Can’t See My Wordpress Plugins
Fregquently I get questions about wordpress plugins. The biggest question is something like this:
Thanks for the good solid information you provide on the VDO. I encounter one problem. After I upload the suggested plugins, WordPress can not see them. So, I can not activate and make use of them. I tried to find the answer on Google but can not still. Do you have any suggestion?
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Answer
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I highly recommend a Wordpress Blogging course called Blog With Success
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The first question I would ask is….did the plug in really get uploaded, or perhaps the wp-content folder or plugin folder did not get installed…in the first case there was a corrupted upload if you can’t see the plug in on the server side….if one of the last 2 situations occured then the initial wordpress installation was probably corrupt
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I’m assuming you used an ftp program like “filezilla” to upload your plugins?
If you look on the server site or Remote Site try looking into the folder your blog is in, then click on wp-content and then you’ll see a folder named plugins, look in this folder for your plugins, each plugin should be in its own folder.
root folder ——-> blog folder —-> wp-content folder —-> plugins folder —-> folders with plugins
Then make sure you follow the instructions for each plug in and make sure the permissions (chmod) for each folder or file are correctly set.
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Put first check to and make sure you can see the plug in on the server for your website.
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Don’t forget…..I found an excellent course, actually it’s almost like a membership called Blog With Success that is loaded with videos, ebooks and other resources that will help you get started and excell with your Wordpress Blogs.
Hope that helps
Scott
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My site’s a work in progress – cleaning up years of mess & finding the right elements to use w/Wordpress. I’ve been experimenting with plugins & themes to see what is a good fit for what I’m wanting to do. I’m very new at this and there’s still a lot of work to do in what little spare time I have!
I think I might have an answer for people for when their plugins can’t be seen.
I found that when I extracted some folders, a “shell folder” with the same name housed another folder with the same name that had all the content for the plugin. This doesn’t happen all the time, though, which puzzles me. If you just upload that folder without checking inside to see if it’s a “shell”, the plugin is “invisible” to wordpress because when it opens the content folder, it can’t go anywhere else – there’s another content folder!
Now I check all the folders before uploading. If there’s a content folder inside, I just extract that folder, leaving the “shell” behind. This fixed my problem.
For those plugins already uploaded, I went in, moved the inside folder to the themes and deleted the outside folder. Wordpress could then use the content. Sometimes I had to change the name of the outside folder so that the two could co-exist, but it saved me oodles of time & work and got my plugins to work.
NOW for the task of finding something for adding webconferencing ability and a few other goodies.
Good luck, and thank you for putting a way for newbies like me to learn.
L J
Hello Leslie. You were completely right! The trick is to eliminate the ” shell folder” and now wordpress can see the plug ins. Awesome post! Thank you!!