Title: "PHP error message"?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# "PHP error message"?

 *  Resolved [GlacierMag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glaciermag/)
 * (@glaciermag)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-message-7/)
 * Hi! I’ve been using this plugin for a while without any issues. I went to update
   it today, and it took a very very long time. This has happened before, usually
   because WP has just frozen or something. I clicked again on the ‘updates’ button(
   which usually fixes the problem) and then got sent to a white screen with an 
   error message that said something like “Site down for unscheduled maintenance,
   please check back in a minute” (I’ve never seen this before).
 * I refreshed the page about five minutes later, and get a different error message.
   I’ll just link my website below so you can see it. I can’t access the main website,/
   wp-admin, or anything like that.
 * Any ideas on what to do here? I’m pretty worried that the site’s screwed for 
   good 🙁 thank you!
 * (Site URL – glaciermag.com)
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 *  Thread Starter [GlacierMag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glaciermag/)
 * (@glaciermag)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-message-7/#post-3221202)
 * (PS Unfortunately I really know nothing at all about this kind of stuff. If it’s
   clearly a problem with my host or something, just let me know and I’ll quietly
   back out of the room.)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-message-7/#post-3221211)
 * The “Site down for unscheduled maintenance, please check back in a minute” message
   can be displayed when updating plugins or WordPress itself. Usually an update
   takes only a few seconds so most users will not see the message.
 * The message you are seeing there is because something has gone wrong with the
   update and not all files were extracted from the zip archive correctly. This 
   could be a one off or a potential a bug in WordPress.
 * You will need to manually remove the plugin by deleting the directory from wp-
   content/plugins and then re-install it.

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 * [php-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-error/)

 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-message-7/#post-3221211)
 * Status: resolved