Title: Using on multisite subsites?
Last modified: June 22, 2019

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# Using on multisite subsites?

 *  [menathor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menathor/)
 * (@menathor)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/)
 * Hi guys!
 * This plugin was exactly what I was looking for, however I just noticed you mentioned
   it doesn’t work on multisite. Will you be adding multisite support? Would love
   to run this on our network.
 * In the mean time, could I activate it on individual child sites rather than network
   activating it?
 * Also, would it work in conjunction with this plugin? [https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/)
   I’d like to be able to resize the originals if they’re over a certain size to
   save on server space.
 * Thanks 🙂
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [menathor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menathor/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Takis Bouyouris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevma/)
 * (@nevma)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/#post-11671935)
 * Hello, my friend,
 * I am so sorry to disappoint you but the plugin does not support Multisite at 
   all. If something is actually supported in this respect it would be be sheer 
   coincidence!
 * As far as the Imsanity plugin is concerned, yes, there should be no conflict 
   with these two plugins because they operate on a completely different level. 
   Imsanity resizes your original images and afterwards, only when they are requested,
   Adaptive Images delivers them to the mobile devices resized according to screen
   size.
 * Cheers,
    Takis
 *  Thread Starter [menathor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menathor/)
 * (@menathor)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/#post-11674591)
 * Hi Takis,
 * Thanks for the quick reply. That’s a shame! Would adding custom nginx rewrites
   per child site be an option? Not sure how the plugin works exactly, but if it’s
   just rewriting image URLs and it does everything via normal WordPress hooks and
   functions, then activating it separately on each child site (instead of network
   activating it) might work. Just a thought…?
 * Cheers
 *  Plugin Author [Takis Bouyouris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevma/)
 * (@nevma)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/#post-11674735)
 * Hello, my friend,
 * Thank you for your feedback and it is indeed a good thought. My honest answer
   is that I indeed don’t know 🙂 not until I do some relatively thorough testing.
   This is on my list, but, unfortunately I am not there yet.
 * If that helps, I will try and explain a bit how the plugin works.
 * Now, when a web page load the plugin serves a bit of Javascript that sets a cookie
   on the user browser containing the size of the user’s screen. Then this cookie
   travels back and forth on any HTTP communication the browser does with the server.
 * When the browser requests an image by the server the plugin hijacks this requests
   and tries to deliver an as small as possible image to the browser. This decision
   is made by combining the plugin settings that the website admin has set and the
   device size.
 * The issue with Multisite would be on the way this hijacking is done. In a normal
   WordPress installation there is one `/wp-content/uploads` folder, but on a Multisite
   there are multiple ones. And, should one try to overcome this, they should take
   into account the htaccess files rewrites that are necessary as well as the PHP
   code to which these rewrites ultimately point to.
 * Cheers,
    Takis
 *  Thread Starter [menathor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menathor/)
 * (@menathor)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/#post-11675086)
 * Great, thanks Takis! I’ll experiment with it and let you know how it goes.
 *  Plugin Author [Takis Bouyouris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevma/)
 * (@nevma)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-on-multisite-subsites/#post-11675095)
 * Please, do, and if we can reach at a quick solution, then I would be more than
   happy to incorporate it to the core of the plugin!

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