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  • I was doing my regular updating rounds, saw there were a few plugins that needed to be updated, and clicked update all. When my dashboard refreshed, all that I saw was a blank page with the words “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

    It’s been 10 minutes and it’s still showing that. Is this normal, or did the plugin update break something? What should I do now? I can’t access my dashboard or site at all.

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  • It is possible the update for one or more of the plugins broke something.

    You can disable your plugins, and test them one by one to see which ones are offending.

    Quick way to disable plugins, if you can log in with FTP to see your folders and files.
    (Some hosting companies have ‘File Manager’ in the control panel of their account – will work the same)

    Go to wp-content > wp-plugins

    Rename wp-plugins folder as wp-plugins1

    Try refresh your site.

    If you can see everything up and running again, rename the wp-plugins1 folder back to wp-plugins.

    You can then go to Dashboard > Plugins and test plugins one by one.

    Let me know how you get on.

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