What is too much in Wordpress?

[Karl1]

Hi folks,
I've this question qoing around in my mind:
What is too much in wordpress? Is there a page limit?
Do you think is preferable to have more posts or pages? If I use more pages, does it influences in the preformance of the web?

What do you think

[PressedIn]

There's no such thing as "too much" WordPress :).

That said, using either pages or posts to display content is completely up to you and how you're building your website. All pages and posts that you create are stored to the same database, so performance-wise, it doesn't make a difference which ones you use really.

If you're looking to increase performance, I would start with a caching tool of some sort, such as Quick Cache or W3 Total Cache. They both work extremely well and allow you to speed up your installation considerably. That said, you can also use a CDN (Content Delivery Network), back-end caching (such as xCache, APC or Varnish) and so forth to speed things up even more.

With PageSpeed being used to calculate your ranking with Google, the faster the page load, the better.

[Karl1]

thanks Pressedin,
I know how to optimize a WP blog, my doubt was wether was preferable to have posts or pages, or if there were some differences

[PressedIn]

At the root of it, there's really no difference between pages & posts. They're both pulled from the database, so from a performance aspect, neither pages or posts should be a detriment in their stock form. Obviously if you build on-top of the software and add functionality to either pages or posts, there may be a performance hit, but nothing significant.

[Jeffro]

The way WordPress has been built, Pages are geared more for static content which doesn't update too often while posts are more dynamic. One of the biggest differences between Posts and Pages are that Pages can not be categorized nor can they be tagged making them more difficult to find if you have a lot of them. You are not forced to use Pages as static content holders but I think it's better to work with the grain instead of against it regarding which to use.

With regards to performance, I'm sure there has been a thread or two dedicated to the topic somewhere on the WP Hackers mailing list.