Updating Plugin causes website to go into maintenance loop!

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  • Michael Torbert

    (@hallsofmontezuma)

    WordPress Virtuoso

    There was an issue to day where the update servers for www.ads-software.com had a delay with plugin updates… That may be causing this. Try deactivating and deactivating the plugin. If that doesn’t help, try deleting the plugin and reinstalling it.

    Thread Starter sachristan

    (@sachristan)

    Thanks!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    The maintenance mode is a WordPress core thing. Basically, when an upgrade starts, it creates a .maintenance file on the server which temporarily disables the site. That file is deleted when the upgrade is complete.

    If your site is having general timeouts during the upgrade or something like that (if the upgrade takes too long, for example), then the site will be “stuck” in maintenance mode, but only for 10 minutes. See, the .maintenance file contains a time in it, and at that time, WordPress will automatically ignore the file instead of staying in maintenance mode.

    If you have this happen and want to clear it immediately, simply access your site via your hosting file system panel or via FTP or SSH, and delete the .maintenance file.

    Note that no specific plugin can “trigger” this to happen, really. It’s just a timeout issue, generally.

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