My wordpress dashboard showing notifications for while about new updates of some of the plug-ins I use. Since the updates are for important plug-ins I decided to install them. The moment I select the plug-ins and upgrade, the dashboard started showing the message that entering maintenance mode and upgrading the plug-ins. I thought it is expected and left the window like that and searching in google for something else. After sometime, I accessed my blog URL and it gave me a message that “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”. I waited for some more time but no change in status. It didn’t took me much time to realize that some thing has screwed my blog. Surprisingly the dashboard also not available and throwing same message.
I googled about this error and understood that it is a sort of bug with WordPress which leaves website in maintenance mode while upgrading the plug-ins. The solution to this problem is as follows…
- Connect to your site using FTP. I prefer using some rich clients than using ftp from command line. My favorite is FileZilla
- Go to the WP installation directory where you will find wp-admin, wp-content folders.
- Locate .maintenance file and delete
- Access your website now and it should be back. So did mine.
Many analysis are saying that Adsence blocks placed in middle of blogger post performing well and earning good amounts to the bloggers. To fill my pockets as well, I tried placing the adsense block after reading one blog post entry and in vain, I tried several other also…still failed. I have read many posts from other bloggers about placing Adsence advertisement in middle of post but none of them worked straight forward — I think they are stale. After some struggle, I could able to sort-out the process.
So, follow the below steps if you want to see adsense blocks in middle of your post.
- Prepare your adsense code — Get adsense code from your adsense account and convert it using
blog-ad-converter to make it compatible with CSS.
- Logon to blogger and select the layout option and from there “edit HTML” option.
- Very important step here is to backup your template. Don’t miss to do this as it saves your time in case if you want to revert (who knows, my procedure also might fail for you)
- Select the check box “Expand widget template” and search for the tag “<data:post.body/>” and replace with below code.
<div expr:id=’”aim1″ + data:post.id’></div>
<div style=”clear:both; margin:10px 0″>
<!– Remove this line and place your Your converted AdSense code here –>
</div>
<div expr:id=’”aim2″ + data:post.id’>
<data:post.body/>
</div>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var obj0=document.getElementById(“aim1<data:post.id/>”);
var obj1=document.getElementById(“aim2<data:post.id/>”);
var s=obj1.innerHTML;
var r=s.search(/x3C!– adsense –x3E/igm);
if(r>0) {obj0.innerHTML=s.substr(0,r);obj1.innerHTML=s.substr(r+16);}
</script>
- Save your template and check your blog. It should display the ads now.
Enjoy and Happy blogging…
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Many newbies don’t like the option of navbar in their blogspot.com. I too agree that blog will look ugly if navbar is present.
Follow the below steps if you want to remove navbar.
- Logon to blogger.com with your ID
- Click of layout option of your blog and choose “edit HTML” option inside that.
- Place the below piece of code before the <body> tag like shown below.
#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}
This completes the task and enjoy navbar less blog 
