Title: Fatal Error Activating on WordPress Multisite
Last modified: June 26, 2017

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# Fatal Error Activating on WordPress Multisite

 *  [sitesbyjamesday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sitesbyjamesday/)
 * (@sitesbyjamesday)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-activating-on-wordpress-multisite/)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for your hard work I love WooCommerce!
 * I’m importing my site that uses woocommerce to my multisite installation and 
   I need to install the plugin. I’m getting this error.
 * “Fatal error: Access level to WC_Background_Emailer::task() must be public (as
   in class WP_Background_Process) in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/
   plugins/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-background-emailer.php on line 0″
 * I tried changing this line of code:
 * ” protected function task( $callback ) {”
    to ” public function task( $callback){”
 * And received 500 errors on the site.
 * Do you have any suggestions of what I can try to fix this error? (It’s critical
   for me for moving forward.)
 * Thank you for any and all of your help!
    -James Day

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

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 * Last reply from: [sitesbyjamesday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sitesbyjamesday/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-activating-on-wordpress-multisite/)
 * Status: not resolved