Can WordPress realistically handle a site with 500 ‘pages’?

There are some issues in WP permalinks implementation that introduce scaling issues for large amount of pages and some specific permalink configurations, see Category in Permalinks Considered Harmful.

Other than that it is business as usual – use decent hosting, keep plugins setup efficient, add caching and you will be fine.

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