Server Requirements
Before you install Leverage, confirm your hosting environment is ready. A correctly configured server keeps your site fast, stable, and free of the errors that show up when resources run low.
If you are not sure which versions or limits your hosting uses, ask your web host’s support team. They can check in seconds and adjust them for you if needed.
Minimum requirements
Section titled “Minimum requirements”For Leverage to work as expected, your server should meet at least the following baseline:
| Service | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 5.0 or higher | Latest stable release |
| PHP | 7.0 or higher | 7.4 or 8.x |
| Database | MySQL 5.0+ or MariaDB | Latest stable release |
Recommended PHP limits
Section titled “Recommended PHP limits”The values below are recommendations, not hard rules — you may have lower limits and still have everything work perfectly. Your server works hardest when you edit very long pages, save entries with a lot of data, or import demo content, since all of that processes a large amount of data at once.
These settings deliver excellent overall performance:
| PHP setting | Recommended value |
|---|---|
memory_limit | 256M or greater |
max_execution_time | 300 or greater |
upload_max_filesize | 64M or greater |
post_max_size | 64M or greater |
max_input_vars | 3000 or greater |
Troubleshooting low limits
Section titled “Troubleshooting low limits”Many of the most common issues trace back to a single cause: PHP limits set too low. If you run into any of these, low limits are the usual suspect:
- A white screen (the “white screen of death”)
- Demo content that fails or stops partway through importing
- Empty or missing page content
- Theme settings that will not save
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”Once your server meets these requirements, you are ready to install the theme.