Resolve "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance" error in Wordpress
Published: Dec 27, 2023
Cause - happens when a plugin update gets ‘stuck’ or when trying to update multiple plugins at the same time in WordPress. If it doesn’t go away:
- SSH to the server (or FTP)
- Navigate to the web root directory. Its /var/www/html for Apache and Nginx generally.
- Navigate to the root folder of the website as you might have more than one website running.
- Find and delete the file called “.maintenance”. (rm foobar)
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