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I’m developing a site for a historical museum type place with about 15,000 historical items that the client wants to be easily searched through (so, for example, if someone wants to see all of the pictures of main street, they can just search for main street, and all possible results will be easily accessible).

Would the best route be to just make each item its own blog post (and obviously work with some custom fields)? Would there be a performance problem when searching this many posts?

Thanks for the help. I’m a CodeIgniter fanboy who just made the leap to EE and so far I’m blown away.

Hi there,

A few ways you could do this. The simplest being as you said a custom field that could hold ‘keywords’ that describe the entries. You could also use a multi-select field as well.

Another great way of doing this would be to use a tagging system and that is where the fantastic Tag module from Solspace would come in really handy. I have this myself on a site and it is really easy to use and really powerful.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

Sounds good to me. Thanks Mark.

No problem at all. If you need any more help then just holler across. I’m usually around here somewhere! 😉

Hope it all goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark