Hello Kirby!
Not sure if you’ve been following the WP Engine / WordPress disaster that is blowing up.
Am now evaluating alternatives and will be giving Kirby a test.
I have an upcoming project which will have 200+ news posts, 200+ events and a directory of locations 300+
Wanted to check before I got any further that Kirby can handle that volume of content?
Also are there were any good resources or links that people have to guide a WordPress theme developer into the Kirby workflow.
Thanks!
Ian.
Hi Ian,
Welcome to our community!
Those numbers shouldn’t be a problem for Kirby. Your site will likely still be fast without additional optimization. If you can already foresee that those numbers will rise further, you can optimize by nesting your content, e.g. by year. This will reduce the lookup times and therefore improve the render performance of your site. This is a common question, so I’ve added a section to our guide about this.
We don’t have a guide for people coming from WordPress specifically. Our template syntax is pretty lean and you can actually start with a simple HTML template without any dynamic logic. Kirby will then serve this HTML unchanged and not manipulate it in unexpected ways. Our guide should help you with your first steps.
This one used to run on wordpress: https://minimalissimo.com
It’s now on Kirby. It has 16 years worth of content, easily 1000+ pages and 35000 images.
Same deal with this one: https://visualjournal.it
Used to run on wordpress, been running on kirby for a couple of years at this point. 12 years worth of content, easily 1500 pages and 20000 files.
I have an upcoming project which will have 200+ news posts, 200+ events and a directory of locations 300+
Unless you run on an incredibly shitty shared hosting with no resources you’ll have no issues and you’ll likely wonder why didn’t you switch to kirby earlier.
Hi Both,
Thanks for the insights. Will give Kirby a spin and see how I get on!
Thanks,
Ian.