A new member joining your team Yes,it could take time for the team to warm up to him/her but dont let this be a reason to make them feel left out.Its important to get acquainted with the person and make them feel welcome and comfortable.Remember,you were also a newcomer at some point.Think about what all your team members did then to welcome you.Here are some points to heed.

Be helpful and friendly:

She/he is brand new so try and be as helpful as you can.And this is not only regarding work,but also things like showing them around the office,telling them about the way the team works,keeping them in the loop about meeting schedules,timings of the cafeteria,etc.Help them with the smaller issues so that they can comfortably settle into their new role.

Try not to compare:

If the new team member is replacing someone,especially one who was close to you,do not compare them.Remember,she/he is new and will take time to learn things.And if they dont meet your expectations,you are bound to start resenting them.Avoid that.

Do not feel threatened:

Just because the person is new,she/he isnt naturally a threat to your position,even if they are more educationally qualified.Also,she/he going over the call of duty should not be interpreted as trying to get into the bosses good books.Being new,they will obviously go the extra mile to make a good first impression.Instead of de-motivating or reprimanding them,help and train them to do things the right way.

Give them a fair chance:

Do not rush to conclusions about their ineffectiveness at the very first mistake.She/he is getting used to you and the team and vice verse.Yes,there will be habits that need getting used to but learn to be tolerant.More importantly,look for the positives in the new person and use them to help her/him fit into the team.

Today while updating a plugin, update window got stuck at following image,

Wordpress scheduled maintenance message

And I was not able to figure out why was it. Then I went back to the update page and saw the following message,

Enabling maintenance mode in wordpress

Here you can see the wordpress enables maintenance mode before pushing any update. But what if  update is not completed successfully?

If update does not happen successfully your page gets stuck on above image and your site shows message in first image.

How can you remove this annoying messages? After googling out I figured out wordpress creates a .maintenance page in the root directory where your wordpress is installed. You need to delete this file, which I did. After deleting the site was up again.

Wordpress maintenance file

But this happened everytime I tried to update that plugin. So I searched for place where wordpress was checking if it is in maintenance mode.

WordPress has a file called as “wp-settings.php” in the root directory. It has line of code that checks if maintenance mode is enabled. So just comment that line and wordpress will not go in maintenance mode again.

Bypass maintenance mode check in wordpress

It will show you the message enabling maintenance mode but still your site will be up.

Hope this helps.