Site update sticks with “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” or “The website is undergoing scheduled maintenance” message.
Connect using FTP and delete the .maintenance file in the root directory.
Other checks
Are you sure the message being shown isn’t your own dummy message for a site you’ve haven’t finished creating yet?!!
The wordpress updates Page
This is the URL for the updates page
http://mysite.com/wp-admin/update-core.php
USEFUL?
We benefit hugely from resources on the web so we decided we should try and give back some of our knowledge and resources to the community by opening up many of our company’s internal notes and libraries through mini sites like this. We hope you find the site helpful.
Please feel free to comment if you can add help to this page or point out issues and solutions you have found, but please note that we do not provide support on this site. If you need help with a problem please use one of the many online forums.