WordPress not man enough...has anybody got experience working with Pryo CMS?
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Hey folks
I'm working with a small team on putting together a new niche accommodation / holiday search portal here in the UK. We are most likely using PHP / MySQL technology for the site - I am a huge fan of WordPress but not sure its quite man enough for the task (many option search over 10,000 plus properties).
We can't afford to pay for a bespoke development, so off-the shelf CMS is the most likely route for release 1, and from what I've been reading Pyro CMS seems a good open source choice... https://www.pyrocms.com/
Has anybody come across this, or know how good it is with regards to on-site SEO?
Or maybe WordPress is up to the task?
If not, what are other good open source options for sites focused around a search function?
Cheers
Simon
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Thanks for your response Tim... we are very close to securing a PHP dev who is expert in CodeIgniter which PyroCMS is based on, but I hadn't really thought about Drupal - will give that some serious consideration!
Thanks
Simon
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I'm going to be biased on this as it's all we work in, but have a look at Drupal - open source, enterprise CMS. Great support and modules for SEO (provided it's configured correctly). If you're using internal search then it will combine with enterprise search applications like Apache Solr.
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