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Are you a fan of wordpress? yes we do! here are some tips i have encountered when updating my plugins and suddenly the update script was interrupted or the server has slow response.

If that happens, what you will get is “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” error message.

Isn’t this normal when updating plugins? yes it is normal when updating your plugins but what is not normal is when you stuck up there forever!

The simple solution to this is delete the temporary file that generates every time we update the plugins in your wordpress root directory.

  1. Login to your root web directory where your wordpress core installation.
  2. you’ll find this file
  3. .maintenance
  4. Delete them, refresh your page and your’re done!