Title: Admin Panel Not Functioning
Last modified: December 18, 2020

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# Admin Panel Not Functioning

 *  [bstreet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bstreet/)
 * (@bstreet)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-panel-not-functioning/)
 * I am new to all of this so please excuse the ignorance but everything was running
   fine and the site itself seems to be running fine. The issue is the admin panel,
   I can’t activate plugins, or deactivate them, delete them, create new pages things
   like that. In cPanel I deleted a plugin folder to get rid of it and it is still
   on the admin page. Browser cache has been deleted I just need a push in the right
   direction, please. I have 2 sites and have no issues with the first one.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadmin-panel-not-functioning%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [sallyinstc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sallyinstc/)
 * (@sallyinstc)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-panel-not-functioning/#post-13808986)
 * Do you have a backup of the site from before the problem? If so, I’d restore 
   from there. Also, if you have a sandbox copy you should make major changes there
   then move them over to live.
 *  Thread Starter [bstreet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bstreet/)
 * (@bstreet)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-panel-not-functioning/#post-13810801)
 * I’ll have to see about the backup, I was using Duplicator but I don’t see a way
   to restore it in the free version. Do I need the Duplicator plugin to restore?
   Unfortunately, I was using a staging site that comes with the Bluehost hosting
   and that is when the problems started. It would default to the staging site but
   access to that area would disappear.
 *  Thread Starter [bstreet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bstreet/)
 * (@bstreet)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-panel-not-functioning/#post-13813964)
 * So I went through the process to restore using Duplicator, I cleared out all 
   contents of the root then I copied the installer php file and the zip file to
   the root. Ran the php from a browser and had a bunch of errors. So I thought 
   that since I really don’t have a bunch of time in this that I would start over.
   Went into Cpanel and used the Softaculous app to uninstall the WordPress site
   then I did a new install. So can anyone tell me why I still see the same plugins
   from the old site in the admin panel? They are not in the root of my site in 
   Cpanel? None of them function, when I select them they say Sorry, you are not
   allowed to access this page or the link you followed has expired.

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 * Last reply from: [bstreet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bstreet/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-panel-not-functioning/#post-13813964)
 * Status: not resolved

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