Maintenance Error when accessing dashboard

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  capitalismandglitter · Member · Mar 21, 2013 at 6:47 pm

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  After downloading a plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/) I am no longer able to access the dashboard of my site. I am getting an error that says “We are performing some maintenance. Your dashboard is going to be unavailable for 4 hours.”

  I think I can resolve this by deleting the .maintenance file from the root directory, but I cannot seem to access that for some reason/

  Is there a way for me to delete that file or uninstall the plugin to allow me to access my dashboard again? If not, can you delete that .maintenace file on your end?

  I think I could resolve this by changing the theme as well since the plugin that caused this error was installed to that theme, but since I am locked out of the dashboard I cant even do that.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Mar 21, 2013 at 10:01 pm

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  Hi there!

  First, we don’t allow plugins on WordPress.com for security reasons. Plugins are a feature only available for self-hosted blogs provided through WordPress.org. You can find out more about this topic here: http://support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  However, we do have several built-in features that were inspired by many popular plugins. You might find what you want by searching for it at http://en.support.wordpress.com/

  For more information on the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, please see: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Second, if this is related to your http://capitalismandglitter.com/ site, we are aware of the dashboard issue and please see this thread for all updates:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-error-1