For many programmers, Flutter has finally alleviated a persistent problem. It used to be the case that developers who wanted to distribute their apps on both the App Store and the Play Market had to duplicate their efforts by making two distinct versions of their apps. Furthermore, they had to deal with the hassle of managing two independent code sets.

Yesterday when I was updating one of my WordPress blogs the automatic update failed and was stuck in maintenance mode. What to do when this happens? First of all, don’t panic! Your blog is not lost for ever, or anything like that. Even if you haven’t backed up your blog’s files and its database (like recommended by WordPress), it is still possible to fix the update fail issue in a few easy steps. Of course if you had backed up your files and database then you could simply restore them and try an automatic update again. In fact some web hosts will regularly backup everything for you. They also have…