Requirements

Requirements

What you need to run HOF without sadness.

minimum

	Minimum	Recommended
PHP	8.1	8.3+
WordPress	6.4	latest
WooCommerce (if filtering products)	8.0	latest
MySQL	5.7	8.0+
MariaDB	10.3	10.6+
Memory limit	128M	256M+

Note

We don't support PHP 7.x. PHP 7.4 has been EOL since November 2022. If your host is still on it, ask them why.

hosting notes

• Shared hosting: Works on most. The indexer is chunked specifically so cheap hosts don't choke.
• Object cache (Redis, Memcached): Strongly recommended. HOF respects WP transients.
• CDN / page cache: Compatible. Facet queries are designed to bypass full-page cache cleanly.
• Bedrock / Composer-managed WP: First-class. We ship a real composer.json.

browser support

HOF's frontend runtime targets modern evergreen browsers:

• Chrome / Edge: last 2 versions
• Firefox: last 2 versions
• Safari: 15+
• iOS Safari: 15+

If your audience is on IE11, HOF is not for you. (Neither is the year 2026.)