WordPress with thousands of authors - Developers, what is your take on this?

Dopious

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So, I have a project where there is going to be thousands of authors in a WordPress site, thereby a shitload of articles.

I`m thinking of using a CPT with custom fields instead of regular blog posts in WordPress with Meta Box to use their store data in dedicated tables for custom post types or custom content models to boost performance for large projects function as it should be faster for a shitload of posts made.

I need your input on this move since I have never needed to think before of a shitload of posts and authors in that way.

Any thoughts are welcome if you done something similar in WordPress and have real experience with this.
 
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Never used cpt before, but I am thinking on something else: Hosting the database on a dedicated server. That should help the site's performance a lot.
 
TheMarquis said:
Never used cpt before, but I am thinking on something else: Hosting the database on a dedicated server. That should help the site's performance a lot.
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Yes, that is a second performance to be done after my decision on WordPress own meta fields or a separete storage of all data stored in it`s own table, both things can be combined.
 
Its going to be AI content? Plus planning on brand new domain?
 
Dopious said:
No AI, but new domain. It will not start with thousands of authors.
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For such project, dont go with brand new domain. Aged domain can yield better results. Just my personal thought.

But if you planning on going big brand thing, go for new one.
 
What are you actually trying to do here? Your concern seems to be having thousands of articles but that's not a lot of records in a database. There used to be WP Multitenant plugin that allowed you to use a single WP install and have multiple wp-config setups.
 
NulledCode said:
What are you actually trying to do here? Your concern seems to be having thousands of articles but that's not a lot of records in a database.
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Performance, handling authors, posts and queries when it becomes big.
 
My recommendation is to avoid using WP all around for anything that needs a minimum of performance. Check payloadcms or strapi. Even I would recommend Drupal over WP as it uses a way better structured database system by default.
 
SirLouen said:
My recommendation is to avoid using WP all around for anything that needs a minimum of performance. Check payloadcms or strapi. Even I would recommend Drupal over WP as it uses a way better structured database system by default.
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Yes, if I were a real coder I might have going down that route.
 
Dopious said:
So, I have a project where there is going to be thousands of authors in a WordPress site, thereby a shitload of articles.

I`m thinking of using a CPT with custom fields instead of regular blog posts in WordPress with Meta Box to use their store data in dedicated tables for custom post types or custom content models to boost performance for large projects function as it should be faster for a shitload of posts made.

I need your input on this move since I have never needed to think before of a shitload of posts and authors in that way.

Any thoughts are welcome if you done something similar in WordPress and have real experience with this.
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Using CPT with custom fields and dedicated tables is definitely a smart move for performance in large-scale projects. It keeps the database organized and faster."
 
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