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When updating your WordPress website, your site will briefly go into maintenance mode and will display a message to visitors like this:
But sometimes that message won’t go away and your site is stuck. Luckily it’s quite easy to solve.
/public_html
or /htdocs
(though not always).maintenance
and delete it.
that proceeds the filename indicates a hidden file to some web hosting systems so you may need to select ‘Display hidden files’ under your File Manager settingsThis issue is exactly the kind of thing we fix everyday with our fixed price WordPress fix.