[mmsimanga]

I see you decided on Wordpress, if you were going to use a CMS I think Drupal 7 would have been a good choice. Drupal has concept of entities and views. An entity as the name suggests is essentially a table and you can add all sorts of different fields to it. From simple text and number fields to images and fields that lookup other entities thus creating relationships between entities. Views is another construct that lets you choose how to display the entities. As a list of as a table a two possible views. Most of this can be done in Drupal 7 without writing code. I say Drupal 7 because you mentioned Wordpress. Drupal 8 and above is more of a developer framework and requires knowledge of Composer. Backdrop [0] is fork of Drupal 7.

[0]https://backdropcms.org/

[dmje]

WordPress has custom post types, taxonomies and metafields so is very capable of dealing with complex relationships if you need it to. What's challenging is going from simple columnar data such as CSV to something complex and relational.

We chose WordPress because of its ubiquity and power - plus it's insanely easy to host and use as a non technical editor, which (last time I looked) can't be said of Drupal.

[justusthane]

This is how ExpressionEngine is structured as well, except they're called channels and templates. I really enjoyed working with EE, although coding is definitely required - you basically have to build your site from the ground up. No themes included.

That being said, I found it much, much easier to develop than WordPress.