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Hosting Compatibility ​

Themeisle themes and plugins are built to run on standard WordPress hosting, so they work with the vast majority of providers. This article explains what our products need from a host and lists a few providers that meet those requirements well.

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Our products work with most hosting providers ​

Our themes and plugins are built on standard WordPress APIs, so they run on any host that runs WordPress properly — shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting, VPS, and cloud platforms alike. You do not need a specific host to use them.

A few products depend on a server feature that not every host offers or enables by default. When that is the case, the requirement is documented in that product's own documentation. For example, WP Landing Kit needs a host that lets you add alias or addon domains, which is covered in Verified hosting compatibility. If a product's documentation does not mention a hosting requirement, it has none beyond what WordPress itself needs.

What to look for in a host ​

These are the server-side conditions that our products — and WordPress in general — depend on most often:

  • A currently supported PHP version. Our products need PHP 7.4 as a minimum, and newer versions are faster and more secure. See How to verify your PHP version.
  • Enough PHP memory. A memory_limit of 256 MB or higher prevents timeouts and 500 Internal Server Error messages during heavy tasks such as importing a starter site, optimizing images in bulk, or generating large batches of pages.
  • Reliable background tasks. Scheduled work — feed imports, social sharing, cache preloading, image optimization — runs through WP-Cron. Hosts that disable WP-Cron or cut off long-running requests will interrupt it. See How to set up a real cron job in WordPress.
  • The usual PHP extensions enabled. The php-xml extension (including the DOM, SimpleXML, XMLReader, and XMLWriter modules) is needed for imports such as Neve's Starter Sites, and image plugins need an image library like GD or Imagick.
  • A publicly reachable site. Services that connect to your site from the outside, such as Optimole fetching your images, cannot reach a local install or a site locked behind a password or firewall rule.
  • Server-level caching you can control. Many hosts cache pages themselves. You need to be able to clear or bypass that cache, otherwise it can conflict with a caching plugin and keep serving outdated pages.

💡 Tip: The most useful thing a host can offer is a support team that will change server settings for you on request — PHP version, memory limit, extensions, cron. Staging sites and automatic backups are also worth having before you install or update anything.

Hosting providers we recommend ​

Any host that meets the conditions above will work. If you are choosing a new one, these providers are known to run our products well:

📝 Note: This list contains examples, not requirements. Our products are not limited to these hosts, and a provider that is not listed here will almost certainly work fine.

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