jon

This is almost certainly a Theme issue. Since you are using a commercial theme (Polyon) not in the WordPress Theme directory, you need to talk to the support folks for the Theme. Part of what you paid for the Theme pays for that support.

Paid Themes are not supported on the wordpress.org forums, as explained here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products
The main reason for that is that source code is not available for viewing and running, which is what is required to help you.

I’m retired so I understand your budget woes. There are some creative ways around this though. Nearly 10 years ago, when I first started developing sites with WordPress, I simply used a directory on the live web site for my development. Later, I used subdomains. Along the way, I used Add-on Domains and even extra hosting accounts on Reseller accounts that were being used for live sites.

All of those solutions were free.

Today, I use a VPS I got last summer for just over $2 per month U.S. dollars. Installed Ubuntu on it and love the full control that I have.

That replaced an otherwise useless old computer that I “re-purposed” as a Ubuntu-based web server on my office floor, plugged into my home router. That, too, was free.

I used XAMPP for some years, but found that I was getting caught by Permissions issues, since XAMPP on Windows does not reflect Linux Permissions.

My current VPS gets around using localhost, and not having an Internet-accessible domain name.

On a personal note, I found that it is a lot less trouble to do my development on a web hosting environment that matches, as closely as possible, the production environment. Especially operating system.

PHP versions, MySQL versions, IIS vs Apache, Linux vs Windows, plus PHP and Apache settings. The closer they match, the less chance of errors during the move from development to production.

You will get a better response if you close this thread as Resolved and re-post your question where the Wordfence Support people will see it:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence

There are FAQs and a Knowledge Base here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/faq/
https://support.wordfence.com/support/home

Great to hear! My setup was very similar to yours, all the way down to a real hard drive.

I wanted it for testing and development, but found that it was taking 7-15 seconds of 100% CPU just to get any response (click) on an Admin panel due to the heavy amount of PHP and MySQL processing that was going on.

Initial tests indicated that it would have worked fine with caching as a production web site. It was just Admin that was killing me.

I originally wrote this plugin, that should do what you want, on a single site:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/
It provides a wide array of URL selection options.

I no longer am able to support it, but it has been adopted and the new owner does provide Support.

Only part that worries me is “serve up the same catalog”, so that is what I think you would want to investigate first, in the following solution: use WordPress Multisite (a “Network”) defined as Subdomains, but using a Plugin to make each Subdomain a separate domain name: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

index.php is the file being hit, but the text is from the WordPress database, likely MySQL in your base.

I installed WordPress on my Raspberry Pi but the response time for Admin panels was just too slow to be usable. Hope that you have better luck.

WordPress is a Content Management System, with the textual comment mostly in a database and images from files, mostly in the wp-content folder.