Title: WP MULTISITE Network Activate
Last modified: November 11, 2016

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# WP MULTISITE Network Activate

 *  Resolved [birdog123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog123/)
 * (@birdog123)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-network-activate/)
 * Hi,
 * I have had this Network activated for some time now (many months). All of a sudden,
   it applies the maintenance.php on its own without warning. I just Network deactivated
   and it stopped doing that.
 * Can you look into the code to be sure it plays nice when WP MULTISITE has this
   network activated?
 * Is it Network friendly or should we only enable it per subsite without network
   activating?
 * 🙂

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 *  Plugin Author [Fugu Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fugudesign/)
 * (@fugudesign)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-network-activate/#post-8426833)
 * Hi birdog123,
 * First, thank you for using this plugin and for your feedback.
 * I have tried to write this plugin in the WordPress spirit as much as possible.
   I use the core maintenance mode, with a .maintenance file created at the root
   folder of the WordPress installation.
    This principle is not friendly with a 
   per subsite activation.
 * To this day, I do not believe if there is a workaround but I will search about
   it and keep you informed if I find.
 * Best regards
 *  Thread Starter [birdog123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog123/)
 * (@birdog123)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-network-activate/#post-8427614)
 * Hey folks,
 * Cool on that . . . with it doing well on subsites activated (your researching
   it). Thanks.
 * But, the problem actually was, too, when the plugin is Network Activated it applies
   the maintenance.php without notice and causes the maintenance page to randomly
   show on different subsites and the primary site. It just started doing this (
   so far that I noticed).
 * So, I had to totally deactivate it (as far a Network Deactivating it). I have
   tried a few subsites that have it on per subsite now but, of course, per subsite(
   even enabled) does not seem to work (which goes along with your last post). When
   enabling a subsite, it puts all sites and primary into that subsite maintenance
   mode.
 * Just giving you more context . . .
 * Let me know . .
 * 🙂
 * Greg
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [birdog123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog123/).
 *  Thread Starter [birdog123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog123/)
 * (@birdog123)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-network-activate/#post-8682455)
 * Hey there…
 * Just circling back to see if you may have found a solution on this so it is safe
   to use on subsites of a WP Multisite yet?
 * 🙂
 * Greg

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-network-activate/#post-8682455)
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