Title: [Plugin: WP Maintenance Mode] Critical Flash Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Maintenance Mode] Critical Flash Problem

 *  Resolved [kf4tvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kf4tvi/)
 * (@kf4tvi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-maintenance-mode-critical-flash-problem/)
 * With regards to the “wp-maintenance-mode” plugin – I have successfully used this
   plugin for a year or more using the built-in static themes, however when attempting
   to use the built in theme titled “Animate (Flash)” for the maintenance mode splash
   page on one of my sites, the animation never appears and/or fails to load completely(
   I checked using the latest versions of IE, FF, Chrome, and Safari browsers.),
   and then the server became overloaded. This caused a TOS violation since I am
   on a shared server and my site was pulled down by my hosting company.
 * The plugin does appear to work properly when using the other built in themes 
   though, however many monitoring services will show your site as down when in 
   maintenance mode.

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 *  [MandyWhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mandywhite/)
 * (@mandywhite)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-maintenance-mode-critical-flash-problem/#post-1846788)
 * Did this happen with the most recent version of the plug-in? It was updated two
   days before you made this post. I experienced your problem with the other version
   but, if I recall correctly, I never tried the themes. If I did try any of them,
   I’m pretty sure I would not have picked a Flash based theme. I remember I enabled
   it and it locked up the whole server. Based on the logs, it went into an endless
   loop of recursion when the first guest attempted to load the site (viewing it
   as admin didn’t cause the error to trigger). When it was triggered, it locked
   up the network and made the entire server unavailable until it was reset. However,
   the issue is no longer occuring with the current plugin version. I just tried
   the Flash template too, as well as a few others with different settings, and 
   it worked perfectly, without any errors.
 * Kudos to the developer for fixing the recursion bug. It’s an awesome plugin for
   a much needed feature. I only wish I knew of plugins like this back when Netsols
   servers were hacked and exploited via WordPress a few months ago. Having this
   feature included by default, would have saved 1,000s of sites from continuing
   to spread the hacker’s worm if only they could have closed their blogs on Netsol’s
   shared servers during the file clean-up process.
 *  Thread Starter [kf4tvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kf4tvi/)
 * (@kf4tvi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-maintenance-mode-critical-flash-problem/#post-1846828)
 * [@mandywhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mandywhite/) – I was using 
   version 1.6.6 when the problem arose (Jan4). I installed version 1.6.7 that day(
   Jan5), when it was pushed to the WP repository and yes everything seems to work
   properly now.
 * And I agree, kudos to the developer for staying on top of things and continuing
   to update this useful plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [kf4tvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kf4tvi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-maintenance-mode-critical-flash-problem/#post-1846828)
 * Status: resolved