Stuck in Maintenance mode while adding new plugin

  • I recently tried completing a long pending update of Wordfence and EWWW Image Optimizer together after which my site crashed. Having prior experience of dealing with this issue, I deleted the plugins from my cpanel.

    Since then I am having the following issues,

    • Getting the “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”
      error whenever I am trying to go to the “Add a plugin” section from my WordPress dashboard.
    • Crashing when I am trying to view installed plugins.
    • Crashing whenever I am trying to go to the updates section.
    • Admin section crashing randomly (I am not sure whether this is related), forcing me to re-login.

    All other admin functionalities normal.

    My Host: Bluehost India

    My Blog: The Crimson Beauty

    I have already tried the following and failed

    • No “.maintenance” file found via cpanel (I remembered to unhide all files)
    • I tried creating a “.maintenance” file and deleted it

    Other information that may be of use:

    • The blog is integrated with Cloudflare.
    • I have W3 Total Cache, WP Optimize and Yoast SEO installed.
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  • Hi @subhaprasad91,
    I think, what you can do is just take a back up of the recent updated plugins “Wordfence and EWWW Image” as you have mentioned either from the cpanel or ftp and then delete the plugins from the site.
    The site will start to run as prior to the update.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter subhaprasad91

    (@subhaprasad91)

    Hi Shobhit,

    Thanks for replying. Should I back up right now? Actually I no longer have those plugins as I deleted them from the plugins folder of wp-content. I had previously backed up using Updraft but I am a bit concerned whether restoring that will work.

    Hi again,
    If you have already deleted the plugins that you had updated, isn’t your site working fine still?

    Thread Starter subhaprasad91

    (@subhaprasad91)

    Hi Shobhit,

    This is strange actually. I have deleted the plugins and I can’t find the “.maintenance” file. This is giving me a lot of trouble. It will be very kind of you if you could help me out with this.

    Hello @subhaprasad91,
    Please try to rename the plugins folder via ftp. Make it something like this: “_plugins” and then try to run your site.
    Tell if this doesn’t work for you!

    Thanks!

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