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WordPress maintenance mode plugins and when to use one
A WordPress maintenance mode plugin puts up a holding page that stays until you switch it off. Core WordPress has its own maintenance screen, which it creates during updates. The two work separately and need different fixes. Choose a plugin for the job you have, then check the HTTP status visitors get as well as the page they see.
· SiteSelf
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Fix WordPress permalinks that are not working
When WordPress permalinks stop working, either WordPress’s stored rewrite rules are stale or the web server never passes the request to WordPress. Saving Settings → Permalinks fixes the first case in seconds. It does nothing for the second, and changing your URL structure to make the 404s go away usually creates a bigger problem.
· SiteSelf
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503 response code on WordPress and what it means
A 503 response code means a server is temporarily refusing requests. It doesn’t tell you which server or why. On WordPress the same code can come from core during an update, a maintenance plugin, exhausted PHP workers, a firewall rule or a CDN passing on an error, so read the headers and the scope before you change anything.
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