The Ideal WordPress PHP and Server Requirements

Servers power the internet by storing data files for websites, apps, and various digital assets. Any self-hosted WordPress website requires a server to store and use PHP files, media elements, databases, and content.

Server Requirements

For WordPress Themes to work as expected, you need some services running, configured correctly, and ready to host a WordPress site. If you have questions about the availability of these features, please contact your web hosting service's support.

PHP Requirements

These are suggested values, it may happen that you have limits smaller than this and everything works perfectly.

Your server will be more demanding, when editing very long pages, saving entries in WordPress with a lot of data and in the process of importing demos, where a lot of data is processed.

The following requirements were noted with excellence in overall performance:

PHP Memory Limit256M or greater
PHP Post Max Size1000M or greater
PHP Max Input Vars3000 or greater
Upload Max File Size300M or greater
Max Execution Time1200 or greater
Max Input Time600 or greater

Many issues you may run into such as white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content, theme not being saved and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits.

The solution is to increase PHP limits. You can do this yourself if you have the necessary skills, or contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase these limits to the minimum required.

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