Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute – How to Solve WordPress

September 20, 2013

In this article, I’m going to show you that how to resolve this error in WordPress: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” if you are facing this error you may read the entire article about solving this error. Let me tell you about the error a little bit more. By the way, this error occurs during the WordPress automatic upgrade, the WordPress automatically display this error when we try to access the homepage/posts of our website Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

How to Solve this Error?

It’s pretty easy to solve this error, all you need to do is to delete a file from your domain root directory public_html/www.yoursite.com/.maintenance file, it automatically occur in your blog root directory during WordPress automatic upgrade. If this file still exists in your blog root directory the maintenance message will be displayed due to this. The file should not be there by the way…

Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute
Muhammad Dilawar
Muhammad Dilawar
Muhammad Dilawar is a WordPress developer and technical SEO specialist with over 12 years of experience building, optimizing, and maintaining websites. He specializes in WordPress, WooCommerce, server optimization, DNS, Cloudflare, website security, and performance improvements. Through Softstribe, he shares practical guides, tutorials, and industry insights based on real-world experience helping businesses grow their online presence.
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