Does WordPress Offer Anything for Static Page Web Store?

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  pone1 · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 5:45 am

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  Say there is a small web store with approximately 30 thousand static pages, and no dynamic pages. Does WordPress have any features that would help the site to version different versions of the site?

  I realize most people would make the site dynamic and deliver pages through PHP or similar dynamic page technologies. For whatever reason – probably security – the subject site is going to stay all static pages.

  If the site were being maintained on a Linux server through the command line or ftp, then each version of the web site would be uploaded as a single archive file that would then be expanded to a file tree. The different versions might sit as file system peer folders under a common node, and the current version of the site might become a symbolic link to the file system folder that contains the version of the web site that needs to be in production.

  While all of that activity can be done from the command line, it is tedious, and it is very error prone. What would be nice would be some GUI interfaces to upload new versions, and then some GUI interfaces to point to the versions that you want to put into production. That would minimize the amount of command line work needed, and it would minimize chances of errors.

  Does WordPress have anything to offer such a site? In reviewing the features, it looks primarily oriented towards blogs and static page construction, but doesn’t look like it was built to handle 30K page static sites and help to swap out different versions of the entire 30K page web tree.

  If WordPress is not the right solution for a large static web store, can someone recommend a site that is better suited for helping with versioning of such a site and the day to day production activities of putting new versions into production?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 6:34 am

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  You want to be looking at WordPress.ORG, not wordpress.COM for this kind of site.

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  pone1 · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 6:49 am

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  The question is what *FEATURES* would the WordPress software have for such a site?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 7:05 am

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  The *FEATURES* differ between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. What you want is not possible on WordPress.com, so I have told you where to find out more.