Title: WordPress/plugin updates hanging
Last modified: June 7, 2017

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# WordPress/plugin updates hanging

 *  [rebecca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccayoung/)
 * (@rebeccayoung)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressplugin-updates-hanging/)
 * Hi! I’ve encountered this particular problem before, and was advised to perform
   a manual update of WordPress. This ‘sort of’ resolved the issue at the time –
   after this it seemed to eventually correct itself on its own.
 * I’m now encountering the problem on a different site. WordPress version updates
   and plugin updates theoretically work fine – but the update page itself doesn’t
   properly complete, instead hanging at the ‘Updating…’ message. However, when 
   I open the site in a new tab, it is **not** in maintenance mode, and updates 
   seem to have processed as expected.
 * I have once again just performed a manual update, but am still having the issue.
   Any suggestions for possible causes would be very much appreciated!
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by [rebecca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccayoung/).

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 *  Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/)
 * (@jcastaneda)
 * THEME COFFEE MONKEY
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressplugin-updates-hanging/#post-9207527)
 * Hi there [@rebeccayoung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccayoung/)
 * That is weird.
 * Does it happen on different browsers? Different operating systems? I’m just sort
   of spit-balling things right now since that is what came to mind first.
 * Is is on any plugin update or just specific ones?
 *  Thread Starter [rebecca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccayoung/)
 * (@rebeccayoung)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressplugin-updates-hanging/#post-9209622)
 * Hi Jose, thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately I don’t have another
   operating system to test it on, but have just attempted the WordPress 4.8 update
   in Firefox (I usually use Chrome) and am still having issues. This time the update
   page hangs on ‘Unpacking the update’, and the site is in maintenance mode (I’ll
   now remove the .maintenance file via FTP, of course).
 * The issue seems to affect all plugin updates.
 * Thank you again!
 *  Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/)
 * (@jcastaneda)
 * THEME COFFEE MONKEY
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressplugin-updates-hanging/#post-9210238)
 * Ah, interesting that it is plugins.
 * It could very well be the host. Are you able to create a random test site?

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## Tags

 * [plugin updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-updates/)
 * [wordpress updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-updates/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressplugin-updates-hanging/#post-9210238)
 * Status: not resolved

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