Resolve "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance" error in Wordpress
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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. It’s /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) 🎀