Title: Stuck in Maintenance mode while adding new plugin
Last modified: October 14, 2016

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# Stuck in Maintenance mode while adding new plugin

 *  [subhaprasad91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subhaprasad91/)
 * (@subhaprasad91)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/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](http://www.thecrimsonbeauty.com)
 * **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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 *  [Adarsh Verma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shobhit2412/)
 * (@shobhit2412)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8298645)
 * Hi [@subhaprasad91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subhaprasad91/)
 * (@subhaprasad91)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8299281)
 * 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.
 *  [Adarsh Verma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shobhit2412/)
 * (@shobhit2412)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8301892)
 * Hi again,
    If you have already deleted the plugins that you had updated, isn’t
   your site working fine still?
 *  Thread Starter [subhaprasad91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subhaprasad91/)
 * (@subhaprasad91)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8301909)
 * 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.
 *  [Adarsh Verma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shobhit2412/)
 * (@shobhit2412)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8301917)
 * Hello [@subhaprasad91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Adarsh Verma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shobhit2412/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-maintenance-mode-while-adding-new-plugin/#post-8301917)
 * Status: not resolved

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