I'm in the process of converting this 1.7+ million page HTML site to Wordpress. I first pulled everything into a Laravel 4 framework simply because I know the framework much better than Wordpress. Then I set out to build a custom plugin in Wordpress that basically is a tool to manage 1.7 million articles and Wordpress out of the box features for managing so many articles is impossible.

Q: Does anyone have advice on how you would manage a million articles? Sorting through the list of articles for example from either an Admin or End-user becomes tedious and daunting and slow depending on how the data is retrieved.