Title: Does WordPress load theme before maintenance mode?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Does WordPress load theme before maintenance mode?

 *  Resolved [stode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stode/)
 * (@stode)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-load-theme-before-maintenance-mode/)
 * When I put wordpress into maintenance mode it seems that WP is trying to load
   my theme before that. Is that so?
 * Please if you are enlightened on this. Share you’re knowledge!
 * I discovered this as my theme was including (PHP include) stuff in header.php
   that was on different server and than that server went non-responsive and then
   the site hang on that include. But even when I was on maintenance-mode it still
   loaded very long.
 * But as the server the include came to header.php came responsive again also the
   maintenance mode page loaded quickly.

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 *  Thread Starter [stode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stode/)
 * (@stode)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-load-theme-before-maintenance-mode/#post-3152795)
 * Looking at the WP core; no it does not. **But** I had the .maintenance (file)
   to allow a check if user is logged in. That caused a failure where the maintenance
   mode was not directly entered and thus caused some problems.

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