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Theme Requirements

Below are the recommended configuration and settings under which the theme will work perfectly and will avoid errors like a blank screen, theme installation error or, demo content import fails. You can configure the changes yourself or you can contact and ask your hosting provider to them up for you.

Of course, these are not the absolute values, as the performance of the theme varies and depends on hosting, server configuration, bandwidth etc.

Server Requirements –

  1. WordPress 4.0 or later
  2. Apache or Nginx
  3. PHP version 5.4 or greater
  4. MySQL version 5.5 or greater
  5. The mod_rewrite Apache module must be enabled

WordPress recommends PHP version 7.0, but we still recommend PHP version 5.5 to maintain backward compatibility with many plugins.

You can read more about PHP memory in WordPress Codex.

PHP Requirements –

  1. upload_max_filesize 40M
  2. post_max_size 128M
  3. max_execution_time 180 (Execution time should be increased if the server is slow and unable to import data.)
  4. max_input_vars 5000
  5. php.ini memory_limit: 64MB

You can check your PHP settings by installing WordPress php_info() plugin. Also, you can ask your hosting provider if you don’t have enough knowledge.

Hosting Requirements –

Hosting is one of the major factor responsible for the performance of the WordPress. If WordPress is working perfectly on your hosting space, the theme should too.

Performance depends on the type of hosting and type of hosting depends on the number of visitors you’re getting on your website.

Cheap Shared Hosting –

Generally, this kind of hosting has a limitation of number of visitors to 1-2000 unique users per day. If you’re not getting much traffic and not using a lot of plugins, then you can choose this hosting for you business. You website might get down in case of heavy traffic.

VPS Hosting –

Range for number of visitors varies from 2000-6000 unique users per day for this type of hosting. More RAM your server has, more the performance you will get. VPS can handle traffic really well if configured properly with enough RAM and a swap partition.

Dedicated Server –

It is one of the most efficient and powerful solution recommended for a well running business. It has a capability of handling over 6000 unique visitors per day and handling the traffic way ahead of the rest of the hosting types.