Site stays in maintenance mode after plugin removal
Disabling or uninstalling the plugin leaves visitors stuck on the maintenance page or a server error.
8 public reports · first reported 12 June 2014 · last reported 4 May 2023
What's going wrong
Site owners of this WordPress plugin report that after they disable or uninstall it, the public site keeps showing the maintenance page, or in worse cases returns server errors and stays broken. Some could not reach their admin area and had to fix things through FTP or a hosting control panel. Others found that clearing caches changed nothing, and one said the page stayed up even after the plugin files were deleted. People who used it on sites about to launch were hit hardest. A recovery service that restores the normal site after removal, along with a clear checklist for owners, would solve a problem that currently forces urgent help requests.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Smart Maintenance Mode.
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Who has this problem
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