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Have you tried:
– Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches.
– deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
– If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder (if you have created such folder). The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
– If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the unedited default Twenty Fifteen theme for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins). If you don’t have access to your admin area, use FTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder by adding “-old” to the end of the folder name. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.
I tried to go back to do it again all I got was the Maintenance message on the white screen.
Something else you might take a look at as well… I’ve seen this happen once or twice when server resources got bogged down in the middle of an update for some reason. If the Maintenance message is still stuck on your front page, you can take a look at your WordPress files using your FTP client or the file manager in your hosts control panel. You will need to turn on the “show hidden files” feature, and look for a file named .maintenance (note the dot). If it’s there, try deleting it and see if that brings your site back up.
Yes! That fixed it! Thank you!
A lucky guess on that one. Glad it worked!
