The short answer is yes. WordPress does go into maintenance mode when updates are are installed. You have nothing to worry about. This is default behavior. I do know that there are sometimes issues where WordPress gets stuck in maintenance mode after updates, but if you don’t experence such issues, you are good to go … Read more
Setting maintenance mode via REST API
If it’s a one-time maintenance issue then run the code manually at a time you chose. If it’s a periodic maintenance task that might be heavy, use unix cron. Otherwise, wp-cron can be used. You’re probably using it more than you know already. This plugin is great for monitoring wp-cron.
You should be able to simply check the capabilities of the currently logged in user. If they’re an administrator the following example should do what you want it to. Just add this into your theme’s functions.php file. Please note this code is untested, but it should get you where you want to be. If the … Read more
Since you are using the W3 total cache plugin, So The HTML code will be cached in the wp-content/cache folder. So Delete Cache folder from wp-content directory. Now remove the function activate_maintenance_mode() and check the site now… If the problem exists , Delete the W3 total Cache Constant from wp-config.php and clear your browser data … Read more
How to clear the “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” message after doing automatic upgrade? As part of the automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in the blog base folder (folder that contains the wp-admin folder). If that file exists, then vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in … Read more
Sure, just upload them to their directories with ftp. After all, updating themes is not much more than copying the files. If you update the active theme in this way, some unexpected results may occur for pages that are generated halway the uploading, part by the old theme, part by the new theme.
It is not recommended in any way to maintain a website on the 4.9.9 WordPress release to support legacy code that is poorly written. Although some of the security patches may be backported, scriptbots will target your website seeking out known exploits to access user data. According to WordPress: “The only current officially supported version … Read more
You should troubleshoot your website for plugins. As you are unable to access your WordPress admin area so please try to access your file manager in cPanel or access public_html directory via FTP. Go to wp-content/ Directory them rename plugins/ directory to pluginsbackup/ now try to load your site. If this works that means you … Read more
That table is from the redirection plugin, and isn’t a part of WordPress Core. Deleting it should have no ill effects as long as you disable the plugin too. If you wish to continue using that plugin though, I recommend using the plugin authors support at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/