jon

My personal experience has led me to stick to the Twenty series of Themes because they are so well supported by WordPress. And I know that they will work long into the future.

Twenty Fourteen has a menu bar at the top, for example. Twenty Seventeen has the newest type of appearance. And Twenty Ten has remained the preference of one of my site admins, surprisingly looking better on a smartphone than Twenty Eleven.

I’ve used all of them at one time or another. It is important to work through the Appearance section of the Admin panels, especially Menus and Widgets, to get exactly the menus you want, where you want.

Pardon my ignorance on your “content below the fold” issue.

But my preference remains to work my way through all the Twenty themes, and all of their options, before exploring any other Themes. Mainly, because I really want to avoid future Support issues.

It has been over two weeks that I’ve been waiting, but I kind of expected that since I am using a $1/month unlimited disk shared hosting account, with support from a country with extremely low wages for Support people.

I really think you should open a ticket with your hosting company. Here is what worked for me (I created some sample .php and .html files for them):

http://111.111.111.111/~account/test2.php gives “Not Supported” error, but http://domain.ext/test2.php works properly. For some reason, PHP does not work with the temporary URL supplied by {host name}.

In case it helps, http://111.111.111.111/~account/phpinfo.php is another example, and http://111.111.111.111/~account/test1.html shows that HTML does work properly.

I would like to have the temporary URL working for test and emergency purposes. Thank you in advance.

Good luck with it!

I just ran into the same problem with a new hosting company that I was trying out.

The problem had nothing to do with WordPress, but was a hosting issue: first level support says it is an Apache configuration problem, but second level support hasn’t fixed it yet.

Way to see if you have the same problem is to create an empty php file — I called mine empty.php — and go to it from your browser: http://111.111.111.111/~account/empty.php

If you get Not Supported on a white screen, talk to your hosting company’s support folks.

Again, to clarify, this only happens for me on the temporary URL, not from any domain pointing to the hosting account.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by jon. Reason: clarify

Best that you re-post your question here:
http://zatzlabs.com/forums/forum/multiple-themes/

As explained here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/

IMPORTANT: Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org forums. Please visit the new ZATZLabs Forums. If you need a timely reply from the developer, please open a ticket.

@patbell101: I’m afraid that discussions of hosting too often turn into a spamming session, so I am not allowed to name names of hosting companies here.

I will say though that, if you want to go with a VPS, 2GM of RAM is a good minimum to stick with for a WordPress site.

Sorry, but I did not read the blog from 2012 you linked to until now. The plugin referenced https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-abstraction/ has not been updated in five years, and very likely does not work with current versions of WordPress.

Two years is considered an eternity in the life of WordPress. Many plugins that have not been updated in two years or more do not work with current versions of WordPress. Which is why there is a warning in the plugin directory for all such plugins. Including this one.

I am the original author, and I don’t recall any issues with multisite installations. But memory fades, especially since I generally advised people to reorganize their site to use Multisite to get around any issues I could not solve with the Multiple Themes plugin. In other words, splitting a site into two multisite sites, but making it look like one site to the visitor.

I’m not in a position to support the plugin, but it has been adopted out, almost two years ago, to someone who can support it. You will, however, have to use his support forum. Details are here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-support-for-multiple-themes-has-moved/

A few years back, when I first started using VPS hosting, I ran into all sorts of nasty problems like the ones you describe. Since then, I’ve realized that my problems all stemmed from one thing: lack of RAM.

I now monitor RAM carefully and have a VPS with 2GB RAM and 4GB paging file. My monitoring indicates that I often use over 1GB (not counting Linux caching) even though all my web sites are low usage.