Have you got the message “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute“. Well, It is far too common with wordpress 3.0 if you are using mass updater and if the update fails.
WordPress puts your site to maintinence mode while you use mass updater and if the update fails(or one of the update fails) wordpress does not put back the site to live mode and making everything practically inaccesible
There is an easy workaround.
Check the folder in which wordpress is installed and look for a file called .maintinence. Once you locate it, just delete it and your site will be back to normal.
I believe the mass plugin updater is a welcome addition but leaving the site in maintenance mode when update fails is not a good thing. Anyway, that’s my opinion. What do you think of it? Have you faced the similar problem. If yes, what was your workaround, I would love to hear from you.
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[...] One of the big things we’ve always done is recommend you do not do the auto upgrade of your site for 3.0. However many do use this and that’s cool but sometimes things go wrong. Brajesh though has an article that may help you ‘WordPress 3.0 and the problem with mass updates fail’. [...]