I guess, something wrong happened during WordPress or an active plugin or the active theme update. Maybe connection loss or interruption. Have a look at WordPress root directory. If the (hidden) file named .maintenance exists, then safely remove it. It’s the temporary file used by WordPress for few minutes until the update process is finished. … Read more
How to programmatically put wordpress in maintenance mode
For such maintenance mode, I found the following plugin a better one (with currently rated a 4.1 on 5): Easy Maintenance Mode — WordPress Plugins It’s a good one, and the screenshots are there to describe its look and functionality. It’ll create a maintenance banner foo all other users except the Admin. It’s has a … Read more
As you have already pointed out there is no right answer to this but here is how I deal with WP sites after they are done. When building a WP site for a client, through the whole process we make them aware of our aftersales support. Our support has different levels with the levels giving … 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
It could be easily done by creating .maintenance file in the root of your WordPress instance. Your script should look like this: // create maintenance file before starting the long lasting process file_put_contents( ABSPATH . ‘.maintenance’, ‘<?php $upgrading = ‘ . time() . ‘;’ ); // do stuff … // after finishing working on your … Read more
WordPress creates a .maintenance file during the update process which indicates that your site is in the maintenance mode. Unless this file is removed your site will remain in the maintenance mode and your users will continue to see the notification. Once you have updated WordPress, all you have to do is delete .maintenance file … Read more
WordPress has an embedded feature for handling maintenance mode. When you upgrade a plugin, or WordPress core from WP dashboard, WordPress enters maintenance mode: it tries to load a file named maintenance.php located in the content folder (usually /wp-content), and if that file is not there, WP shows a default message. I suggest you use … Read more
Not really. .maintenance is a temporary file, not viable if you want to put your site in maintenance mode for a long time. If you look at source the maintenance mode is maintained only if $upgrading variable defined in the file is no older than 10 minutes. It means .maintenance is a sort of lock … Read more