get the site to have a cohesive feel to it.

The WP forum solutions are actually quite slick; you can go with a plugin that has a ton of features that fits fight inside WP, or you can go with an external one that can be hacked to work with WP. Either solution would work for me. But as I said, no real wiki.

I'll look into Drupal first, and then Joomla. I need to see how they handle "static" pages, and how the search engine works and all (it would be nice to have some sort of integrated search, likely minus the forum).

Anyway, thanks for the hints! Now to find a designer who's crazy about the NBA....

Any other thoughts?

 

[Injury]

Wordpress would be a bad choice to use as forums because for starters it's very resource intensive and a few dozen people on at once can bring your server tumbling. Ideally you can set wordpress to cache pages but that would make updates to "threads" ridiculously slow.

Aside from that, in order to make it more forum like you'd either have to find a theme already created for this or hack one together yourself, and that kills the original problem of not wanting to do the design.

There may actually be a phpbb/wordpress combo out there that runs from the same user database, perhaps you could check in to that. Google "phpbb" "wordpress" and "integration"

edit: I've never used Drupal like another poster suggested but definitely worth looking in to. Also check out e107. It's kinda juvenile, but maybe it's what you are looking for.