Maintenance Mode – WordPress plugin

Maintenance Mode wordpress plugin allows you to add custom maintenance messages in your wordpress site. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog and visitors will see the custom maintenance message.

1. Download Maintenance Mode wordpress plugin. Download link.

2. Unzip and upload it to your WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.

3. Login to wp-admin. In your admin dashboard click plugins and activate the Maintenance Mode wordpress plugin.

4. Then go to settings menu and click Maintenance Mode.

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How to fix “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

The core automatic upgrade feature in worddpress was added with version 2.7. During the automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in the blog root folder. In that time the vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. If your automatic upgrade process failed and your site still shows the “vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message.just delete the .maintenance file.

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